A problem I see is that it's impossible to flag investors, who are not posting anything, but delegating their Steem Power or always voting special people up. The flag wars between @berniesanders and @haejin is a good example for that. Without @ranchorelaxo @haejin's posts wouldn't go to the moon.
I agree with you on that one, but I'm not so much bothered that much about abuse anymore. First, I'm using my 10 votes a day, which means abusers can't abuse my Steem Power. They are abusing the Steem Power of people who vote less than 10 votes a day.
Second, I have already proposed a solution to abuse problem. It received some feedback. If that solution is implemented, the abuse as it is happening now will not be possible in the future.
If it is not implemented, then it is the problem of the people who don't use their daily 10 voting rights.
And frankly, even though Steemit is an interesting project, it's not the only platform. There are a lot of other credible platforms and ways to monetize your content, if you want to.
I have a hard time voting less than ten posts/comments a day.
That's good for you! If every Steemit account voted at least ten times a day on posts they genuinely like, we wouldn't have any abuse problem on Steemit!
There would still be abuse. We would still have upvote bots that cost about 2-3X the reward pool draw which compounds with regular use, we would still have the comment farmers, and we would still have the misused down-votes. But there would be less of the reward pool pie for them to take if people did what you say.
I had to say there wouldn't be any reward pool abuse.
Comment farming, misused down-votes, and abuses like that can't be prevented with 10x upvote per day.
Good point! I haven't seen it this way yet! Calming thought! Looking forward to what is being implemented! :-)