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RE: Ashes to Ashes, Votes to Dust: Making votes count
This is fucking stupid.
Yes but, I think it has always been this way here (we just didn't know). If you read the velocity post it hints at why. Something to do with bandwidth and flooding the system. Perhaps it is a legacy issue.
1 cent spammers are not the major problem on steem. This doesn't effect the assholes in trending earning $1000 per post on absolute shit. This affects tiny accounts making a few cents.
Indeed.
Raising the threshold would be even worse. I have made less than $1 on some posts I've poured my heart and soul into.
Yeah, I agree. There are other ways to combat it but, that is what Tim's discussion was about.
So many complications and layers of complexity. The complexity here is killing it.
You totally did the quote and agree bit! HAHA!
There's an issue my brain keeps going back to. All those posts that minnows voted on that didn't get over the dust threshold...they basically lost their VP.
What happens if people start pushing the idea that if you're a minnow, you shouldn't vote on anything that hasn't been voted on yet, unless you can push it over the dust threshold? The minnow problem will get even worse here. Often when you're new it's only tiny little minnows and plankton voting on you.
Hell, to this day occasionally a large percentage of my payout is tons of small votes on comments. Although now I know all the minnow votes were just fucking disappearing if they didn't have someone with more power to back them up.
There is even some fun and useful spam. Like those stupid achievements. I kinda like those. I bet they make a lot less due to this dust threshold.
I did.
...but, I did add something too ;) Also.. look how many damn comments I have had to answer... give me a break :P
Yeah, :/ I wish I had known about it soon er as I would have changed some of the advice I have given.
The votes stack of course but, most comments don't get many votes usually. I am glad I know about this now though and hopefully more people will adjust for it.
Steemitboard? I use that sight all the time for various numbers and Arcange has other projects ongoing too. Plus, you can stop it just by commenting stop.