@smooth, Do you really think most average users even know the size of the reward pool or how it works? Most of them still think stinc pays them for being here or some magical thing. So I'm not sure 90% of the users here would even understand this conversation, let alone stop being driven by "free money" promises because of it.
You aren't wrong about the "whys" but I think the experiment will prove no change in majority user behavior.
Honestly, we all keep yapping about potentials, when turning off self voting for once and for all, would quite literally end nearly every problem but bot rings and voting circlejerks, which are NEVER going to be completely eradicated, anymore than anyone has completely eradicated collusion from poker games yet in 200 years.
That's just not possible. In fact a huge portion of the voting power now goes through bots (a while ago I was told 30% and it may be even higher now) which means many people it isn't even literal self voting any more. Stakeholder delegates to bot then pays bot to vote for stakeholders posts (possibly on a different account). Stakeholder then gets the money back from the bot.
Even if this particular loophole were plugged there are an infinite number of ways to obscure self voting.
Not really, but larger stakeholders who allocate most of the money do.
LOL true!
I don’t belong on this thread but have to comment.
What?! You burst my bubble. All this time I thought SteemitInc was paying for my penny payouts!! What is a gal to do now? 😉
Interesting topic of discussion!