RE: Examining Honey from a Different Perspective - Steemit Sock Puppetry Continues
@smooth, with all due respect, there is as you said a voting pool. If the whales are creating sock-puppet accounts and setting up accounts to get votes, and setting those accounts to vote for each other, making comments on each other and pretending to have conversations with themselves. That hurts creditability and it hurts what is really left in the pool, for the end users. So, writing better content becomes kind of meaningless if the vast majority of the pool is just being spread around by a few people managing many accounts.
I agree with others who have said, it will work it's self out. It will because the whales will be sitting around posting and voting on accounts that no longer have any outside value, due to the price of SteemIt. I understand it can't be controlled. It shouldn't be justified either. My opinion.
Yeah, if this sort of thing continues, eventually steem will be worthless.
Again, is the content good or bad? If bad, don't vote for it or down vote. The pool is thus protected from bad content. Simple as that.
the greatest challenge remains a way for good content to leap forward...it's still very difficult even with many initiatives. once that will happen we won't need investigation because writing good stuff is hard and time consuming a.k.a costly!
Agree. Give it time (and continue working to make things better by helping to identify the best content and promote it; but recognize, and try to accept, that not everyone will agree on what "best content" means). Cream rises to the top, but it is cream in the eye of the SP holder.