When a whale votes, everybody else's vote loses power.
If a whale votes with enough sp to take up 10% of the votes cast on any given day, that 10% comes at the cost of everybody else that voted.
The only way to spread the math out is if the very largest whales don't vote.
If you join one of the gangs to be better rewarded what eventually happens is only gang members get rewards.
Did you notice the drop off in rewards when they came on the scene? I did.
If you are gonna delegate sp to somebody, pick somebody you like and delegate it to them.
If your posts are not getting rewarded, work harder, or longer.
When you buy votes from the whales all you are doing is making them even more powerful, if they voted their full weight our votes are diminished in proportion.
They can literally suck up the pool in such a way that nobody continues to play.
If only one minnow votes, the entire reward pool goes to that vote.
If a minnow votes and a whale votes each vote is given weight in proportion to the sp balances of the voters.
So, if the whale votes 89% of the sp in the pool then the minnow's vote is 11%
You can see how quickly the largest whales voting causes their influence to overwhelm the minnows'.
This is the same math that occurs when you join in the gangs, when they vote enough sp the minnows at the bottom of the influence ladder get knocked off.
Personally I am looking forward to the day that all these intiatives disband and disburse their sp to their respective members.
On that day the whole will have taken back it's power from those that think ganging up to have more power is ideal.
Have a perfectly peaceful day.
Keep working, stop paying. No war, but the class war!!
Viva! Tradeqwik, the exchange that pays you!
How to win in court for far less!!
Always with you.
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Happiness is fleeting for the tumbleweeds,....I think I will get a tattoo to make up for it,....
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I hope to see the picture of the tattoo? You might get a lot of upvotes if it's steemit lol.
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I couldn't get a 100usd post if my life depended on it, but that just re-enforces the idea behind the tattoo.
It will have to wait until I'm set up somewhere south of the united snakes.
I'll post a pic here, maybe.
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This site seems mathematically engineered to reward and feed the powerful. As a minnow, I find this somewhat discouraging and unfair. A whale can click a button or put up any random post and they win every time. For me, I usually don't even get 10 views and my rewards are either nothing or a few pennies regardless of effort. Anyway, you got a minnow-strength upvote from me. It's the thought that counts, right?
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Well, to be fair, they had to build it this way or they could've lost control of it before it was ready to float on it's own.
Crapitalism requires that level of control.
Stinc has some of the best crapitalusts going, or the money masters wouldn't have backed the platform.
At some point they have to let go of the control and let the community decide what are gems and what are not, and many of the whales have done that, but there are 10 wannabe whales to take their places.
As the gangs grow in influence the rewards for those that don't brownnose them will decrease.
At some point it will become as pointless to participate as it was pre hf17 for the people that don't play the game by the gang's rules.
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As the old saying goes, "it is what it is." I guess we can either accept it and try to participate despite the flaws or tune-out. For now I will continue to post and see what comes my way. There is some quality to be found here, as your post demonstrates. Thanks for the reply and all the best!
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Despite it's flaws, I am up over 5000 usd, even though my content will never trend as long as the current folks maintain their influence.
I just keep beating the drum, the freedom lovers will catch up, eventually.
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Even though you are swimming upstream, it appears you are making progress and having an influence. Every journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step!
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Yeah, they read me, but won't vote me.
Good thing I am here to spread the message and not acquire wealth, huh?
Rule by force is the disease, who and how are symptoms.
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I love Dr. P!
I want one of them jet skis so I can go around making my friends all sticky!
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Probably shouldn't spam the same comment on many posts,...
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