I'm a little divided on this. On one hand, I agree with you about the ideals but there's nothing stopping a big account from auto-voting someone they like. A manual curation trail seems to be a compromise.
Then there's the question of what deserves an upvote from the trail. Is it solely quality of content? What about how the user stakes / sells all their pob? Edit: Also, should number of upvotes from the trail already received be a factor?
Lastly, as the beneficiary of a delegation, I like the idea and I see how it has helped me grow my faster and spread more pob around than I would otherwise have been able to. That said, I don't expect any account to delegate the majority of their stake.
On that note, I would also suggest setting the rewards to 75/25 author-curation and excluding self-votes completely.
Yes! I agree with the abolition of self-voting!
However, I don't know what could be done to prevent someone creating an alt account to self-vote on their other account... Maybe nothing?
If everyone was on board with this, monitoring would help identify these cases and reporting it would let people know who not to vote.
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