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RE: Whitepaper Discussion on Voting Abuse
The whole "drop voting slider to 25% and it'll be all the same" doesn't work for me at all. I tried it for 2 months and failed at it miserably. Few reasons -
- There's enormous cognitive load in trying to carefully ration and calculate voting power when you are reading hundreds of posts/comments a day.
- I can just as well vote on 10 posts at 100% and call it a day. It heavily incentivizes lazy curation.
- Active curators are being squeezed out of the reward pool. By having to adjust voting strengths down to 1/4th, active curators get a poor deal; while casual curators and self-upvoters can continue at 100% as they would. In effect, the more you curate, the lower strength you have to use, the lesser influence you have.
So, after over 2 months of fighting he system, I have embraced it. Now I just go through a small fraction of the posts I used to go through and call it a day. That's what the system wants you to do, so I shall.
Gee, if only someone had pointed this out ahead of time.
I understand you points, and I see the benefit in active curation by a larger amount of Steemians. The down side of all of this is lower distribution of votes. I still try to give 25% votes to others on posts and comments generally a little less and use up my 20% for the day. But I must say, with other dynamics in our community, I dont look at the normal channels anymore, and use alternative ways to read posts, essentially a list of my favourite authors, and from time to time I go through the NEW channel, but even my own HOME channel I hardly look at anymore. A shame for all those who publish good posts since it is more difficult for them to trigger me to read their posts and get a vote from me. I wish we would have a different system, in which the content I really like gets to channels I actively like to look at . I used Esteem Life app for some time, and have some channels setup to discover interesting posts from authors I do not follow. However, that App is a bit too buggy for me to really like it for daily use. But that said, such functionalities should have been part of our prime interfaces to the Steem blockchain.