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RE: How Does Content Go Viral on Reddit?
Yeah, I agree. I begrudgingly programmed my bot to stop voting for payout-witheld articles when I realized they'd earn no rewards.
So what's the answer: stop paying curation rewards on all posts? Start paying curation rewards to payout-witheld posts? I think both ideas have merit...
Just not use bots. Read the posts and decide to vote on or not. You don't have to vote on every post. You do it for the curation rewards. Not saying that's wrong. It's something we can change by the majority to just not use bots.
I could choose to outsource food that I buy to save money but buying local produce helps the local economy in farming. It's not illegal to outsource things in most cases but there's pros and cons. Ultimately if we just buy local produce, our local farmers would not be struggling.
It all starts with us as an individual
I'd argue the exact opposite, that it has absolutely nothing to do with the individual and everything to do with the incentives. In Steemit, the incentives are a design choice. Let's make them incentivize the right thing!
Is it the right thing to incentivize to do the right thing? Can't you choose to do the right thing, without an incentive?
I think there's at least some fallacy of composition in that. An individual can choose to do the right thing, but when society is composed of many individuals, a single choice may not make any difference at all. This is because as soon as I make a choice to stop doing the wrong thing, someone else will chase the money that I've left on the table and take my place doing the wrong thing.
Why would we want to continue offering people incentives to do that?