RE: Helsing: Creating a vampire killer (Becoming Serious)
The whales hold a lot of power and they should. After all, what's the point of investing in the long-term investment vehicle otherwise.
However, to prevent abuse, whales must be required to maintain a reputation. If their reputation suffers, they will not abuse the power.
The reputation of whales should also depend upon their curation rewards besides the SP. A whale should not profit much from abusive behavior, but responsible behavior.
An active curator whale who truly brings up valuable content and who is an active curator should have higher voting power as compared to inactive or abusive whales. They will still profit, let them, but they won't profit as much as true curators.
There should be no cap on the number of posts or earnings. It will kill the liberty of the network.
The problem is that what many of the community see as abusive is actually actively helping the platform maintain a balance. People forget that the flag has no benefit for the whale but does cost them in curation. That means there is no incentive for them to stop bad behaviour plus when they do, they get abused for it themselves.
You know better than me. I am still learning.