RE: Reflections on the Benefits and Growing Pains of Project Curie, Steem Guild, and Other Curation Projects on Steemit
Very interesting comment. I commented similarly in reply on @joseph's post before seeing what you said here, but I have to agree that I have misgivings about this "spread the wealth" philosophy.
In addition, consuming a large portion of the voting power and reward pool paying $10-30 to a huge number of posts means that available rewards for other posts just is not there (even more so than the price decline alone would dictate). That means posts supporting open source development, professional writers, high value subject matter experts such as professional traders, etc. just mathematically can't be there.
I fear the pendulum may have indeed swung too far toward these guilds and a breadth-oriented spread the wealth philosophy that destroys any real depth.
Good points.
Not the best choice. I actually have this problem at work too. My writing is too black and white. I know whales all have good intentions but sometimes you need to take baby steps to get where you want to go and sometimes as you said you need to try steps in different directions. I know whales listen to criticism and suggestions or I wouldn't give any.
On spread the wealth, I am not sure exactly what you mean. But if you mean spread over many topics I think it has gone too far. I think steem trails has the right idea: Focus on key segments to get commenters/ voters on board. I think guilds will work but they should be organized around one or two marked (like guilds historically). One day we might need a awesome writer guild but I think you need 1m active users before you could organically support such content.