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RE: My Biggest Fears For Steem and Steemit - Openly Sharing Reward Amounts - What are we cultivating here....

in #steemit8 years ago

people want to know how popular a post or person is.
That's why every social media tracks likes, views, thumbs up, ect.
The correlation between the popularity of a post and how much money someone makes its common knowledge among users. So changing the dollar amount to a different number like "likes" won't do anything but require you to use a calculator to figure it out.
If it's obvious how much everyone is making who cares? Doesn't that just encourage more heavy and smart usage?

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potentially you are right! But if people drop off like flys as a result, the platform suffers. If the platform is being sold as a way to make money by blogging and you don't make money. People drop off.

Maybe because the comparison can be too easily gauged by a $ amount. I post either way because I enjoy it. But generally speaking if people don't experience what they are being sold...that becomes problematic! In my opinion @krissrage