Oooookayyyy... thinking things over again:
So Steemit is just like our society. But it also is not. I haven't spend any money until now for Steemit. I haven't bought me a lottery ticket. I have just invested my time to participate. I am though allowed to participate with investing my time as a lottery ticket. So Steemit is fair in it's way. But I have to admit:
I don't want the whole world to be one big lottery! ;-)
And when we want to get more people to play the Steemit lottery, we will though have to care for a certain kind of fairness. You know my point @surfermarly: I just wish for a better interface, better functions... a bigger draw pot we can still put our hand in and rummage around to chose a ticket without getting stucked.
I tried an app for that yesterday, but I couldn't even login with my phone. It would be better to improve some things on the frontend itself.
I'd have so many ideas for it... what about a category "lost and forgotten", showing posts older than 3 days, that didn't get a vote until then? What about a function, where the author of a post can chose the best comment and show it as the first one on top, so people can't upvote comments to the very top, the author doesn't even agree to?
There are many chances to improve things and provide more fairness/equality. The chances that your lottery ticket gets drawn should at least be some kind of equal. Or it will be a lottery people lose their trust in. We already are on that way.
That's cute :-)
With regards to votes on comments, I'd even go one step further: self-voting should become expensive! Whenever one decided to vote their own articles or comments it should be punished, directing 50% of the allocated MVESTS back to the rewards pool - or even to a seperated pool which could be used for Steem promotion, to finance meet-ups or whatever community building events.
I really believe we need to force people to think more about the community and less about themselves.
From my point of view, Steemit will not solve these problems, it's gonna be the SMTs.
I'll be off surfing now (waves in real life, no computers) - yeeeehaaa! :-)
I agree. Have fun calming waves with waves!
:-)