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RE: Steemit/Steem: Reputation Voting Analysis
That's a really interesting analysis.. I will share my story too if you don't mind :D
Personally, I try to spread my votes as much as I can. But I am a greedy human, so 1 full upvote goes to myself every day. And one full upvote to another person I am really close. My only problem is that there are certain whales or dolphins (now at 69 lvl or more) that greatly supported me (and still do) when I first registered here, so when they post I always give them a 100 % vote, even if they don't need it. It would just seem ungrateful not to do so. But, I understand this is damaging as it means less votes for the newcomers here :/ And I have no idea what to do, as I only get to have 10 full upvotes a day :/
Hey @trumpman, I am certainly no expert. But you have an interesting question at the end, so I thought I would weigh in.
As it regards to you voting out of "respect" to the people that supported you early, I believe it depends on the type of person that you feel obligated to support. If that person would want you to vote for them even though you have a limited amount of votes to use, then I can understand the loyalty.
However, if that person would want you to support the platform instead by spreading your vote to encourage good community development, then I think you should consider better alternatives. The only way to know is to have the conversation with them (if you don't already know their answers).
I am very new and nowhere near where any of your all are at, but I feel the same debt of gratitude to the writer of this post @abh12345. He has helped me grow and kind of taken me under his wing. Of course I feel a debt of gratitude to him that will never be able to be fully repaid.
But without even asking, I know what Asher will want me to do when I get some real SP one day. He will want me to grow the community and would encourage me to spread it out. Of course not everyone is as humble and gracious as Asher, but its something that everyone should always think through and find out.
Is it in our own interest for the platform to grow? Or is it time to milk as much out of this cow before the milk runs dry?
I know what my "big supporter" would want, but obviously I have an easy choice. I would advise everyone to have that conversation though, because that's the only way we can discover solutions to any dilemmas we may face.
Touch them with 10 or 20 % a little as a reminder of gratitude but for the most part, if they are supporters of content and don't need your support, they would be happy to have you pay it forward to others.
Correct, if they don't understand supporting new lower members than there is something wrong but you never forget those who helped you either. People change but the past is still real.
I'm not sure that means less votes for new comers, I assume you still on occasion cast a (what newcomers would refer to) a crumb there direction. I can not even fathom a full power vote from a whale, I had a couple of comments of mine voted by an extremely large dolphin, and was floored by the value of it. So less votes I doubt, controlled votes I can see. You have no idea if they are a real person as in acting for the good of others or just a person looking for a quick money fix. I do a lot of voting for new users, I have recently had to pull two votes, and mute two people, for plagiarism, which I consider theft. So a whale being cautious on votes does not concern me, we vote for who we think are real, and a lot of that comes to voting for and with people that joined during the same time frame, because like @paulag says "As my rep grew, so did the rep of these accounts" I do not see your voting style as "selfish".