Operation Even Flow - @hendrix22's Proposal For Steemit Equality - We Need A Fucking Hard Fork!

I wrote a post the other day complaining about the SMT's, the Steemit Witnesses, Voting issues and the Haejin pillaging. You can read that post HERE incase you missed it.

I have created a solution to some of these issues and would like to share it with you all. I am not a witness however and my solution cannot be implemented unless the people really are interested in making this platform better and not just filling their wallets up. I am also including another solution from a fellow Steemian @jga shared with me via a comment. He created a post which I will place the link to. So it's time we all stop complaining all day and start offering all these solutions and make the much needed changes to keep this platform heading in the right direction.

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What Is Operation Even Flow?

I created this solution in the hopes of solving the issues of large weight up and down votes compared to regular Steemians votes. You shouldn't be punished for having a large stake or being a large investor so I have a solution to that. I also think that you shouldn't be given a large weight vote if your investment is minimal. This solution will create more equality and help lower the circle jerking and create a more equal playing field for Steemians.

Let's Take A Look At Some Examples

Current Voting Weight Based On Steem @ $3.00

In the image above you see how the current voting system is setup. If you own a large stake of Steem Power you can cast a very large up or down vote up to 10 times per 24 hour period. This can be the main cause of severe circle jerking, pumping up spam posts, huge self upvotes as well as serious down votes which in turn is almost impossible to counter against regardless the amount of steemians who thought a post was worth up voting. In the case of the Haejin situation you can see how Ranchorelaxo upvotes Haejin 100% for 10 votes per day which is not spreading around any of the votes throughout the Steemit platform.

Operation Even Flow's Voting Weight Based On Steem @ $3.00

In the image above you will notice that I have found that if the amount of money per vote is lowered by the larger stake users and the amount of votes per 24hr window increases then they will be forced to spread the upvotes around to more of the community. This will by default make circle jerking a little bit more difficult and perhaps a bit less appealing. It will also force Haejin to either post 55-60 posts a day to receive the same amount of monetary gain from himself and Ranchorelaxo as he currently does. It will also create a more fair system on the upvote downvote war on a post since the voting amount will be closer to equal then they are in the current system.

This type of system will also cause bid bots to become less appetizing since the maximum up votes would be less. However maybe they would work better considering the amount of lower $ value votes they would be able to spread around. Perhaps the delegation feature should be removed from the system as well or maybe a cap limit installed. It seems that it is causing more harm then good but that's a topic for another day.

Why Is It Called Operation Even Flow?

I chose to name my current solution to the issues at hand Operation Even Flow because it's my life and I do what I want. No really it's because it's a fucking awesome name and Pearl Jam is kicks ass.

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A Different Solution by @jga

Now let's look a little bit at a different solution to the voting issues at hand. This solution was created by a fellow Steemian named @jga.

Steem proposal to reduce voting rings and self-voting by @jga

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The Proposal

Let's reduce the value of the vote to those votes that represent a good percentage of the curation of a user.
We can not impose that the vote to be distributed among 1000 different accounts, this would be very restrictive and unpopular. But I think that a fair number is distributing the vote among at least 20 people, meaning no more than the 5% of our voting power for each account.

Each user will have 20 "resistances" that represents the amount of voting power spend in a particular user. For instance, Alice has a voting power at 100%. If she votes Bob the voting power is reduced 2%. This 2% is added to one resistance called "Bob". When this resistance is above 5% the worth of the vote is reduced proportionally to this percentage.

And how is the percentage of each resistance reduced? The same amount added to one resistance must be subtracted from the remaining 19 resistances. In other words, the 20 resistances represents the distribution of our votes.

I know it is difficult to visualize at first glance. For this reason, I have created a very intuitive simulator where you can understand it directly.

Please click on this LINK to be taken to @jga's Proposal

@jga has created a voting simulator for his proposal so you can physically see how the voting would take place.

A 3rd Solution by @smcaterpillar

Steem Improvement Proposal: Revoting Power to counter Upvote Circles and Bid Bot Abuse by @smcaterpillar

The Proposal

For simplicity users voting are called curators and the users receiving these votes are called authors in the following.
Besides the existing voting power that decreases slowly with each vote and recovers quickly by 20% each day, a curator is assigned an individual voting power per author. Let us call this special voting power revoting power. The revoting power is halved after each vote casted by the curator on the very same author. Moreover, the re-voting power recovers much more slowly and re-doubles only every n days. For now let us assume n=28, i.e. 4 weeks, but the exact time span needs to be discussed in more detail.

Please click on this LINK to be taken to @smcaterpillar's Proposal

So instead of crying like little bitches and complaining all the time we need to work on some changes. These are 3 different methods of change for the same topic. Perhaps we could debate these changes or integrate them together to make the ultimate change to the system. Let's all work together to develop what would work the best because 100,000 brains have to be better then one :)

Once we have exact proposal written in stone we must fight for the change to be implemented into the block chain so we can grow this platform into what it's meant to be. We as the users should have the power to make the change or what's the point in Decentralization.

I look forward to working with all of you to create a place where everyone is happy and wants to get their family and friends aboard and not want to cash out and run away before the ship crashes. It should be a place where when you have extra money on a pay cheque from working overtime your first thought is I can buy a little extra Steem Power this week :)

Let's do this guys!