Yo
If you check out who is being flagged by @berniesanders, it's not the minnows buying the votes (99% of the time), it's the minnows selling votes (to themselves), mostly with @freedoms's delegated SP.
This has to stop before whales will consider delegating to curators, because it's much more profitable to delegate to these guys, instead of me for example, as I'd only be able to offer the weekly delegation rewards.
You are right though, large SP holders need to look further than this week and into the next 2/3 years. The constant spreading of the rewards pool will make the community grow, which should in turn raise the popularity of the platform, and the price of Steem.
Find me a delegator yo!
If there were cheaper alternatives that's what these minnows would go for instead and they wouldn't have to self upvote to desperately scramble to make their money back.
These minnows should not be delegated to.
Whales should spend 2 minutes researching who they plan to lease their SP to. The minnow/dolphin can apply with a nice post, provide reports, even promote the delegator if they want to be promoted.
If you gave delegated SP to these people for $0, do you think they would all of a sudden become 'good' users?
Got to pick the decent folk, and watch what they are doing .
I agree with you, but currently there's no way to hold freedom accountable for his negligence. Only the buyers. And although downvoting them is necessary, it won't stop people like that coming to the platform to make money that way unless they see options that they can do instead. Such as curating.
Right now we have a platform full of content creators making money, but because the distribution of wealth is not spread out we have too few curators with significant SP to reward with.
Imagine if when arriving on steemit (or another application) a minnow could immediately apply for a job as a curator, and the whales could have their criteria written on what standards a curator has to meet to get the job. Within 2 to 3 weeks after applying for the job if that minnow meets the criteria (eg. Voting many accounts) THEY GET THE JOB. That would bring so many people to steem imo.
That would be awesome :)
I hereby apply for content curator!
@curie make a shed-load of gross curation profit each week. Looks more like a business than a support the community deal. Their curators and introducers are paid a lot too.