While there are many things that are going right for Steemit there are a couple of things that needs to be addressed before steemit is ready for mass adoption.
- People upvoting their own comments.
- "I will follow you, follow me", "I will upvote your post, please upvote mine" kind of transactions.
- Posts that are of no utility to anybody but gets upvoted because of bots or some kind of automation.
If you go to https://steemit.com/created/test you can see that there are many posts which are just radom test posts but are still getting upvoted. I saw a couple of posts which had more than 10$ pay-outs.
This is one such post I picked. https://steemit.com/test/@harrydenture/46ps1u-test
And as you can see it has upvotes and a 4$ potential payout. While there are so many new authors out there are finding it difficult to make their posts visible to the greater audience there are posts like this which are getting both the upvotes and potential payout. This somehow doesn't seem fair.
@gokulnk
Want to clear up a few misconceptions here.
The post you noted that says "test" is, I think, actually a guy trying to hack Randowhale. That $4 payout cost him at least 2 SBD from Randowhale, so his payout is under $1.50 at most. The reason he was making all these test comments and Randowhal'ing them is because he was trying to figure out a way to cheat the bot (which he later did and it had to be updated).
Self voting is pointless to stop and minnows need to stop arguing against it. You can't stop it in the slightest. People will just vote trade or make new accounts to vote themselves so you won't know they are doing it.
If you are concerned about actual reward pool abuse and not self-voting, check this out:
https://steemit.com/curation/@lexiconical/exposing-advertiser-circle-jerks-in-trending-reward-pool-rape-and-bookingteam-com
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Read the post and up-voted. Couldn't agree more. As mentioned in your post there has to be a balance between whale votes which result in higher payout and the total number of votes on a post. The irony is that even the number of votes may not be an ideal indicator because of voting trails. We need to have enough guilds which will upvote good content which might offset the whales to a certain extent.
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