Welp, after HF19 I tried to understand voting tricks better. That was a mistake, because it resulted in exactly the problem you treat herein. People are trying to maximize their vote power.
All these tricks are debasing Steemit, or at least preventing it from becoming what the rhetoric about it promised: a platform that rewards ppl that post, and ppl that comment and curate.
These rewards are too manipulable for financial reward to be of much use in promoting content.
I think the only way to cure this problem is to simply let each persons vote have the same weight. Varying it by reputation might not be a bad thing. Varying it by how many times someone has voted decreases the motivation for folks to work hard to curate.
Does it make sense to pay someone less per hour the more hours they work? No.
Steemit needs to attack this problem at the cause, which is that rewards from the pool are extracted preferentially by those who are more wealthy.
Ending that inequity will solve myriad problems, and promote curation that does what curation was supposed to do: promote good content.
The reason 99% of author rewards inure to 1% of accounts is not that those accounts are good authors, but that they suck more from the rewards pool because they have more SP.
You got my little $.04 upvote, a follower, and a resteem too.
My rewards have increased by at least ten times.
I used to get $1 to $2 max for a post.
Now I'm consistently getting ten or twenty.
I've had 500 steem days.
I'm selling $100 a day in SBD's and putting it into my
Credit Union Account.
and a thousand dollars every friday
If this is a problem.
I LIKE IT!!
Well, I am happy for you. You have put in effort and time to get there, too, which is admirable.
I hope you only ever have such beneficial problems.
That's all good, and I hope your experience is ubiquitously replicated, but I reckon you'd be just as happy if there were no bots involved, and the rewards you've receive were strictly based on your charm, immeasurable intelligence, and devilish good looks.
L O frig'n L !
yeah...we all got problems ;-)
more quotable quotes from a valued-customer for valued Steemit customers
yer make'n me have ideas here @valued-customer ~smiles~
If they can get the smaller accounts to make fewer votes, while they continue to vote, they can concentrate their power pretty much the same as they always have, regardless of the shift in voting power, which I think was a good change.