RE: 5 Votes Is Not Enough
First I'm not a Steem dev or part of Steemit, I'm just a simple Steem user.
The new rules will be advantageous to smaller investors, not the other way around. That is what is stated and wish, so if it was realized not to be the case then we have all the reasons to think this will be changed. Right now big investors can delegate their curation to other people. They have the time, know-how and the incentives to set in place those practices as this pay them a lot of money which isn't the case for small investors.
Steem can be seen as a really fun job. We doesn't expect anyone to know anything on day 1. Sure Steem is a complex thing. What is the percentage of people who understand the money creation system currently in use in the world?
We will need to teach people how to use Steem, this is a fact. Those who aren't interested at first won't be first to benefit from it. We shouldn't force teach them or force them to use Steem.
Steem is a good monetary system and there is already a lot of people recognizing this and benefiting from it.
We have a major divide in how we view Steem/Steemit that I think is the crux of our disagreement. You are looking at it as an investor and I am looking at it as a user.
I think you would do better as an investor to not think about it like you are. You won't reap much as an investor if the platform fails to grow and gain some sort of mass adoption.
The value potential of Steem is not in the crypto-currency it's in the social network. Building a better social network is better for investors. Why are bots bad? Because they harm the human experience and so further harming that experience shouldn't be the answer since that only compounds the problem.
"Steem is a good monetary system"
There are plenty of better monetary systems available, being a good monetary system is not Steem's market differentiation.
Thank you for taking the time to state your concerns, I don't pretend to hold the truth.
I'm not sure there are plenty of better monetary systems. I won't debate this here now.
Also the new rule is going to affect bot more than human. Another thing I would love to point out now that I've reflect on the matter a bit more, those who will read the most and apply themselves to do more curation will still be advantage over others, that won't change.