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RE: The STEEM Community Is In Trouble, And Here Is Why.
I used to think that whales upvoting each other was a real problem for the future of this platform but then realized that the most important thing is not how people use their power but how easy it is for users to gain influence. The easier the faster things will balance out. @smooth and @abit are currently running an experiment which makes influence more accessible for everyone and soon there will be another change with the reward curve which will make influence even more accessible.
The whales are an integral part of the system, without some kind of hierarchy steem power would be useless , we need to strike a balance between making the system accessible to everyone while still keeping the purpose of a stake weight based system intact.
I don't see a problem in them upvoting one another, it's just when people are blindly throwing likes around things get a little confusing. And I am not saying at all the people with more influence are blindly throwing around likes, they do quite the opposite actually!
You are contradicting yourself there.
I think you might be missing my point. I'm saying people that are new to the website or people that just want a buck will upvote large numbers blindly.
Not missing the point, I explained to you what the underlying issue is. If whales didn't autovote the same posts, payouts wouldn't be so big and newbies wouldn't blindly upvote them.
Oh okay, I see what you mean now. Yes i can definitely see that is important. I still believe that the people who do not add to the discussion with comments aren't much value to the integrity of the website.
Wasn't trying to upset anyone at all, this post is mainly calling out spammers
Interesting. I like Steemit, but there is room for improvement.