RE: Follower Count Report for Monday, August 15th
I don't really see how voting too much adds "noise" to the system.
I am pretty sure I am one of few who doesn't care much about my voting power and the curation rewards from it. Since I know even trying to effectively vote and make the most from curation rewards is still not a lot compared how much you can make from author rewards, I have been freely voting left and right. Even though I know my votes aren't even worth much, I feel giving votes to new users and comments will at some point drive people to do the same, now with weighted voting it might become even more popular.
I find it greedy to see people who keep their voting power as high as possible, only vote on the "famous authors" or posts that they know will become valued more and join the hivemind. This is counter-productive in so many ways, users don't feel appreciated by the low amount of votes they have gotten (not talking about vote value received here) and it drives them to only comment and vote on posts that they know will become valuable.
Look at danthemans post and how spammed up the thread gets where I can't even get a single answer from him after a whole month. Instead people could direct their attention and votes to someone who is new and trying to make this better in the future.
Don't get me started on users who post 4 posts daily and don't even reply to a single comment or vote in their posts. Use this site as a money grabber and instantly dump it on the market, and users blindly give them their votes cause they get curation rewards for it. Disgusting to say the least. Then looking at the amount of trolls and cancer who have made 5-20x more SP doing just that... makes you wanna question where this platform is headed.
But oh well, not much I can control, just wanted to get my point through, and activity between users is something that should be valued a lot more, in my opinion. Rant over, sorry.