Yeah I agree. I think any system were people govern themselves will always be susceptible to scam artists because there is no real authority to put them in their place.

I just feel this platform put very little thought in at least making it difficult and time consuming for people to be able to abuse it. It takes now work at all, just somewhat deep pockets to get the ball rolling, make some whale friends and start one massive circle jerk.

If haejin just received money from the minnows that are actually reading his content (even though i think it is okay TA at best) and was getting $10-50 a post I wouldn't have a problem. It is when starjuno, Ranchorelaxo and the rest of the gang instantly vote his 20 minute video, knowing damn well they haven't seen the content and they just have a scam going.

At least if there was some sort of tiered reward system, where it got exponentially more difficult to receive rewards beyond say $10, then $25, then $50, etc. And then no vote can be worth more than say 10% of the current total. Then you have him with his $15 minnow votes, then his whale friends come along and can only add $1.50.

It just makes zero sense for these posts to be worth $300. Meanwhile you have people providing solid information on everything from setting up a masternode, a good recipe, travel blogs. And to top it off these people continue to respond to replies and engage in discussions. What do they get $1.50