No, but your readers, like me can make a determination on what is "effort" and what is not
Ah, so effort is what determines a post's value. So by your own definition, anything that is "of low effort" should not be rewarded much, but high effort should.
Therefore, long technical posts with lots of personal pictures or long vacation posts 'deserve' more rewards than short form content, according to your line of thinking. Irregardless of the fact that many of those such posts get almost no views, and no interaction. Plus to be frank, the latest news has a lot more interest to a lot more people than some vacation photos or a technical post with limited audience. If you are talking about what actually adds value to the platform, the thing that people are actually interested in talking about and seeing likely adds more real value.
FWIW In general, attention spans are getting shorter and much of the world is migrating towards shorter content and trying to encourage long form content is probably going the wrong direction.
Benchmark oil index, didn't go negative yesterday
While true, it is the quote that analysts/investors/traders around the world quote when talking about the price of oil. A perfect example can be seen on yahoo finance where they simply use the term "crude oil price" and list the current month's future's price:
A number which happened to go negative yesterday for the first time ever due to the contract the price is quoting.
That image above is from my personal platform; you can't find it on the internet
Cool, that's great, so do a post about it! Nothing's stopping you if you are an expert oil trader.
acceptable form of self-voting and also giving 63% of votes to 5 account is considered acceptable or not
So, there are requirements with how many people we must vote each day now, what is that number specifically? And again, make sure you apply it site wide. And yes, everyone should vote their own post. If they don't think it's worth their own vote, they probably shouldn't post it.
Not to forget taking 200K HP (SP) out of the reward pool :)
What does that have to do with anything? First it was about the post "quality", then it was about the number of people I vote for, and now it is about how much I have earned in my 4 years on the site... the goal posts are ever shifting... are you trying to imply that once someone earns a certain amount of SP/HP they are not longer able to earn any more? Again, make sure you apply that site wide and what number is that specifically?
If you do want to go down that road though, look at my accounts on steem/hive and see how much SP/HP I am holding, and that doesn't include what I am holding on a couple exchanges. I am still holding a large portion of everything I have earned, so one could make the argument, again from a purely economical perspective, that it has been better off than had that same SP gone out to those that were dumping it on the open market over the last 4 years...
Not to mention that much of anything I have sold has been bought back, and then some...
Thank you for making your thinking visible. I learned a lot about you that way. I have a little doubt towards the back of my mind, thank you for clearing that up. Appreciated!