AskSteemit: What is something you are looking forward to doing with your votingpower?
Voting should be done by curating content, is what we've all learned.
Over time and hardforks though, things have started to change. Nowadays you can delegate your votes so other middlemen "curate" with them or straight sell them. If we are going to continue with this curation curve I believe there will be more and more services popping up where you will be able to do more things with your votes than just curate on posts.
I agree with rewarding user's contributions through votes and I feel a lot of the votes I receive may be because of curators knowing how much I contribute daily to the Steem ecosystem. Likewise with projects like Utopian and others they reward their contributors and developers with votes.
I can easily see project popping up, probably once SBD decides to stabilize a bit and Steem as well, where you will be able to do so much more with votes than just case them on content you feel deserve the rewards. Steem is evolving and it won't just be about blogging in my eyes.
Imagine a service that sells you things for your votes, being able to buy something instantly with a few votes doesn't sound all that impossible anymore. Of course there are risk of flags but maybe the service can price that in like shops do with thieves. It is kinda crazy to think about what this could mean for the platform, once we have more evolved services where you can just enter a shop, have your phone with you and they give you a link you can scan and throw a vote on their comment that allows you to buy a hamburger.
There is no point to unvoting cause you don't get back the voting power you spend - unless you feel the service you received was really bad. ;) Maybe the shopowners might ban you from that restaurant in the future if you have unvoted them or they notice someone constantly flagging your votes.
I can't wait to see how SMT's will effect these sort of things and everything you will be able to do with your voting power in the future.
Steemians: What's something that you are looking forward to doing with your votes?
I am coming to the realisation that I am going to have to adjust my behaviours whether I like it or not. I would love quality content based services but this reality isn't going to be attractive to most large users considering the payoff without caring. However, to be a part of that future, one has to keep up or be made obsolete, right?
To answer the question though, in some future I am just hoping that I am able to somewhat support myself by supporting others live better lives. I would love to be able to invest through votes into all kinds of projects for medical, tech, charity etc... The future could be awesome.
Hey Taraz! Let's assume we're in a far future where you could earn the same amount of STEEM/SBD by curating qualitative projects/minnows as you would make by posting 4 good articles a day like you're doing a the moment. You can only choose one option.. Which one would you choose, and why? :)
I have written about it before. I would likely split the difference and may even write as much but decline payouts. But, if I I was earning very well, I would spread it to others who are much better at what they do than me. If I was a billionaire, I would likely be working my ass off to invest into as many useful projects as possible.
:)
getting the suport as you've requested iss somewht hard to obtain, most minnows are unable to gain enough steem to even seek for curations, and most time it is really frustrating.
I'm aware of that, but it was just a hypothetical question :D. But you're right, minnows just have to slowly work their way up through contests, comments and decent posts that get some curie/ocd love :)
I can see upvotes being used as a reward-mechanism in games being built around the topic STEEM. Maybe like the game "Hodl the coin" from @limesoda for example.
Something like: "Get on the leaderboard and get an upvote for it. 1st place 100%, second place 90%, and so on"
One of many possibilities :D
I'm just growing my SP as an virtual penis. I'm proud as it grows bigger and bigger, but I still don't know what I'm going to do with it.
I might just delegate quite much of it to others. Then just enjoy seeing my account is worth a lot of money and still not stressing about using large upvotes.
I can relate to the first part of your comment.
okay, this earns an upvote for making me laugh out loud!
Well, when you consider that a vote has an instant monetary value, yeah... that's a whole new type of economy. One where people can spend because they're invested in the transactionary system. It's a whole different way of doing things...
Might have to write a post about this!
You should. :)
Never thought of that would be cool to buy a hamburger with an upvote lol
sounds quite ridiculous, huh :D
ya lmao but voting power does = money so its totally possible
My voting power is shit so my greed didn't wake up yet. All my voting power goes to people I like on steemit hahaha.
My honest opinion about the shop selling things for votes or steemit tokens: The price has to be fixed then.
Using votes to pay for goods and services would be a very nice initiative.. Although it will be difficult for most service providers to accept due to the fact that steem can decide to fall and the vote value reduces drastically.. It's a two way thing tho
Yeah there's a risk, but nowadays there's a risk in everything. :p
If they accepted votes that would have to be 10-20% higher in value then maybe they can mitigate that risk a bit and consumers wouldn't mind cause "its just votes" maybe.
I can't wait to see how SMT's will effect these sort of things and everything you will be able to do with your voting power in the future.
I am too eager to see that, there are certain things which really need to be corrected ASAP, hope with time everything gets fine, Today I was doing chat with some anonymous, he told me that you dont post on daily bases and as a result of which your steem power is getting wasted, deligate me your 50 SP and I will give you 0.05 SBD everyday in return, I was really shocked, pure business happening in this platform, these things should really be avoided.
I demand that the day comes where I can use my vote to get a bottle of whiskey.
Either that, or I'd be down for using my vote to feed my dumb ass hobbies. I'd be fine with either, but preferably it would be better to be drunk, opening up Pokemon cards and playing vidja games.
Well that is an interesting way of using an upvote to buy a burger.
So say that the restaurant owner have the menu of the week and so everyone that wants to order will be upvoting it for the appropriate amount.
You can easily see people who cheat and unvote but can also be used for unscrupulous or shoddy products.
Now what I would really want Steem power to do is be able to find charity organizations like @youarehope or @tarc that will greatly benefit a whole lot of people.
I myself I am always increasing my SP so someday I will be able to support my own charity @giftinkindph which we have been operating for the pass 12 years.
steem will be a way to humanize the blockchain and pave a way for mass adoption.