I miss being able to climb the ladder without being pushed off. I miss when SP wasn't being delegated into a handful of accounts because that meant there were more eyes willing to look. I miss when people had to work hard and find ways to get eyes on their work and the sense of community we shared when getting to know people was important. All they did was continuously improve. Now people post, buy a stupid participation award, walk away, then wonder why they're losing money instead of earning. Rather than improving, they just do it again until they're so sick of failing they end up quitting. Worse yet, they don't blame themselves because in many ways they have a good reason to blame the system, yet it was their own choices that led to their demise. By the way, if you can't tell, this is why I need a break. I become stressed out just thinking about it. People need to open their eyes though. Many of the people I follow don't even post anymore and I know why. There's no incentive to work hard and do a good job when someone can just come along and kick them to the curb with a few dollars. Like I said in the post, it's putting people out of business. Look at the abuse happening that wouldn't even exist if people weren't offered the tools to aid them in their abusive behaviors. Why I feel so alone pointing this stuff out doesn't help either. So many seem to have their blinders on and those blinders are made of money. They're given the opportunity to embrace the multi billion dollar arts and entertainment industry combined with the incredibly valuable information age. By embracing that and helping people and the platform succeed they can legally manipulate the value of a digital currency in their favor... but they don't even know it. Pardon the ranting....
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Linear reward curve incentivize self-upvote and is at the expense of everyone else. In the long run, it will lead the self-upvoters all powerful. I've talked about this many times.
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Purchasing votes is also a form of self-upvoting and that's also at the expense of everyone else.
Right now, we have a man abusing that form of self-upvote on the trending page, multiple times. Some of those posts have up to TEN self-upvotes and that doesn't even include his own.
I self-upvote my posts and it's always my mission to hand out as much as my self-vote was worth, or more, in the comment section. I want visibility and at the same time I want to reward people for looking. I believe this practice is fair.
On the other hand, that gentleman currently self-upvoting his work to the top of the trending page with the help of promotion bots is doing it to mislead others into voting.
Many new members do not realize people can purchase votes. They think the post is there because it is popular. Someone self-voting with the hopes of turning an ever greater profit using misdirection is a far worse problem. Many of those new members feel incredibly misled, used and abused after finding out the truth.
Advertising is a fact of life, but we do not pay Walmart for leaving a flyer in our mailbox. That gentleman could have advertised his book, then it's up to others to visit his blog and read it if the advertisement was enough to make them feel interested. That's how advertising works. The way this is be handled here falls under false advertising and that could lead to problems like paying fines down the road if they get caught. Steemit could also be held responsible if nothing is done to correct the problem.
I support self-upvote 100%. I have upvoted all of my posts.
The issue with selling vote is the same as the issue with self-upvote and non-linear reward would also take care of this.
Linear reward curve incentivize selling votes at the expense of everyone else who doesn't sell votes. In the long run, it will lead to everyone wanting to sell their votes.
People just don't realize and don't understand how Steem works for the most part. The sooner the solution will be implemented the better.