RE: The Big Voting-Game CHANGE Proposal
I don't see why it is bad, gambling with steem power. It is just an up vote and all up votes cost steem from the total pool. If a big part of the people like to use it for gambling Steemit is delivering that service and thats good for Steemit. Maybe this free gambling will attract more people to Steemit and let them invest in SP because there is a minimum to take part.
I really don't see the difference between using SP to promote content that you like or a game (gambling is a game), an up vote will cost exactly the same and in both cases it brings satisfactory to the user. Please let the market decide if gambling belongs on the platform. If the users want it it is good for Steemit.
However, I can understand that Steemsports is polluting the trending posts, but isn't it better to separate content and games and exclude games form the trending content. Same counts for porn, if there is a big market for it let Steemit do it, but separate it from the other content. Enforcement on a blockchain platform is a big sin in my opinion.
This is exactly the problem. You don't take the money from your pocket and gamble it. You take the money from a pool that belongs to all of us. And the more that is taken to go towards this game, the less there is for other authors. In other words, it is not your money to play with, it is up to all of us to distribute. But if we first put this money through a filter that does its own redistribution then 50% of what goes through there gets stuck as SP.
Free gambling does not exist. What you mean is a free bet, and a free bet is a very hard sell. People don't buy it.
The upvote doesn't cost you anything. In fact, you gain a curation reward back even if you lose the bet. The upvotes accumulated by many people upvoting the post costs everybody else. When you have 100 posts all making $5 rewards and you have one post making $100 payout, each time somebody adds their vote to that $100 post, rewards are taken from the other 100 posts we voted for. We voted less on them, but only because they did not attempt to buy votes.
I agree with this. But gamble with your liquid steem or SBD, not the money that we are all responsible for redistributing. That is not the purpose of your vote.