Part of what brought me to Steemit was the fact a makeup tutorial made lots of money. It proved that people could and would up-vote whatever, whenever. It felt very anarchic in the voting decisions of whales. today it seems people are giving their votes alot more thought. Trying to get the very most out of curation. This makes it harder for "noobs" to go viral. It also makes it harder to get crazy high curation rewards by lowering the probablity the minnow post you just 100%ed goes viral.
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At the same time it makes the platform shitty since all you need is to set up some bots. Once people realise that the platform is nothing but a vote bot scheme and nothing different from an advanced cryptocurrency exchange platform, they will completely bail out since the most important incentive —content, will be lost.
you haven't thought this through have you?
Agreed. The curator should compare a post's quality against the average level of quality on the platform, not against some ideal level of quality. We should be looking for continuous improvement, not perfection.
A question I often ask myself is, "Are you doing something else with that upvote?"
Great to see you're back on the right track. Focusing on the positives is always the best way to start rebuilding. But be careful, not to get into a state of denial.