But who's to say what is valuable and what is not? What is pleasing and valuable to you may not be the same to me. Also given the kind of communities that are cropping up lately, it's going to be hard to control the kind of content that flows into the platform. If I use Appics and get a $20 post payout, does that make it less valuable or over payed? I think we need to be a little bit more open when it comes to the kind of content we expect from the platform. I don't believe there's anyhting like shit posts anymore, everyone & every content has an audience, you just have to pick what's for you & leave what's not. Same goes to the Steem DApps.
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You could say that if determining value came into the mind of any of those that delegated to bots which accounts for almost 30% of the reward pool payouts. You could say that if the vote cap for Dtube posts werent a fixed number and dtube curators didnt just look at a name instead of the content and SP holders werent encouraging quantity over quality.
I can only point to Curie and OCD as big SP holders that arent like that.
If you knew that there was any chance at all that one of your videos could ever get 100-200$ and top the trending page, would you not try to create such a video? But you know the system doesnt work that way. You know that by doing something that would require much more work you would be losing so much money.
There is a cap on payouts for creators that discourages added effort.
You could say "something has value" in the context of Steem for some people but the votes arent driven by that. They are driven by the fact that the VP being at 100% is a waste of money and the post is worthless after 7 days.
Then there are the objective factors to consider which i touched upon as well. If you mumble your way through a video and the way you express yourself is extremely poor while being an extremely aggressive individual that bullied his way into votes, is that value there or is it just racketeering?
What if youre a terrible musician by any known metric, cant hit a tone if your life depended on it, does that provide more value then the 100 quality musicians entering openmic every week?
Those are twisted values because value is not a factor here. Some things are opinion based. You can like one personality more then another but many things you can boil down to objective parameters with which you can determine the outliers from the general population.
What steem did and still does is reward not only the outliers but on the other side does not care who they reward through bots and vote selling.
The values are indeed twisted here.