RE: Self-Upvoting – The scourge of HF 19? - Is there a solution?
This is really on point - and the answer is not at all clear. I wonder if a graduated voting distribution could be arranged somehow? Meaning minnowd have more voting power per vote relative to their size whereas whales individual voting power regresses as the amount of sp gets higher? To be honest, I'm not sure i understand the current voting scheme to know whether what I'm describing is plausible.
Re: randowhale and minnowbooster - i think as an early user these can be invaluable as a means of getting posts to be hot and actually, possibly getting some new views/followers. I see a lot of people talk about these services as a means of addig value at the end of a posts life span. This might be more questionable - but easily solved if the community disagrees with it - by putting on a short time limit for the use of such services. But as a form of "promotion" that actually works for newer users, it's unparalleled.
Thanks for reading. I agree they can be invaluable services, however, what if you are upvoting poor content. I know this is subjective, but it can be and is being abused by some users.
As to changing the rewards curve, whales have been here a while and still need to keep their relative influence, I feel that some minnows are just posting poor quality too and upvoting themselves into oblivion. This is occurring across all levels of power as well though.
Absolutely whales should retain their overall power - but perhaps the distribution of their voting power can return closer to pre-hf19 levels relative to their overall sp. Minnows may try to self upvote to oblivion but my 100% is worth 7 cents so it wouldn't matter so much. This would mean more votes for whales before running out of power but less abolity to catapult with a single vote
As to using randowhale and whatnot on bad content - or even lots more bad content existing - yeah. I think adding communities to steemit will help with that - so communities or community mods can better manage their tags contents and crap can be weeded out
I like your thinking. I do see whales now being able to trend posts by themselves. Before the HF it took a group to get something trending.
I also think the communities will make things better and easier to manage.