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RE: Giving Steem
I was wondering why you commented on my post with such positive things to say and didn't vote. I didn't wanna say anything to pester you about it. I seeeeeeeeeeeee
I was wondering why you commented on my post with such positive things to say and didn't vote. I didn't wanna say anything to pester you about it. I seeeeeeeeeeeee
sorry....wrong post. I thought I was in the logo competition! :)
?? No I just didn't realize that the whale no upvote agreement included you
I was one of the people that suggested for the whales to stop voting and offered to share their "no curation rewards" fate. So once they had implemented and I saw they were serious, I supported it as I had said. I don't know if that meant anything to them or not, but it mean't something to me :) I'm still not getting any curation rewards so I think switching to delegation to support a whole bunch of minnows seems ok.
I just knew there was an experiment but it's about to end, right?
Yes, I understand that the whales will begin voting again once the new linear rewards have been implemented in HF19. Though, I really hope they all decide to continue not voting or voting with drastically reduced power. The linear rewards are not likely to be enough on their own.
Was it really that bad before the non-voting agreement? I guess it must have been effective if you want to keep it up? I'm guessing not all the whales are onboard otherwise we wouldn't have a bunch of $500-1000 posts, right?
Why not just have an agreement to reduce voting percentage to 5% or something like that? It seems more fair than dropping out altogether.
The issue is that someone must take a hit. Not every whale wanted to participate so the other whales were down voting their full power upvotes in order to neutralize them. The positive effect was to make more of the reward pool available further down the steem holdings structure.....people with less power found they were awarding something meaningful rather than next-to-nothing. This is absolutely critical to the success of steemit. It requires sacrifice to make this platform really sing!
Once the playing field changes and turns into a distribution of wealth that looks not so much like that of the international economy, just a little work on the culture to promote more of a gift economy as well as more community would be needed. So once we establish a little more equality in our abundance here, I don't think there would be any need for sacrifice.
I thought HF19 would do a lot to achieve that. I'm curious why @aggroed doesn't think so. You guys understand it much better than I do.