lower inflation and faster powerdowns, have done nothing to increase the bottom line
They have done a lot to improve the design but there are still a lot of things to improve.
If the high sp accounts spent their time upvoting the zero payout posts
This is not scalable, you need every users to curate to handle all the posts.
If you introduce only negative voting for the high sp holders the animosity towards them is only going to increase.
Animosity towards them is caused by the huge influence disparity, give minnows power and the animosity will go away.
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Those two features appealed to me, I could see lowering the rate, but watching my sp go up when I refreshed the window was nice.
Powerdowns, imo, should have been 10% a month, take it 'all' out in 10 months.
Making this less can only increase sell pressure, and violated the original concept of hold until we are wealthy.
Imo, the whales should vote however they want, but when they empower 'insider' groups that then gouge the rest of us for 'deserving' pay, that is an issue.
The community can decide what they support just fine without gurus.
If one needs more views, then one should interact with more folks.
I'm not having any problems finding followers, and I'm controversial.
Animosity will go down when more influence is left in the hands of the masses.
That can easily be done by the whales voting in person and not banding into groups for purposes of self enrichment at the expense of the little guys.
I don't know enough about the curation rewards to speak on if that is a pool that the whales should leave for the masses, too.
I get that they should get their curation awards, too.
Curation rewards are, to me, like interest for holding sp, and therefore, legitimate.
I just ask that they get them for personally voting their conscience and not for creating manpower pools/bots.
Changing things so that whales only downvote is, to me, a horrible idea, but all the marbles don't belong to me.