I should point out that some of the most successful authors have similar ideas. I've been contacted on steemit.chat a few tines by authors asking me to remove my vote, because they felt they were trending too high and would rather make a modest amount and leave more for others (in one case the author in question had two posts high in trending at the same time).
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It's good to know that it's happening from both side. It's easy to look at someone's success and label them greedy. When in fact, in many circumstances they are far from that...
I think people put too much focus on "Steem Dollar Payout" and it's in my opinion flawed, and in a way unethical. It's unethical because it defeats the idea that this platform is about competing for Steem Power and if a person can't for example determine that 100% of their reward go to Steem Power then they are forced to accept less Steem Power because other people might perceive they are getting too much potential USD?
Why is the focus so much on USD by the whales who should know better? I realize bloggers need to get paid in USD in order to pay their own cost of living but in the end what matters is who holds the Steem Power because in the future these will be the new whales and patrons of future generations.
If more people would prefer reputation ans number of upvotes, the the cash payout, it would be better for the platform long term, in my opinion. Once you have a stable audience, and better yet write posts that create i teresting discussion (something I am yet to acheive, but see that is something doable) the impact of the whale votes for them would lessen.
Of course a lot of people would prefer those $300-$3000 payouts, but the way I see it it is more of a good platform to find your audience. And it already brings more value than having a personal site for quite a bit of people.