Thanks for the continual updates. However the problem I have with the smartpoints reward of getting an earlier vote is that it doesn't really make so much sense to me: the system always favors big SP holders who delegate to get smartpoints which means that even having a couple of thousand SP will put me at the end; and the other more problematic issue is that I can just use other services to vote on posts making this system essentially unattractive to even get on board. But perhaps I am understanding it wrong.
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Let's say there is Bob, Andy, Petra, Karen, Ben and Louis:
Bob has 4000 SmartPoints, Andy has 50 SmartPoints, Petra has 1 SmartPoints, Karen 0, Ben 0, Louis 0.
Even if the difference between Bob and Andy is quite big (3950 Points), in case both are following the same curation trail, Andy will be the 2nd spot out of 6 and Petra with only 1 SmartPoints will be in 3rd spot.
That's already very fair towards small delegators, as there is no real value advantage between having 3950 more Points than the next person or 49 Points or even 1.
Nevertheless, your opinion is valued and it's not our objective to get people to abandon other services. We simply wanted to make something fun after completely revamping our platform. If you don't see too many advantages to use it, that's totally fine. No hard feelings!
okay thanks for clarifying! That actually makes more sense now
It's basically the same as any other auto voting service now. That's why it's useless. They keep talking about all this "positive feedback" they're getting, but it's bullshit. No one wanted another shitty auto voting/posting platform. Smartsteem used to be a way for us smaller shareholders to make a little bit of extra steem off of selling our votes so we don't reach 100% vote power. They completely fucked the whole thing and it's become a useless piece of shit. I can't even begin to fathom why they thought this dumbass move was a smart thing to do... but who knows. What they should've done was just adjusted the price for votes and maybe we would have earned a little less off of our votes, but we would have received larger curation now under new steem. They changed the service completely, to something that NO ONE AT ALL (Despite what the stupid fucks will claim on their posts...) asked for in the first place. Steemauto and Steemvoter and shit like that are sufficient and there was simply NO demand at all for another service like it, but these dipshits chose to take that path regardless. They've lost a majority of their userbase and it'll only dwindle further in time as people just stop using it because it's not any different than any other automated service. They not only hurt their bottom line, but they also cost their users a lot. We used to be able to make use of extra voting power and get a little bit with a fee taken out, for them hosting the service. Now? We have another useless site that contributes nothing original or unique to steem in any way. Fucking sad to see, tbh.