Perfect example of what happens when a NON WHALE user follows a whale blindly. How quick those wanting to participate in a free, decentralized and open experiement start calling for authority.
Whales have decided to be judge jury and executioner on a system that is supposed to be a free, open and decentralized experiment. Without moderation... READ PEOPLE.
Whales can get away with being dicks... for now. They control content, who gets upvoted and who is excluded. All of the small fish here could gather together and they still would not have as much power as just one whale. Think about that.
Two things will happen in steemits future. A redistribution of power will either start to work its way across the userbase, or steemit will die from the lack of interest and hard feelings.
Whales get 20 votes, some worth as much as $2k or close. You think they are going to give those 20 votes to the general public? You can bet your ass everyone of their friends and family has posted here and made a shit ton of money. Get real people.
Anyways, I support your right to downvote me and others, just make sure you support our right to downvote you...
So I have a message in my recent replies, but I can't find it anywhere. Interested in the rest of it...
@williambanks Im open to help anyone who asks. I have three cats my bot posts in. Steemit, Steem and Introduceyourself.
Was there more there?
Also sorry for reaching out to you this way. Don't have many other options at the moment.
No.
Anyways,
No one cares about these conversations though, they want tits and ass and shell accounts. Which actually isnt a reflection of users but more whales. Users just follow the whales thinking they are somehow learning what it takes to become a whale
They dont realize that phase happened a good while ago and it had nothing to do with picking winners. I can show what 500 votes does to a single post if you arent a whale.... Nothing. Trending is essentially based off of money made since its the whales that put you on trending. Average user has no power here, none.
Steemit was a great idea with poor execution power ratio wise. It wont last long. This space moves too fast for the type of redistribution that needs to happen in order to make it interesting.
It will serve as the example from which other social ico's and others learn from. Sooner or later someone is going to launch something very similar that tackles the power distribution problem. Im not against power, but levels they are skewed to here is astonishing.
Great post!