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RE: Time To Wake Up and Fix Steem's Voting Problem
So you decided to vote for your own post in this case ;) I stopped self-voting a while back as it didn't feel right when my vote was worth a couple of dollars. I'll let others have the benefit. I think the algorithms should make a self-vote worth less, but then people would do it indirectly using delegation or other means. I delegate to others to help them out. I think it's definitely more important to build this platform than to worry about how much I'm making. If it all works out then we'll do okay anyway.
What we do have here is freedom, so it is a choice. It's better to have less rules in general. I fully understand that some people are desperate to make anything and Steem/Steemit may make it possible for them to have a better life.
But if you don't mix in self-vote, you don't get to support others as much as you could in the future, while the others are staked up for almost nothing done for the platform. I didn't worry about whatever I'm doing until I started calculating and it doesn't stack up in that perspective I was laying out earlier. You're one of the ones that are sacrificing more than most for the good of the network :) thank you.
Agreed!💕👍👍👍
@steevc You post more often than most... what about those that post once a day or even less? Do you believe they need to not self-vote? (Just curious) I think they're still doing great good to the community by giving out 9/10th(ish) or more of their votes to curate good content.
@kevinwong
You post on average less than one a day... you're still giving 90%+ of your votes to others and that doesn't seem selfish at all (assuming you're doing the normal 10 votes worth a week) and I think that is awesome!! I don't see a problem with it personally. IF you are voting/curating solid content then you should be the one with more steem-power and I'm glad you're giving yourself some.
I'm not sure at what point it becomes abuse... i don't think it's when you're vote hits a certain dollar amount. I think it's what percentage of your votes are going to yourself.
p.s. sorry i don't really have a solid opinion on the main topic of curation percentage just chiming in on this subtopic from @steevc
I know there are much worse cases. There are people who comment just so they can give themselves a vote every time. We each set our own standards. I decided not to do it at all unless I got a flag I consider unwarranted
K cool. just so that people realize there are huge variances and not lump everyone together.
People also lump all vote buyers together as well.
Some people who use a bid bot just to invest some of their money and some who do it to get onto trending. If they wait like 2 days then they aren't trying to get onto trending... if they do it right away kinda seems like they're trying to aim for trending. (or there's a possibility they don't have a strategy just doing it just because) I guess if they wait more than like 4 days then they're just trying to milk the system.
Anyway that's a whole other bag-o-worms. haha
Great comment , we are living in very trying times all over the world so desperate times call for desperate measures especially for those of us that would normally never do it and would much prefer not to. We all want a better life at least a roof over our heads which I came close to losing after being laid off last year,and Am very thankful For steem I had powered up to help me out, and steemit! it really was a life saver and I am now on the road to recovery! ✌💕👍
Damn, I should have given you the Mitchell and Webb sketch I posted under Trafalgar... :)
And Kevin even said what I would say: that I self-vote to be good in the future ;)
I think you are one of the people that makes this whole place worthwhile - but there need to be some technical changes in my opinion. You wouldn't change one bit, but you would be given more power to actually change Steemit into something good.
I really think you are a bit alone on this one. Alright together with some other Steemonians like the post author. But the majority of Steemonians tells me to stop wining as red fish. I should just create quality content. But I'm 99.9% sure that any Newby won't get there just worth quality content.
As red fish I would suggest that all greedy orcas and whales instantly change there behavior. They should care for the long term.
Of I were your financial advisor I would give you a totally different advice. Everything that will be done as of now might be to little to late. Cause the $400mln can never be redivided.
I vote up comments by puerile of all levels so there's potential to earn from that, but it won't make you rich. If hope that those who got in early don't keep it all too themselves. There should be multiple opportunities to earn. I'm doing what I can to help
If everyone would think like you then things would work out in such a way that Steemit would be an awesome place to hang out. But I think we can only hope a future competitor will manage to create such a blockchain social media platform.
I can assure you that people that got in early will keep everything for their selves. None of these people will give away free Steem. So the gap will most likely never be closed.
There are good people here who do share, but some will just take the money. I'm not the only one who thinks as I do.