@beeyou made a post about this and honestly it bummed me out because it would run contrary to everything that we stand for.
It would destroy engagement, curation rewards would be screwed as each people would just upVote themselves and not give a fuck about the platform.
We would see lots of pictures, memes and Zappls as mere placeholder posts to self upVote and then comment and upvote your own comments.
Some people would attempt to flag but with most people self voting they will lose a Battle of numbers.
I give it about two weeks before all Redfishes leave followed by the minnows and all that will be left are dolphins and whales self voting themselves.
Investors would look and see people leaving disillusioned but would like a stake in the money printing business so they invest and self upVote like the rest and continually pump the funds outside.
People would start to power down because they don't want to be the person to be left holding the bag and so it becomes a race to get out and sell as much as they can.
People would have moved to a different platform and hope the culture is right.
Teh numbers keeping dropping and the only people left are those still waiting for their powering down.
I think it is a folly to wait for Steem inc to save the platform as the only thing they care about is how SMT will be so great it will be Huuuuuge!
Meanwhile because of the dumping steem prices are so low and those who are still powering down begin to panic as they will be the ones to hold the bag.
It is a post apocalyptic scenario unless we take everyone and fix teh culture it might be reality as like the comments that you used to drive this point.
I'm hopeful that we don't need everyone, just the usual 10% that normally affect change. I think that means roughly 6,000 give or take, of the daily active users (although, we might actually get away with a smaller number).
The sad thing is, our solution takes time. It's not going to happen in a week or in a month or maybe even in a year. And in the meantime, there will be other users showing up like grumpycat or haejin or take your pick that will throw things for a loop, plus there will be HF 20 (Velocity) which is supposed to turn on the floodgates, along with the SMTs and the community and the hivemind, all that's been talked about dropping this year.
People don't seem to move until someone is actually taking their stuff, not just threatening to do it. In the case of Haejin, he's been flagged now for over 8 weeks, but it took months of this for anyone to move, and with the rise of STEEM, he's back to well over 1% of the reward pool again, and he's on the verge of breaking a 79 reputation ranking to boot, with over 29,000 followers/bots/duplicate accounts.
I'm the hold the line advocate. But even I know there won't be much to hold onto if something's not done by someone. And the only ones any one of us can potentially rely on with any great certainty are ourselves.
Will we be enough?
Thanks for the reply Mav, I'm with you on what you say. Things could fall out and collapse rapidly with the 'full asshole' movement!
Chin up though, league day - when I get round to the post!