RE: @berniesanders pay me to post open buttocks on @haejin:-My apology to steemit
I am honestly very scared by this war between @berniesanders vs @haejin. I feel too much time, effort and SP has gone into this war already, resources that should be targeted towards new users and quality content creators!
This much drama on this platform will drive away new users. I have friends who I've introduced to Steemit and the first thing they see are posts about @haejin's "rewardpoolrape" and so on, this drives away new users as crypto is already a leap of faith for many.
Many other friends of mine started using Steemit, then stopped due to low recognition. If more time is focused into helping and bringing up minnows and less in hunting whales, it could really help this platform thrive.
Of course, I don't mean to say @haejin is innocent and should be ignored. He obviously makes as lot from Steemit, more per day than many do in a year on Steemit. He only selfvotes and his friend RoR votes for him which "rapes the rewards pool". I personally don't see anything wrong with self-voting, given you don't ONLY self-vote. However, as a whale, I feel you have increased responsibility (great power comes great responsibility) to not be greedy and not only self vote. This is destroying the platform as new users are leaving due to their effort vs reward not being favorable.
I too used to self vote a lot (probably like 80%) but now I frequently vote for others and also sell my votes on Minnowbooster as I realise in the long term, voting for others helps the platform grow which in turn increases the value of Steem, thus my own investment's value and everyone else's on Steem.
However, if greed overcomes people, I feel like there should be incentives or penalties put in place at the blockchain level.
Curation rewards SBD and SP and reduced curation rewards for voting on same user too much
- Curation rewards give half SBD (pegged at $1) and half SP just like author rewards do, this will incentivise active curation and effective curation.
- Perhaps introduce a tax, like the old 4 posts per day tax. So if someone upvotes someone more than 400% (4 full upvotes) in a day, their subsequent upvotes are worth less. This also means less self-upvotes!
- Of course, people can just create 3 or 4 or 5 accounts, but this is still making it harder for people to abuse their Steem Power
Most users are missing out that this is a social media and they assume they should get recognized on some special level, instead of treating this as a social media.
In addition to this, quite many users are hanging around only for the rewards, assuming that with the content they create they are entitled to certain kinds of rewards.
I'm quite sure most of us joined to get the rewards, but having any other motivation is a big bonus, especially when you can't assume people will specially work to find a minnows post and that it should be something they want to rewards.
Ps. If I'm not wrong, the reward pool is of a certain size. If a whale is upvoting himself without being flagged, he'll drain bigger and bigger amount of the reward pool to himself, leaving less for others.
The first time I saw this “war” I thought it was a pretty shilly thing to do