I support freedom and allowing investors to use their stake as they please.
Okay then, propose a system that allows people to get votes by paying whales but the payment comes out of the pocket of the whale and not the rewards pool, as any other method like the one we had means you had the means and disposal steem to "take" other investors money.
What was happening is like a bank saying to you if you give us some money we'll give you a higher return on interest earned off the top of all interest earned that is dispersed to all the other customers. Meaning they'll scrape out over and above what'd you get normally before dispersing the rest of the pot to everyone.
How hard is that to understand? You are robbing others to enrich yourself.
It wasn't a bad thing if it had been controlled better but the fact is people were raking in several hundred dollars....you definitely weren't the worse offender, probably more of an example of how it should have went but most people weren't using any disciplinary means and were going for a huge chunk of the pie just because they could.
I think the bot system was a good system but I guess the tribes might even be better. Now we can all move to a platform like Steemleo.com and let the whales hoard the precious Steem. Maybe they can sell it to each other? lol
I made like 2 or 3 cents per post. Maybe it would have been 3 or 4 cents if I hadn't done delegations.