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RE: Why is Curation on Steemit by Some People Considered a Heroic Deed?
Did you take into account that bidbots and delegating to them skew the distribution even further? It is yet another example of how making money with money trumps making money with content here. Such mechanisms tend to grow the bigger wallets the most and concentrate wealth into the hands of a few.
Also, guildies who upvote themselves beyond their worth can be flagged, but bidbots and their delegators don't leave many hooks that can be used to express disagreement with their actions.
Strangely, we think so too.
I don't see how there is a difference in flagging bots or guilds. Each person has the entire weight of their stake to flag with nothing less, nothing more.
Yes, I do not deny a negative impact to content from the bidbots and how they are pulling rewards away from the rest of the community. However, still each of us controls our own stake... Nothing less, Nothing More. So, they aren't misusing MY stake or YOURs. They are only using their own stake or stake that others have rented to them. Although I don't think it is the best business model or the best way this could have turned out. I can't deny their freedom to do that.
DPOS. I think it is always going to create these situations.
I do agree they skew the rewards and often not in a good way.
The problem, if you see it as a problem, is that guildies upvoting themselves can be flagged more directly; you can express disagreement with their upvoting behaviour by flagging their own posts, but you can't get at those who delegate by flagging; the same goes for bidbots that don't leave a comment. They are beyond accountability more than guildies.
I could probably write that down in a clearer way after another coffee.