Right, but by ignoring these suggestions for years they exponentially compounded the problem and now only want to consider fixing it because the majority of users are gone. There's no illusion in my mind that this is anything other than a ploy to lure people back.
The question is what is it in it for anyone to come here now that all of the easy stake has been hoarded by whales and we've gone from begging for scraps to praying a crumb falls. I get that there's a disconnect between the haves and the have-nots on this platform, but it's a little late for singing kumbaya and ignoring years of intentional abuse by the power players that created this situation.
Choosing to ignore this problem and run a vote selling service gives what you're saying here zero credibility from my perspective because you are in fact one of the people that chose to enable the shit that led to this situation for your own profit. Stop pissing in the wind and own it. I'm not going to sell anyone lies to help you guys keep getting rich off them.
Steem has been a platform where whales thrive since its inception - it was even designed for that purpose. People should be incentivized to buy into Steem, so they have power in the system. This was the case even more so in the past than today since the stake is far more distributed.
And vote-selling is simply one way for people to cope with the way content-discovery on Steemit (and most other frontends) has been designed. In the past, people were much more reliant on whales upvoting their content, thus gaining visibility; than they are today. Thanks to vote-selling.
Now, should everyone be able to reach trending with their potential shitty content? No. But putting the blame on me, for giving people what they want - I think you're making it a bit too easy for yourself throwing blame around. Especially, since I've still powered up nearly everything (~99%) I made on Steem. You're welcome.
Funny, no one makes that happen more than you.
Don't deny it. Shifting the blame to those that have been trying to prevent it is egregiously disingenuous.
You are directly and personally responsible for creating the situation we're in now. You have continually and strongly advocated for exactly this result. For your profit. You are a perfect example of why this OP will not work, because you'll just game it and maximize your profit.
You are exactly why we need to completely eliminate the potential to extract profit from corrupting curation and replace that with dividends from funding development. Were that more potentially profitable than vote-selling, that's what you'd do.
We don't need to be rid of you. We just need to use your financial interests to benefit our community, rather than allowing you to degrade our community by listening to your specious drivel intended to do nothing more than increase your profits.
I flag trash. You have received a flag.
Congratulations, you used a broken system and people's greed to your advantage. We should holiday in your honor.
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Oh you, twisting my words. Naughty naughty. But to make it very clear: I built a system that I needed myself so I wouldn't be stuck with the horrible content-discovery Steemit provided in 2017.
Once communities are here, I'm sure people will create closed communities, where promotion is forbidden.
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DRAMA!To view or trade
DRAMAgo to steem-engine.com.Haha. Got him.
Wolfie is a bit of a conflicting character.
On one side he indeed is making money off of a broken system helping perpetuate it and on the other hand he is a witness so he needs fly around keeping the appearance of adding value to the platform. Haha.
I used to have a similar frame of mind: "Ill use bots and once i grow i will help others.!"
That is really just a ludicrous idea that simply perpetuates the problem.
How do you fix the problem? Insert a repressive aparatus.