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RE: Witch Hunting Self Upvoters Solves Nothing
In my opinion it's good that people publish raw data, data is not subjective. I think that self voting might be a sign of the platforms general inefficiency for rewarding people. It's all about incentives and we just need to figure out how to have incentives that benefit the platform the most.
No system is without faults. And the people who hate self voting can just ignore the user's and uovote those who don't, I really don't see the problem. This way incentives will adjust, making it a worse long term strategy.
I hope more objective data is posted about as many aspects of the platform as possible. Information is the key to make good decisions and when both parties have perfect information you'll have an efficient exchange :)
I think you're absolutely correct in your comment regarding the cause of self votes. Imma upvote it even though my VP has dipped below 80%, and now I'll have to wait longer before it recharges and I can vote again, because HF19.
An issue is that the Steem premined yet constitutes the majority. This Steem isn't being used to curate, and isn't causing Steemit to grow by rewarding content creators. This leaves open the question of whether Steemit was ever intended to actually attain the goals publicly claimed for it, or whether there were other motives that may have been cryptically held by the devs.
It simply may be impossible for Steemit to transition into a platform that does efficiently reward authors without the Steem held by @dan, @freedom, and other whales being invested in that process.
Thanks for the comment...100% upvote. Raw data is not subjective....but if you have looked into the Steem data...just the act of getting some of that data and trying to organize/label/make sense of it can be subjective. Just showing data or choosing which parts to show or not show is subjective. In fact, I can show you data in the real world to prove any point you may have. Are you for global warming? There is data on that. Are you against global warming? There is data on that too.
I do think we need to start talking about that data so we can all make sense of it.
This is a great point. Selectively choosing datapoints that fit the goal is bad. Luckily data on steem is public and its easy to disprove conclusions made from selective datasets.
I think that most issues discussed have fierce debattants on both sides of the aisle. In the end its always up to the readers to dissect and study ALL available information.
I just hope people will stay constructive rather than start a flaming war. But this is the internet after all, we'll see.