Steemit proposal, get rid of the sliding vote scale entirely.

in steemit •  8 years ago  (edited)

We need to remove the vote slider entirely. It can stop bad whales from abusing their many votes. 10 votes per account per day 100% only. Steemit was created so the best content would get huge rewards. This is a mathematical way to assure that. Votes have become much more competitive already but some whales can still abuse downvotes by dropping them to 1%. 100% votes only. Its how Steemit started and I think it is what it must return to in order to survive.

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Call it a guess, but I doubt this proposal will go far. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks the slider bar is a very good thing.

I disagree ... as it is 10 is too few votes.

With the slider, dolphins and whales can choose how much weight to give a post bringing the "cream" to the top and still supporting things that are good.

As a minnow, I'm rather disappointed that I sometimes see 40+ good quality posts in a day but I can only reward 11 of them if I don't want to lose voting power.

For example, right now I have to wait 4 days to vote at 100% again.

Besides that, downvotes cost as much energy as upvotes. This means if I flag abuse I'm giving up one of my 10 votes. You would think this would discourage downvote abuse, but instead people create bots to downvote otherwise good content in order to increase the pool for their own content (or people they favor)

I like it how it is now. Slider is good. And its also good that upvoting and downvoting is limited.
For me its perfect rules. Because its even.
And you can also just buy more steem.

An idea not yet discussed here might be to keep the slider but have a minimum value of 10%
That way there's plenty of granularity without enabling thousands of daily votes/flags per user.

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