RE: Only-Upvote-Others-Athon - Join Up, It's Free :)
I suspected less votes were being applied because more people were upvoting themselves instead of changing their vote percentage, which I suspect low SP accounts don't have that yet. So then why isn't that enabled by default? Then people could actually use a 25% upvote, if they knew that's how things worked.
I think another solution to simplify would be to make the default 100% vote, but have the slider go to 400% (the current 100%). Then that retains the previous measure of voting power people are familiar with, rather than divide it by a factor of 4 yet still use the same measure of 100% while it is a different power. That would help get more upvotes around, even if the self-vote is still enabled on the blockchain.
Thanks for the valued feedback as usual ;)
Unless you have 500 SP, you don't get a slider with which to change vote percentage. All your votes are at 100%, which means you only get 10, before you have to stop and let them recharge for a day.
Again, bad development of features on Steemit.com. It promotes new users to continue doing what they already did. Just keep using 100% even when you get the bar, because there is no info on how the power works. No info for newbs. It's been an issue for over a year, and still not section on the site for how things work...
Steemit is in beta. It should be. There are those (obvious from the financial manipulations ongoing) that just want to maximize short term profits, and I think they are pushing hard to open the floodgates to massive adoption.
I don't think those parties so pushing for short term profits care a fig for the long term success of Steemit, or anything other than their quarterly returns, and this is a threat to Steemit in the long term.
This is why I strongly believe Steemit should first ensure that it's present userbase is widely satisfied (per capita, not per SP) with Steemit's rewards mechanism before opening those floodgates. I care not a fig for my quarterly profits, but do care very much that Steemit succeed in the long term.
There are a lot of things that are attempts to mitigate the weighting of VP by SP, and the slider is one of them. As @baah just replied in another conversation I am having "as long as curation of content is for profit, manipulation of curation for profit will happen", and mitigation cannot succeed.