RE: Trying out vote-bying
There are no working economic theories, I think; all unscientific bollocks best left to people with religious inclinations. Trial and error is all that we have, but I agree social democracies and the Rheinland Model seem to yield the most happy people.
BTW I wonder what percentages and curves Weku uses. It has many flaws, like the initial distribution, just one witness, a lot of scamming and spamming, and it is uncertain if Weku will ever be traded, etc., but despite all that, my experiment with posting there shows a more pleasant and reasonable set of rewards; the numbers somehow look better and more even. Nobody knows where Weku is going, there is that, of course, but still.
They don't have an open API so there are no bots, maybe it is just that, and attempts at bots have been squashed by the powers that be so far.
Note that this is not an advertisement for Weku; post there at your own risk, and a risk it is. It is just worth having a look there to see what happens and compare it with Steemit.
Yes, agree. The European model works as long as it is pragmatic and use utilitarism without calling it ethics. At least it is better than the anglo-saxon pursuit if shabbiness. But the whole thing seems to spiral down the moralist drain right now.
I will have a look at weku and I also forund whaleshares. Are they both Steem clones?
Weku is, and I think Whaleshares is also. Again, note that I don't know if Weku will ever amount to anything, but I find it interesting to see things develop there and look for differences with Steemit, one of the glaring differences for now being, of course, that you can sell Steem on an exchange.
Be careful out there!
Seems like Steemit mainly for Pakistani people.
I've heard rumours there's a Dane there as well.
:)