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RE: Help Fix Steem's Economy!
My take on the 50/50 curation thing is that yeah, you will in theory lose a bit of your author rewards but you will also be getting extra curation money from the posts you vote on, so in the long run, it might balance out.
There's also the chance of getting more votes your self since more people would be voting out there trying to find the best authors to put their votes on so the lost of 25% might not even hurt you that much in the long run.
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I just don't believe the theory would work. It assumes firstly that those who are currently self-voting at 25:75 would do it less at 50:50. There is no evidence to suggest this. So now those in effective communities need to use more SP to reward minnows the same as the otherwise would have - and these minnows get nothing for their 50% curation anyway, which was your idea on why it could remain fair.
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Why are people in these communities “rewarding minnows” instead of rewarding creators of the content that they like?
This notion that we must reward all of the minnows is at the core of most of the problems with this platform. This is supposed to be based on social media concepts (and investment/stakeholding).
Do you go around Facebook or YouTube and only look for posts and videos from unknown users who get no attention just to give them a like or an upvote? Or do you just vote them up because you enjoyed the content?
Why does one’s wallet size matter so much here when it comes to who deserves your vote?
Very fair point, but I must say that that it's far more common than not for a whale to continue to upvote and engage with their fellow whales because they have more earning potential for them.
This leaves a small window for interacting with others, which would make this place retain and attract more people, which is healthier for the long run.
I struggle to find whales that are committed to providing quality upvotable content, yet as you know, the posts are still upvoted and supported (and realistically for reasons likely outside of it being good content).
The wallet size doesn't matter - it is our community based discussion which does.
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