RE: Charles Wayn (DLive): Can our true value be recognised on the STEEM blockchain?
It is not possible to always be 'fair.' At least not according to everyone's different definition of what 'fair' would be.
People are going to vote for what they want to, who and what they believe in, what they find interesting, etc. Somebody else can't tell them that it isn't 'fair' that there content wasn't included. Also, an individual only has limited hours in the day to spend online, and only limited voting power. So we can't demand any person or whale to spend the hours or days needed to discover the 'best' content, and when we try, someone will disagree that we chose correctly anyways.
I have seen some 'whales' and people follow curation trails BUT they must lower their vote %'s to between 1-5% to cover so much ground. AND THEN people complain about how 'stingy' all the whales are being. So if we give larger votes to a few, people complain. And if we give small votes to many, people complain. And if we spend many hour spreading out medium votes to a large number (but not huge number) of people, people complain!
No matter what -- someone will complain.
So we've all just got to do the best we can and not try to please everybody and not expect Steemit to be 'fair.'
One thing that I could think of that perhaps STINC could do, IF we had a proper way to count views (which we apparently do not right now) is to upvote from the STINC account the most viewed posts/videos of the day. Or if there was even a post made each day to highlight the most viewed posts so that others could decide to upvote. Or even another tab beside 'trending' and 'new' to show 'most viewed' ... but alas that seems impossible from what I have read as people view Steemit posts from so many different portals.
Maybe DLive will be able to monitor the views properly on their new platform, and then distribute rewards according to who was viewed the most, which I would agree is the best way to be 'fair' with rewards for video creators. If so, then they've got to do what they've got to do, but don't complain how 'unfair' Steemit was and leave here on a sour note as if Steemit did you some wrong.
Thank you for your detailed response to this question Linda.
I can see how it must be incredibly hard for Whales to distribute their vote in a way which works for everyone. And please don't get me wrong, you are Steemit's living angel in the way you support so many people. I suppose in the end we just need more Whales here!
View count would certainly help, or a mechanism like the one you described so people could easily see which posts were getting the most views every day. For films I would say view count is essential and having now uploaded over 100 films to BitTube (where they reward based on view time) I can see people watching them (looking at view count) and this seems like a system which will reward more fairly.
I do agree the content of the DLive message to everyone could perhaps have been toned down a bit. No need to leave on a sour note as you say.