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RE: Community Question: If you're an investor who actually buys STEEM, does the popularity of "pick games" attract you?

in #question8 years ago

No. Because it completely undermines the curation incentivisation system in place. There is no need to seek out quality content if you can just sell your vote instead. In my opinion, if we were to fork off and leave their "prediction markets" on a different blockchain while the bloggers continued without them, their model would fail, because @thecryptodrive himself told me they are failing to bring non-steem users on-board because the free bet idea is such a hard sell.

It adds no value to the platform. Their games could very easily continue off site, while keeping the post rewards to themselves.

Another example of an option is to seek sponsorship from one of their supporting whales and create a similar model to #openmic ran by @luzcypher and sponsored by @pfunk.

They could donate a set amount of steem so that the post does not need to be voted on to play the game and those who do vote on the post would be doing so for no added monetary incentive, making its value more accurate.