RE: Trigger Warning: I agree with @grumpycat
I definitely agree with what yourself and @grumpycat are trying to say. There's definitely a whole lot of people posting garbage to the platform here, which, in a system of "creating and curating high quality content", is definitely bad news bears. I often forget that there's the counterpart to the upvote button -- the all powerful flag / downvote. I forget to use it, but it's definitely necessary.
At the same time, however, it's interesting to hear the whales complain bout this and try to 'rally the troops' to join them, when they themselves are the ones that are getting the majority of the reward pool. Maybe if the 'wealth' or 'influence' on the platform here were more evenly distributed, people would be more compelled to flag things, because they actually see what it's like to get a slice of the reward pool, and would want to protect it from being raped.
Right now, to some degree, it just sounds like whales yelling, trying to get minnows and others to fight for them (the whales).
Oh yeah, that's definitely true. But at least on here, it is possible to climb the ranks and eventually, not reach whale status, but be comfortable making money just doing the things you like to do. I guess it is that which motivates me to tow the line, and try to ignore the often times blatant hypocrisy of the whales to see through to the points they make which are valid. The whales have already contributed to Steemit, either in content or money, mining or development. So, their opinions on content, to me anyway, are pretty much automatically valid given their current standing. While it's true that maybe there should be rewards for those like @pawsdog who are out fighting the good fight, he is ultimately every bit as much to gain from doing what he does as the whales are, more so probably even. A few thousand dollars raped here and there is a pittance for a whale, but an awful lot for us minnows. Preventing shit posts from making money is a minnow's only recourse to saving some of the reward pool, since we can't control our great whale overlords haha. I guess that's just how I see it! Thanks for your comment though, I completely agree.