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RE: steemit is not a meritocracy

in #steem8 years ago

What you've suggested is known as the framing effect: where people react differently to a particular choice depending on how it's presented.

In this case, I presented a perceived loss because users were being rewarded large bounties while my posts were not so successful. By framing it in terms on my gains, you're suggesting I should be satisfied.

But the point of the article isn't really the rewards I did or didn't receive but the feeling of inconsistency, imbalance and unfairness in the way rewards are awarded.

By reframing you risk ignoring those feelings, or using the re-framing to reconcile the dissonance between what you believe to be true and you see as being true.