What is the problem?
Votes are weighed to steem power, resulting in posts being dependant on if a whale likes it or not.
This causes heavily biased post rankings, and alot of good content to get lost because it goes unnoticed. This will keep good content makers from staying on steemit and promotes 'bad' popular articles.
Watch this post ironically be drowned in the sea of other posts.
How do we fix this?
It's simple. The curating rewards should still be weighed to STEEM POWER, but the blogging rewards should be weighed to just the total amount of votes. This will cause a fairer system.
Once there are more people, wouldn't it become more balanced, even with the whales?
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not really it seems as if as soon as everyone realises curating is the easiest way to earn, posts are only getting 2 votes then being ignored as everyone races to get the curating reward. meaning a lot will stick about for a week or two then leave
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I agree. I think I see a lot of people posting their dissatisfaction about a post they made and spent time on receiving a good number of upvotes, but not being awarded a high $ value as it didn't happen to draw the attention of a whale. I entered site thinking same thing (4 days ago). Within that time I've switched thinking a bit. it's going to be about spending time and persevering for a lot of people, and I am one of them. I am no longer putting up a post about something hoping it catches the attention of a whale. I decided what I am doing is building sweat equity. My amateur posts in early time still build up what I will call participation credit. That credit gets built up and overall begins to add more weight behind what I post, and at the same time with repetition of posting will improve the quality of what I've said. I don't want to post about something I'm proud of and feel disappointed because Dan didn't upvote it. That road will lead to a lot of disappointment. I like the suggestion and what motivates it though
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Is it OK to repost?
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Absolutely and sorry for late reply
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My proposition is to create community groups around content topics. People should subscribe to the group. Then the group indeed is considered as member that always give an up vote to the post published by the members of the group. The steem power of this user-group should be the combined steem power of all members that belong to that group.
With this strategy you can stimulate the formation of big groups discussing about specific topics, increasing quality content and every post received an up vote from a user with a lot steem power.
Also, in the long run the user-group should replace the whales or complement them.
Just an idea!
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good idea
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curating issue #1 ... a fairer system ... The curating rewards should still be weighed to STEEM POWER, but the blogging rewards should be weighed to just the total amount of votes.
so the whales can not #upvote but can #downvote, does that change anything?
also the key point if steem is non-democratic voting ;)
curating issue #2 ... the #tags ... I don't understand the flagging with expertise just yet ... but go to any popular tag and notice 90% is not OP content for that tag zone ... just reposts/crosspost ... agree there needs to be crosspost options ... but the same content dominating all the tags! #steemtag
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For STEEM App Creators and Developers
https://steemit.com/steemit/@marsresident/bots-and-the-steemit-ecosystem
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