I think that you point out a major problem that the platform is but it's certainly not the only one. I just saw a lot of some of the people with the most steem power the other day and a bunch of the sames on their self vote and vote for each other. I think that investors are going to think twice about getting into something like that. If we were playing monopoly and someone buys up all the property we can't play anymore, we would have to start over. The same thing might have to happen here.
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I hear you @read3986. Self upvoting, and voting for friends is actually pretty common place. In fact ever since whales started selling their votes to other users in exchange for Steem. It altered the whole spirit and dynamic of the platform to the extent to where people need to promote their posts via whale services in order for it to be seen. Otherwise there is not much of a chance to get noticed.
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I know it doesn't seem right, but unfortunately that's the direction that people have chosen to go with it. There's no way to force whales to engage in manual curation, although many still probably do from time to time.