I'm stunned with this level of hate you have for the @curie guild. Maybe as you said in one of your comments above, you have a long standing idea of the guild.I can't say more than tell you to update your idea of them. @curie by far doesn't fall in this category you have grouped it.
Excuse me?
Any gang that teams up to concentrate rewards to bestow on their favorites while denying disinterested third parties from getting rewards can kiss my,...
You do understand that when a whale votes everybody else loses money?
Dont take my word for it, ask @paulag.
Perhaps you havent looked around at how delegations to the favored few/most willing to pay has decimated curation rewards for everybody else.Maybe you werent here when @curie launched with ned's posting key to rape the pool so that only approved speech could gather more than a few cents per post, but i was.
You know the current state of affairs as normal, but i was here when the whale experiment was proving that taking the highest staked accounts out of the math raised the bottom.
Maybe you worship wealth like it makes somebody a better person, idk.
But i know what ganging up does to rewards for those that dont play along and kiss the gangleader's ass, first hand.
All you got to do is look at how my rewards have dropped off with the advent of the vote bots, delegation leasing, and vote selling.
If those things put quality content on trending and drove searchers to steem for content, i'd bite my tongue, but the facts are the exact opposite.
We are a joke, and that wont change until the rules change.
As long as ganging up is the preferred way to make money here, real people will avoid steem like the f'n plague.
They get enough of that bs in real life.
I will update my opinion of @curie when they apologize for screwing everybody that called them on their bs and disbands, at least then they would have that going for them.