Nice self-defending attitude on one criticized comment.
This is from reblog post - $0.15 all to author!
Edited: I noticed the re-blog.
I'm just saying that the idea of featuring authors in your post was supposed to give new ones visibility and a chance at future visible content. The way it has been running has been open to abuse and centralization. Many who do these don't even acknowledge the fact that they cash in 50% of the SP themselves, and god knows how many of those accounts are legitimately new users. I see many of them have no verification whatsoever, and giving the authors who have the followers and followers from whale-accounts the freedom to keep doing this in light of "featuring new users", now that the re-blog option is there and ready to be used, is kind of obsolete.
Unless we want to keep the SD and SP getting collected and re-cycled from the same people to the same people and back to exchanges in an ever so declining price, we should change the way they work. Of course I am not accusing anyone of specifically harming the economy by having many sock-puppet accounts they feed with SD and SP, I'm just saying its really easy to abuse it this way.
Now that the re-blog is there to do what "featuring new author" did before, start using that. Instead of being the raywilliamjohnson of Steemit where you are just a middle-man for other authors time and content. A middle-man who takes a pretty hefty fee nonetheless.