Certain people will defend this to a GB worth of text, while others will attack it with the same vigour.
Bottom line as I see it, it is a Financial Oligarchy and they do nothing to hide the fact. It's so easy to arrogantly tell someone, "Durp, it's open source and you're free to start your own...". It's a valid point yet as far from reality as one can get. Most people can't afford that kind of equipment or even know how to configure it in the first place. Let's try to keep this reality-based.
Anyone who defends an act of one person influencing curation on the front-end by means of multiple accounts and bots, etc. is obviously not a good person. Just because abuse is built into and encouraged within the steem system doesn't make it good or right. No account should be allowed to be nuked by the actions of one, and that is exactly what can happen.
I understand the base concept when not abused as being beneficial. But in the short month I've been here that's all I've seen is abuse and mis-use (hell, content doesn't even matter any more so long as one has a sufficient Network... you can post pictures of other people's dog crap and so long as your crew upvotes it you all make profit, posting spam, while smashing the opinions of other little fish trying to support other little fish).
It is b.s. I would leave... except I'm not here just for profit, it's sorta fun calling out the Illuminati/NWO 2.0 Wannabes.
And for anyone to defend the ability to nullify the upvotes and potential payouts from 20, 30, 40 or more Red Fish/Minnows by the flag of ONE account (or one person controlling a Network of Accounts) is to listen to someone defending tyranny & oppression. Even in a "made-up" world called a "social site" that "makes up the rules for it's own gain".... bad is just bad. Typing and quoting "the White Papers say it's allowed and encouraged, screw you're opinion" doesn't make it any more good or right.
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