Are you with me on that or do you think someone with a real good post should always deserve a full upvote, even though he earned a lot of money with it?
If it is that great of post, sure, they deserve another upvote. It is the best way encourage good posts.
Let's look at it this way. Right now your post has earned $2.67. To many minnows, that would be more than what 20 posts would get combined. So, should they stop upvoting since you already made a multitude more than they have?
Also, one of those big payout posts might be the only post that author has. A big payout might encourage them to make more post of a similar nature.
I do upvote the big posts, im just not giving 100%. I would prefer upvoting posts which i believe are undervalued and i believe a 1000$ blogposts is almost always overvalued. Everyday i go to a cafe and there is that friendly young lady working for 8bucks per hour always smiling. Thats where my tip goes to ;)
By the way the 2.67 is mostly out of the usage of randowhale and i agree it depends of the author and the time invested.
Well, we all have choices to make.
I worked in a coffee/dessert shop while I was in college taking a full course load. I was night weekend manager within a couple of months working there. I moved on from there to working at as the assistant manager then the manager at a movie theater, still taking a full course load in college. My final year in college, I also picked up a morning newspaper route. The paper manager begged me to stay, because it was the best service the route had seen since she managed it. But, I graduated and never had to wake up early, stay up late or wear a tie for work again. ;)
A bit off topic but isn't it funny how we continue to help people who don't really need help. Not saying its a bad thing just an interesting dynamic. A while back Kanye was trying to get donations to start a shoe line or something like that and people were giving him money.
Kanye has probably blown more on booze and clothes than they will make in their life yet they are giving him money to start a business.
Then you look at thigns like the grammy parties and the gift bags and stuff they give out with tens of thousands fo Dollars worth of free iphones and electronics and whatnot to celebrtiies who probably already have 10 of them.
I'm not saying its bad and not suggesting we all adopt socialism by any means I'm the biggest capitalist you'll ever meet and I think rather than whining we should all work harder, be more creative, find ways to benefit our own lives but I just think its an interesting dynamic.
And the irony comes from those celebrities who complain about other rich people and hand outs, when they get handout all the time due to their fame.
On a similar note to your restriction.
There is a person on STEEMit who only seems to post about the money he makes from doing nothing and people keep giving him more. That is one powerful hoodoo he's got going.
I totally agree with you. I think that for the health and long term growth of steemit we should encourage new users. If I see a post at $1,000 that's awesome for the poster but honestly imho almost no blog post is worth $1,000 unless the cured cancer somehow in the post so i would much rather use my limited power to reward a new creator who's doing big things and not getting noticed.
in a way i think that will help the whales and bigger guys anyways as that is good for the long term growth in the platform which will benefit them more anyhow.
I dont think reaching $2.67 is that big of a challenge even for a minnow. If they post good content and interact with a lot of people it can happen in a second. My first couple days on here I had a post do $75. I agree with @steemboys that if someone has made $1,000 off a blog post personally speaking i would rather go spend my vote on somone who is doing good thigns on here and maybe not getting the attention they should be getting.
thats the nice thing about steemit is you can do with your power what you want, @steemboys can support who he wants, i can support who i want etc.
Trust me... most minnows don't even get $1.00 from their posts. Granted, I have seen some crazy numbers for introducemyself posts, but a lot of posts continue on without getting a $0.01 of notice.
I agree even a month on the platform with a decent following I have my penny posts but then again one of my first posts on here I simply asked a question and post got to $75. If people post consistantly, support other and interact with others they'll make some money