RE: Why 5 Votes and the Vote Bar is GOOD for Steemit!
You make some good points. However, i also believe steemit wont survive with just 5 votes a person. People will hold on to those votes, and if you make a post yourself and most of the time is automatically upvoted, and you make four posts a day, that means you can only vote on one person. This means you are not going to waste your time looking for new people or helping them out because you only have one vote left. In addition, since everyone only gets 5 votes, more people will have less upvotes which equals less rewards.
Therefore, it might be better for people already on the platform, but not for newbies or people who still havent joined. So either way, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This may cause many people to abandon steemit alltogether.
I guess all we can do i wait and see.
I still look for content because I try to help Steemit grow by promoting quality.
I will do a test tomorrow when I next post. I will record my vote power, then post, and see what percentage is automatically applied/taken from my vote power weight.
Thanks.
not sure what that would do... the post you linked to is a proposed hardfork. It h as not been implemented yet.
The vote bar is something unrelated. You h ave always been able to cast percentage votes like that in the CLI. It wasnt necessary to hardfork to make that feature available.