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RE: Need suggestion To Make Steemit Alive For Long Term
That's very interesting, that explains a lot. When was the change made and what was used before?
Of course self voting only works if you are are at last minnow. Plankton votes are worth noting.
June 2017. See
https://steemit.com/steemit/@thecryptodrive/welcome-to-steem-hf-19
And this:
https://steemit.com/steemvoter/@steemvoter/steemvoter-week-in-review-for-may-21-26
It was combined with a linear voting system instead of the previous exponential one.
I think they thought they were taking power away from the whales and giving it to minnows. But what actually happened is that the small group of power voters who were keeping the site stable by dishing out 40 votes a day to anything that caught their eye were discouraged and everyone else just self-voted and you get the mess we see now.
Yes, it seems that backfired big time. There might not have foresee that eleven month ago as I suspect minnow and plankton votes where not as week and wales not as powerful.