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RE: How to make Steemit great again in 5 easy steps!
Let's hope you are right. I do have to say though that this experiment has been a good thing,minus the flagging.My curation rewards have doubled(to the whooping 3.6 steem per week,lol),and lots of people are seeing higher rewards,and now their votes count. I think the idea to turn the whale accounts into investor accounts with higher interests is a good one.
Upvoted and resteemed.
I agree that the experiment is good for the rewards pool. Thereby making those of us who finally can upvote and see results feel better about ourselves. The problem here is that the indiscriminate flagging in the whale war experiment is harming feelings. No other social media network pays it's users to participate. Yet they all get along fine. Why? Because a flag is not taking money from someone that they feel they've earned.
These people who are getting hurt by this, have made a choice to be here rather than wherever else it is they could be. Many of them have large audiences outside of steemit, and by punishing them for earning too much we're putting fodder in their mouths for a rage quit. But that's not even the whole point.
The same effect could easily be achieved by people just voting the content that they like. Period.
If you're a whale with enough voting power that your downvote can take money away from someone. You can also use that same power to make some random person's life better.
Why waste time and effort and most importantly, the community's good will on a downvote?
I agree on all points.But it seems to me that the mistake was starting the experiment without consensus. I'm very curious to see if this will lead to changes however,coming up in hardfork 18,whenéver that might be.