RE: A System of Influence and Power Determined by Money
Is it possible to create a platform similar to Steemit Inc, running on the same steem blockchain, but with different rules?
I love the basic steemit.com idea and I love the community I have interacted with on it. The numerical skewing of the reward system by too few owning too much robs well intended bloggers and those who follow them from any monetary incentive sponsoring them.
This is sad. It seems to be still possible for any poster of quality content to build a healthy following and to achieve at least some recognition, albeit without significant reward. Some have to earn their daily meals with the time they spend writing really quality posts. If quality authors cannot support themselves writing articles specifically for posting here, the system fails them.
Simple as that.
We had different rules before they changed them to these.
The community rejected rule by the ninjamine and stinc quickly hardforked (a couple weeks) to favor the ninjamine over everybody else.
Then they did their best to relegate that fact to the memory hole by favoring new voices that didnt know the history.
And yes, a fork is possible.
There are more witnesses outside the top 20 than in it.
Though we cant know how many are stinc being sneaky.
Mmmm...a fork with no bot-voting; a fork where wealth does not obtain power; a fork where voting power is gained only by posting quality articles; a fork where active witnesses are perhaps a little more randomly selected from a geographically evenly spread pool of candidates capable of doing it; a fork with a constitution stipulating forbidden contra POB activities and means to counteract...mmm...think it possible?
Nearly everything is possible,...not probable, at this point.
Too many loose ends to tie up.
When steemd can run on homebrew servers the likeliness rises.
Thanks