I don't see many YES comments, are they afraid to pipe up?
and I have seen people on discords complaining about how little rewards they earn now.
It's something that irks me, active 2016 accounts with a vote of $0.001.., you see them all the time. They are free to take it all out but don't expect any support from me.
This goes for stakeholders who have 50,000 HIVE and 49,950 is delegated to @ocdb or something that rewards themselves. They may as well self-vote..
Funny how that works with some OG Steem users.. I see one here in my comments now that seems like just the type. They do not seem very happy with my question I asked.
LOL, I know exactly who you mean..., this is why I don't write HIVE content.., you spend several hours reading and responding... 😀
I agree with what you said 100%.
Voting in a circle is the exact same thing as self-voting, just slightly disguised, though.
There is some of that, but many of these people I regard as friends.., chat in discord often and are power-up people. You have seen my BOT (nobody else has, and it's working now!), so that accounts for a percentage + I always have plenty for manual curation.
If someone new comes along (yeah it happens), then I want to be able to motivate them, like you did me. I have a long memory of both good and bad things on HIVE/STEEM.
@bostonadventures springs to mind recently.., new account powers up a load, gets barely nothing.. or did until I started spreading his stuff around. He seems to do better now.
We need another 100 like him.
Greetings @slobberchops ,
Bleujay said yes...and voted yes...
Lovely to meet you.
Kind Regards,
Bleujay
@bleujay also has a substantial stake, so congratulations for not taking everything out 😀
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@solominer ...you really should do this more often...bleujay has only ever had this much fun at Hive on the Frigate of @joshuaslane . ^__^
@bleujay talking about themselves in third person
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Oh yes...we met in Paris....Lovely to see you again!
"Haw! Haw! Haw! Blimey!" 😉 -Keptin
Lovely to see you Keptin....What do you think?
I tend to only post about garden and homestead stuff. I made a poll for what I should be posting about the most and it won by a far margin.
But as someone that has been on the blockchain for a long time, I have some thoughts and wonder if others feel the same or in a similar way.
Ehm, what? Getting returns from ocdb is the same as getting curation rewards basically, not sure what you mean with them voting themselves?
A bad example in retrospect.., I'm tired and a little grouchy tonight. If it wasn't for the larger stakeholders.., there would be no votes of any worth... and @solominer kind of hit a nerve.
no worries just sounded a bit flawed. There are however projects that do that and some thriving, i.e. delegate to us and get a guaranteed vote on your daily posts worth ~10x more than what you could self-vote. Either they give back some token or hive returns but they mainly take into consideration the delegators when curating which is very wrong.
I think my point was that if @usera has 50,000 HP and delegates 99% of it to @ocdb.., and you give them a nice chunky vote for their great post, comment on it, they can't even give you a comment vote back in appreciation, never mind looking at my stuff and voting for it.
The delegation takes away their power and moves it elsewhere. A portion of the stake I feel is good.., but 99% of it rubs me the wrong way.
This is the reason 99% of my stake is my own, because I want control of it. I am not saying my way is the right way, but it works for me. Each to their own ideals.
What you describe above is something akin to the bid-bots in disguise.
oh yeah definitely get that, doesn't matter what APR projects offer, it's a bit meh to have no voting power. There's definitely plenty of accounts doing that though, maybe we need to hike up RC costs for stuff. :P
Thank you @slobberchops for articulating your position...I have been trying to put the same into words for myself as I am of the same opinion.
Appreciate the clarity @acidyo .
You don't see a difference between centralized and decentralized voting?
Are you serious?