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RE: Support Fyrstikken in his fight against abuse of power
Whale voting, even by delegation proxy, starves the little guys.
The only valid reasoning I have seen for delegation is for steemit account to get by on the delegation rather than give actual sp to new accounts.
Here is an example of how it helps https://steemit.com/curation/@curie/ways-to-support-curie-hardfork-18-edition
I would be interested in the data and examples you have about this starving the little guy that creates quality original content.
I don't propose that not starving the little guy gets us 'better' content.
In fact, it will probably get us less polished work.
However, I'm on the side of the 1 million $100 investors rather than the 10 $100,000 investors.
The math is also showing that buying, holding, and not mining is a sure fire loss of 9,5% per year once we stop pumping.
In the 6 months prior to the whale voting experiment it was impossible for the little guys to come here, blog, and gain enough traction to matter in the math.
One could only hope to get hit with whale largess.
Curie was instituted to mitigate against this fact, but only for folks that were willing to post 'non-controversial, non-Steemit related' content.
So, curie is in favor of free speech but only so long as it meets the requirements, they are not rewarding the folks that add flavor to the mix, just the folks that add vanilla, imo.
I called that out, partly for this reason: If the crips or the bloods came into your neighborhood and began to dole out favors to some and punishments(in this case ignore lists) to others would you join in their reindeer games, or denounce them?
Do you think having gang members banding together to rule the roost will up your home's value, or decrease it?
Does this help you gain perspective?
I have only been here for a short time so I appreciate the perspective from a more veteran member. I still think having a strong core community with an even delegated distribution of voting power and bandwidth would deal with the gang scenario you mentioned. This would also eliminate the need for curie type profiles.
That is, in effect, what happened when the whales made the other whales stop voting, the little guys started getting fed.
The playing field got leveled, a little.
The folks that were against that lined up on the delegate sp side so that they could skirt the rules and put the guilds on the blockchain where it would be harder to detect/less visible for the average users.
If the whales delegate all their power, again, we will go back to what was before, only those fortunate enough to have gotten splashed with whale droppings will matter in the math.
We have already seen what happens when the little guys have a reason to swarm, our numbers start to grow, rather than stagnate.
This drained reward pool has put a damper on that, but I got hope we will come back from these poor decisions.
What a mess, I guess I joined at the worst possible time. Its still a nice way to get things out to the public regardless of the current situation.
Yes, when the growing pains get swamped in the feed things will be better.
Either way, the coin it's self seems sound.