Thank you so much for shedding more light on the @tribesteemup community! We have also started a TSU affiliate account, @earthtribe, that we are currently growing for more membership space in our community, and also @freedomtribe, that is an open community that has similar values (whom TSU also supports, and will be supporting even further soon, let me know if you want for info on that). We seek to unite conscious content supporters under one banner, to support deserving content creators across the board, from many different angles simultaneously.
The whole self-voting thing seems to be a heavily debated topic. Reading this makes me never want to self-vote @earthtribe again (only once so far). However, when dealing with your personal account, we have always held the philosophy that if you do not support your own content 100%, then why are you creating it? To me a 100% self-vote on your own account means you 100% support and agree with what you published. But this is all interpretation, I will create an article about this subject to open up some discourse. How do you feel about self-voting personal, non-whale accounts, provided that the self-votes are less than 20% of the total voting activity for that account?
Self-Vote.
If you do not... Why?
I don't understand the no self voting concept...
If you don't help yourself, how can you help others.
Unless its an issue of how the algorithms work to spread the post or valuate currency for the group.
Many poeple on here feel you should only vote on other's articles and not you own, to 100% support the community, however I, and apparently many others as well, feel that using one or two of your daily votes every day on yourself is appropriate, provided you have created something worth your up-vote. The finer points of the "you shouldn't self vote" argument comes from whales exclusively self voting, which actually does hurt the system quite a bit.
The complexities of these things is the number 1 inhibitor to mass adoption.
Facebook basically does everything for you from a to z. That is why our fabulous fluoride-ridden zombie population cannot easily transfer to a platform like this. It needs to be easier to monetize content without control systems that do not actually check and balance the system to not skew in any direction based on the actions of large holders. If we allow a few to have the power to alter the course for the many with the click of a button... what have we succeeded in but creating a less functional system that promotes keeping the small man small and the big man big.
I see potential, but that is all. Steemit, I support your potential.
Also, anarchy means sovereign identity. If I do not wish to identify with the group perception, or if I disagree with it, and my value decreases, where is the evolutionary margin? We are fighting oppression with new systems, right? Well... If we are ignoring the contrast, the minority and the individual, we will get the revolving door and wind up back in a system of (few benefit off the many).
I'd like to know the system works to prevent this... and if it doesn't than it is no better.
Human error will always always always exist. Give power to another, he will potentially abuse it. Give power to a group, some may abuse it. Give power to the entire population, some will abuse it. Only when we do not correct the abuse and redirect our energy does it make any real harm.
regulation vs free market
distributing the capacity to wield currency amongst humans is done by creating containers that will provide a natural ecosystem for some and a unproductive/unconducive environment to others. Some will succeed in climbing Everest and others will succeed in diving the mariana trench. What is the beneficial party of Steemit?
Is it content creators?
Is it thought leaders?
I will agree that something should be done about so few people on this platform holding too much power, especially since many of the whales are not supporting the community effectively, and mostly just themselves instead. I know the Steemit system is far from perfect (as most systems are), however I am proud to be a part of it, since it has many more positive aspects than negative, and we actually have more of a voice for change than other platforms. There is a huge public outcry that has been circling Steemit for several weeks now, calling for @ned to give us an update as to what is occurring with the platform. There is also a major shift taking place in this time of low activity, that is giving certain conscious support sub-groups like @tribesteemup way more power on the platform. If more significant delegations were received from whales to subsidiary groups of TSU like @earthtribe, @freedomtribe, and @teamgood, the Steemit system would work more in the favor of the people who work hard to create a better world and platform.
Aho! Then may it be so!
Indeed my friend. Sorry I got slammed with trimming out of nowhere, I will call you as soon as I get a free moment brother... my bad.