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RE: Update on Simplicity: Cutting Complexity with Steem 0.17.0
As a minnow going through the few whales downvoting and controling Steemit community
You got it backward. They are not controlling anything, they are giving community control back.
Not from my experience. As long as the old timers who are in the cool kids group get the few whales to auto upvote them and then downvote those who get a little pocket change for good content (that took many hours of hard labor) I see that as a scam. Especially when steemit has promoted themselves as something completely different.
Whales involved in this experiment are auto downvoting whales who autovote the 'cool kids' group. They don't downvote content that wasn't upvoted by a whale prior.
I got upvoted by @dantheman on a post about HF17, which was written and published before the test was announced and that post was downvoted twice by @smooth and @abit. How does that plays with what you wrote about
Please look at my rewards and at the votes I'm receiving and tell me I'm one of the 'cool kids'. Pretty please, with sugar on top.
This "experiment" was not intended to give anyone anything back. This was a false flag operation to level up the rewards, rooted in greed and selfishness.
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@dragosroua
If you look at smooth's votes you will see that he was considerate in using his power only to counter the stake of other whales and didn't vote with 100% unless it was necessary.
When you say it wasn't intended to give anyone anything back you're arguing that it wasn't intended to nullify the influence of whale votes on the reward pool in lieu of the fact that it was clearly intended to do that and that it did achieve that. I have seen it first hand that with just 300SP I could upvote 1 cent a post worth less than 2 dollars and with 10 cents a post worth 17 dollars. It wasn't rooted in selfishness or greed as they gained nothing out of it, calling it a false flag is very simplistic and short sighted.