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RE: A Guideline Reminder from the Church of Piglet
Delegations have uses. I have delegated to some spam fighters and to minnows who can do more voting. I only get paid a little for one of them. More whales should give out delegations for free to spread the votes and build the community. They can make money anyway.
Thank your for your delegations to SFR and Admiralbot.
I need to write a post about the recent delegation. It's an honor for us to be able to deploy yalls SP to fight abuse. I can't stand the degree at which dishonesty and selfish people are able to accumulate stake so readily but not really contribute to the viability and sustainability of the platform and doing what we can to change that.
I think steemit can be much more than it is now and I want to help that process where I can
Absolutely. I'm not knocking delegations per se, or even all of their actual use. Delegations could have been great, and sometimes they still are, as you well know ;-), but overall, looking at their actual use, I think Steemit would be better off without them, as they mess up the social/stake/accountability/curating aspects of Steemit through bidbots and in other ways. And that's a pity.
Bidbots are just an emergent element of this platform. I think we need various ways to use our SP and delegation is very useful to me. Of course these tools can and will be misused. I see some saying that they should get rid of flagging too, but that's also an important tool.
Pricks are also an emergent element of this platform, as are uninterested whales. That doesn't mean I have to like them or support what's keeping them in business 8-P.
Now some people will think I am calling you a prick. That's funny. Could be just my sick sense of humour, though.
We have freedom here and people are free to be pricks. I'm not calling you one either.
Damn. Where's the drama in that?
Project Wise by @noisy is a fine grained vote delegation with rules. Instead of giving someone your power, you give them right to let's say five votes on content tagged with a given tag. This way you support curators in a more controlled way.