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RE: In Response to Shayne's Post - A Tale Of Two SteemIts.
I disagree with you. The selling of votes breaks the 'subjective proof of work' and the locking-in elements of Steem that are required for good governance of the collective budget. They are better than the circlejerk prior to linear rewards in that it's more accessible, but we can do better and bought voting is a big part of why we aren't. There will be networks similar to Steem that have better governance, and there is a very good chance they'll topple us precisely because we are so corrupt.
Steemit votes have value. I don't see how any blockchain could prevent the selling of upvotes.
It's not necessarily about the selling of votes but the poor use of votes. There are many ways we can hold each other accountable for our voting behaviour, some currently in the consensus rules but also others that have not been accepted as consensus rules.
Yeah you should upvote your comment. I would but it wouldn't count.
Your disagreement is noted and appreciated. The discussion is important and although sometimes it gets tedious part of the process.
I think corrupt is a poor choice of words though. It is a financially motivated site. I don't think that is corruption. After all it is a stake based system.
It is stake based, but it's the idea of stake providing power without responsibility that is allowing us to let the place rot. Either we have power and responsibility, and violating that responsibility would be corruption, or we have power with no responsibility ("it's my stake and I can do whatever I like with it"), which is utterly flawed.
Oh demotruc, responsibility to whom and what? On behalf of whom or what.
I agree it might be a flawed concept and some of the behavior is probably self distructive for large stakeholders, but I can't find a moral flaw in selling, renting and leasing an asset to someone else.
Responsibility to the community. It's by community consensus that power is granted, responsibility should come along with it. Steem is a project in collective governance, it's not just a social networking site. For it to work that has to be recognized, even if the goal was simply to be a social network that pays.
If it undermines the system as a whole, which is owned by not just you but every other stakeholder, that is a moral flaw.