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RE: The truth is, what is shown on the trending page is not what is happening for 99% of the platforms users…. We are minnows but “WE CAN CHANGE THAT”
I do think voting down all overpriced post is the correct course of action. Why? Because even if it is a good post for each such post there 5 or probably 20 equally good ones that get a penny or nothing. As the name of the campaign states steemit is not (at least should not be) a casino to reward a random small number of post with huge amount and leave 95% of the posts with nothing.
The deep problem IMHO is that there is not enough curators with reasonable voting power to cover all the content. My solution for the curation is explained here, but before going to the solution I believe a nedd to realize a problem do exists hence this campaign.
James-Snow you are more about the money than about the platform. Steemit isn't just about Steem Dollars. But some people aren't seeing that and are just seeing $$$$$$ and thinking some people are getting too much while they are getting too little. But that kind of negative thinking doesn't improve Steem.
Steem doesn't grow when there are caps. It's true there might be a limit to how much money can be distributed but if this is about Steem Power and not money then it's about being a good curator. I will post more on this in the future but I think it's a good thing to have large payouts. It shows that Steemit can change people's lives.
Overpriced is your opinion. We are all aware a problem exists what you are asking for is just as unfair. @williambanks makes a more compelling and fairer argument on how to change things.
In all due respect, I agree with @williambanks. Your proposal bastardizes the downvote as its intended functionality to be a reflection of opinion of quality of the content or of personal preferences. To fix the voting algorithm, we depend on the developers of the Steem blockchain protocol to do that.
Your intentions are perhaps admirable to have a less lottery style voting reward algorithm, but the way to achieve it is not to abuse the meaning of the downvote feature. We should instead ask the developers to consider changing the algorithm.