I will try not to choke, but I guess I see the fat kid as the guy/girl with good content on Steemit that nobody pays any attention to and rarely upvotes.
If I can utilize the system to get more kids to sit at the table, perhaps the good content gets noticed and rewarded more. At the very least, people should have some posts that show the positives and negatives of the upvoting system so they can make their own decisions. Unfortunately, many of them are blindly donating their money with little or no reward for doing so. On the flip-side they get bombarded with people telling them these services are bad but with little explanation. All the while, they think they see people making a shit ton of money off of the upvotes.
Even worse, most of them are just abandoning the platform altogether and taking their frustrations with them to share with other people that might consider joining and investing in the platform. They aren't acting with higher goals in mind, they're just quitting and that changes nothing.
As for me, I make very little off the paid upvotes, but it does help grow my audience. If I was clearing 100 SBD a day in profit and another 30 SP, it would be one thing, but I'm a very tiny fish. Perhaps we see different solutions to the same problem. I don't know for sure. I do thank you for your comments though (except maybe the choke on the cake thing).
The disconnect here is that you dont understand the math.
The rewards pool is a commons.
In order for you to have your bite of cake everybody elses' bite gets smaller.
If the stake delegated to the bots was taken out of the votes, everybody's vote triples.
How happy would you be when not just your vote, but all those people voting for you have their votes tripled in value?
Then folks wont be leaving and they will tell their friends this game makes sense.
The people delegating know this is true, most of the bot operators know this is true, not many newbs know about this.
Things are this way because those with the keys to the code think its funny to slap cake out of fat kids' hands.
Change isnt coming from them.
The only way to alter this is to alter people's behavior by making them aware of facts they dont have.
The people with the keys know this and it is why they upvote content like yours and remind people that voting content like mine will end their gravy train.
Its worse than high skool.
If you want more kids with more cake at your table, tell them all is not as it seems here.
We had an experiment going that would have proven all this but instead they forked the code because slapping cake out of fat kids' hands is more entertaining when you get to spread that cake on your whore paid for by your advantage in the math.
Rather than spread the wealth they chose more debauchery.
Lets hope any fat kid choking is purely metaphorical.
The rewards pool is to reward 'good' content, just because you can buy rewards doesnt mean you should.
If all you were interested in was exposure, you could decline rewards.
But nobody will do that because unless everybody did it it would cost you alot of money.
So, there is no interest by those with the keys to change this.
Fat kids just keep losing cake.
The best argument I have heard yet. Much appreciated.
Just to show you I have a sense of humor. Here -
Its not an argument, it is the facts.
I present them as an act of selfdefense.
Until they are generally known the schemers are winning.