Big votes are prone to abuse, so we want to be able to guarantee that they are used for good.
I'm sorry that things suck, most of it is the way steem works and us trying 'to do the right thing' as we don't just want to upvote every crap people pay money for.
But that "IS" the steem concept!
Whales vote for whales to benefit whales
And this is killing the platform.
Extraction of value from the platform does NOT contribute to the platform!
Plankton/minnows post 1,2,3,4 times....... earn $0.10 then leave the "circle jerk" doing it's thing... but that will not grow the base from 400K -> 4m or 40m.
Why can't old whales with rose glasses on see this? (or the 50% leaving stats!)