do you understand how paragraphs work? one topic?
Each time you make a decision to choose to donate to one charity of another or any charity at all, you are picking a candidate for your action. I used the word vote in context to the bigger picture to tie things together and as far as Steem goes, why would I use the term deduction?
Tell me, is automating a function of Curation not by default invalidate the premise of the function? Tell me, is it healthy to the rest of the users to use your VP simply because it's given and it reloads? Is it OK to share your parking space on a automated schedule, or your mobile bandwidth, or your AC condensate?
As for this, normally you make some sense but this doesn't, at least to me. Which function of curation are you talking about and which premise?
Nope, you have missed the point and completely ignored the section about patrons. My parents owned a gallery when I was a kid in a small town, they sponsored a few local artists so they had some space to create without having to worry about working for food and a roof. They didn't check every piece of art, they didn't peek over their shoulder to make sure they were doing 'right', they gave them space.
It is a position based on trust that gets reviewed from time to time. This is what patrons do. In so doing, the work of the artists were able to develop and get a much, much wider consuming audience than would likely have been possible without the support.
You want good content, support good content creators by giving them the space to do what they do. I find some people, I vote on some people. In my year and a half here I have cast over 38,000 votes, manually.
What are you talking about no self-sacrifice? I am yet to use a steem of what I have earned here regardless of my real world position and have distributed a hell of a lot more than many other other people who have earned more in much easier ways then myself. It is fine for those without SP to be on a high horse but when it comes to distribution, it is the people with SP who are doing it.
voting isn't a social act, it is a transaction.
Ah, you mean leave the pool completely to the bidbots? Interesting method for helping content producers there.
yeah this is going nowhere however,
@smooth's and @abit' s whale experiment was run before bidbots entered into the marketplace. It was before HF19 and was used to cancel out whale votes over a certain threshold. I know this because they both flagged my largest ever post at the time (something like 20 dollars) which had received a vote from @thejohalfiles. I didn't know about the experiment until this point but once I worked out what was going on, I left a message of support for them.
When it comes to curation reward, since there are much higher value ways to earn, there is an opportunity cost in not using them but the cost to community is an even narrower distribution. As far as charity is concerned, at least in most countries there is a tax rebate available on the donation, I guess you could equate that to curation return too?
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.
And btw, I don't automate my own vote, I have cast 38,000 manually and distributed something of financial value to many, many people over the last year and a half because, I have a long-term view of the platform and I act according to that view. You might have other ideas but, attempting to make ideas a reality takes more than words.
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.