So you saw the value of keeping the reward distribution in the hands of many as opposed to the few, yet if you have people sweating over their "wasted sp" and treating the "game" as "real life dude!" it festers the same attitude that makes people use bid bots, don't you think, in effect "milking" the cow, yeah they might "support" but can you call that curation?
As far as I am concerned, I support people who support the community more heavily than those who don't and, if someone thinks similarly to me but is unwilling or unable to distribute their value themselves, I say automate it, trail a curator who finds value, use it in some way.
This is akin to one step forward and two steps backwards because again it's another milking the cow attitude, yeah a user is getting built but at the cost of everyone else and we know how curation trails are the circlejerk of bidbots and voturbation dressed up.
There is no such thing as a selfless act, there is always a return of some kind which means no matter the sacrifice, something is gained back.
There's no such thing as a selfish act, no matter what is gained it all has to be abandoned eventually.
Automate downvoting, stop fretting over "wasted SP", the rewards ought to be distributed by consideration after the content is consumed and the attention is given, anything else is spreadshits.
you assume that all users bring the same value to the community? That is a pretty big call.
Nonsense. This depends on who is chosen as the manual curator. You seem to assume the worst in all people, perhaps it is reflective?
Again, this is BS. someone can offer a great deal to the community but it is offered to people who can't afford to maintain that person. They still need to eat but their content might be utterly useless to me personally. I want them to keep helping people so, once I have made the decision they bring value, I will support them even if I don't read their content.
profits for who? me? This is about distribution.
this makes no sense to me.
This isn't social media.
You seem to know me so well. It is amazing.
Well, actually this is not true in the physical sense due to a host of reasons as ones potential for focus or attention is not the same as another's and the skill one holds means one can potentially move faster than another and in being able to cover more distance, effectively stretch time. As someone once said, time is relative.
But, even if it is true, it isn't the resources one has, it is how one uses them. You use yours the best way you know how, I use mine the best way I know how which means, we are both maximizers by default driven by our desires. You seem to think you are doing a good job of using the resources available to you, I seem to think I am. But, if you are trying to convince me otherwise, your approach isn't working.
To reward content (other than a pat on the back) takes SP and this means buying in or earning it. If earning it, this takes distribution. if those with SP don't distribute, not much happens. The big picture you talk of is facilitated by people holding the steem they earn as SP and using it to reward content. I do that, do you? Instead of reading, answering and rewarding comments, and instead of reading and rewarding posts. I can instead just find 5 people to upvote and save my attention for more important things like watching TV.
The funny thing is that you are arguing with someone who does their best to engage and reward and improve the Steem experience for as many as possible. Are you working for your own ideals or is the expectation that it is only other people who must live to your own ideals?
it is many things for many people. you might see it as a social media site, I do not, that is just one facet of it.
lol. you do understand what Steem is don't you? separating the financial aspects of the platform fundamentally change the entire use case of the platform.