I, for one, am tremendously appreciative of both curie and steem guild efforts. IMO, if steemit is going to become a platform that is known for the quality of its content, then we need to constantly encourage more and better voting that's driven by more and better innovation. So it seems to me that steem guild is heading in exactly the right direction.
I was stunned to learn that this is even controversial. This is an oversimplification, but which is better for the platform? A handful of $1,000 payouts that almost no one who joins will ever duplicate or hundreds of $10-$20 payouts that new users have a decent chance of repeating for themselves? As long as votes are going to quality content, it seems like a no-brainer to me.
I do encourage transparency and accountability for quality control and self-votes by guild members, and I trust that the organization's stakeholders also want those same things.
I agree 100%. The Guild is still a work in progress and we are constantly trying to find ways to improve everything about it. When the platform benefits, we all benefit that is for sure.
Very well said. I was on the platform when some of us were getting rewards like that, and clearly things weren't working as well as they should have been. For now, we must do what we can to spread out rewards and make sure good content gets recognized appropriately.