That is true. There are other factors to consider too though - the price of STEEM, user engagement, curation rewards for dolphins/minnows. If anything, the experiment should be fun for the 'little people' once the drama over all the downvotes settles.
Why is it important in the long run to figure out how "whales not voting" affects the price? How do you make sure any change in price is not wrongly considered a correlation? For example: We are experiencing a hard-fork right now. The price is going up. Because of the experiment or because of the hard-fork? Well, we don't know and never will...
In terms of user engagement, we see more and more people posting memes instead of high-quality content as they tend to get more rewards for those little funny things without getting votes from whales. On the other hand, we see some people leaving angrily
Curation rewards for minnows and dolphins will go up for sure. Once again, no need to perform an experiment on that
The worst developments I see are that people disliking the experiment are currently being silenced by just tagging them as drama queens, naysayers, whiners, etc... and the fact that there hasn't been any communication about this experiment with normal users beforehand.
Amen to that! The whales can vote in whatever fashion they want and I'm free to express my opinion about the senselessness of this experiment. Isn't this the beauty of Steemit?
That is true. There are other factors to consider too though - the price of STEEM, user engagement, curation rewards for dolphins/minnows. If anything, the experiment should be fun for the 'little people' once the drama over all the downvotes settles.
The worst developments I see are that people disliking the experiment are currently being silenced by just tagging them as drama queens, naysayers, whiners, etc... and the fact that there hasn't been any communication about this experiment with normal users beforehand.
Amen to that! The whales can vote in whatever fashion they want and I'm free to express my opinion about the senselessness of this experiment. Isn't this the beauty of Steemit?
Valid concerns. I don't disagree. At the end of the day though, it is the whales' SP, and they are allowed to vote with it as they please.