If I wrote 3 fantastic posts every day, the best the blockchain has...
I'm in favor of a completely free and fair marketplace of ideas.
You earn whatever you can and I'm not going to take any of that away from you, unless you're violating some specific, quantifiable community standard that EVERYONE is held to equally (including the top ranked whales and witnesses).
The only "problem" seems to be when the game itself is configured to protect and boost the winners.
Without the game in the system, it may as well be just give 1 vote a day to plonk wherever one drops it, as the return is the same regardless.
Yes, and this, I would argue, would be more fair than rewarding people for band-wagon-voting.
Band-wagon-votes are not intelligent critiques of content, they're just cynical money grabs.
YOu're the one who seemed to be suggesting that the top-dogs should "take a break" in order to let the small-fish have more of a chance.
Randomizing upvotes might not produce "headlines", but it would encourage Organic Growth.
You don't want to entice new steemians with visions of huge payouts, they'll only be disappointed and start bad-mouthing the platform (like @starworld).
What we want to try and do is give everyone a fair shot.