true, we need to focus on the actual problems, like authors not-upvoting comments made on their own posts ... that's no good!
it should be a habit; as long it's not spam or insulting or whatever; the author should upvote as many comments as possible ...
My feeling is this is a very simple way to help Steem distribution. However, it's obviously author choice at the moment. I hope we can all just agree to remove the ability for authors to upvote their own material. Of course it's possible that authors who upvote their own posts will damage their own reputation to the point where they get less upvotes, therefore behaviour will change on it's own. The issue is we need more whales and dolphins......which is gradually happening but perhaps not as fast as many would have hoped.
Thats the problem with trickle down economics
Yes we do. We really do. How on earth do we achieve that faster whilst ensuring that people who care and add some kind of value get the Steem?
@luminousvisions i think these are really good ideas. There is enough information to identify a whole bunch of deserving accounts. You could make an announcement and a period to allow people to attempt to increase their chance of being included, then initiate a plan to drop on them. The trouble is there would be a huge incentive to create rubbish and it would be very difficult to monitor. You might encourage people with growing positive reputations to undermine themselves. Maybe identifying them then all whales and dolphins could drop a percentage of their SP on them? The issue with that is the people who just miss out. Every way you turn there is a technical or fairness issue. Like you said, we may just have to wait patiently for the platform to mature and deliver the benefits that wider distribution of steem will bring.