First I want to clarify that I hold Ben in high regard and I highly value is input. We have agreed on a lot of stuff in the past but on this we disagree.
Steemit used to back a guild called something I don't even remember. They would simply not vote anything political according to them.
Ironically this is a political statement. The biggest guild wouldn't upvote anything political which would encourage people not to write about politics and would push people to become even more apolitical than they already are.
Elected curators... people who want to delegate their curation already have many option.
When Steemit Inc uses their stake to vote the only consequence is that everyone control a smaller portion of the reward pool. The reward pool isn't bigger.
It's in Steemit Inc right. They are investors too. They should do it carefully and so far that's what we've seen.
I believe @benjojo supported the MSP with a huge delegation in the past and deserves much respect for this.
The support by Steemitinc(mrdelegation) of applications like dtube/utopian-io is great to see and I agree they aren't just sitting on their stake.
I wouldn't call the 3.5m delegations last year careful, as their were no instructions given to these accounts, and personally think they 'paid' themselves and each other too much.
Proven quality curators like yourself for example would benefit from extra delegation, and if the accounts were decided carefully and monitored I don't see a big risk here.
Thanks for the reply.
I love what Steemit did with @surpassinggoogle, Utopian.io, Dtube, dlive, dsound and dmania.
It's always a case by case thing.
Indeed.
So if each case was monitored then there could be scope for more of this I think.