I think many people do, but like it or not greed is a major motivating factor as well. Without curation rewards, we'd probably see a noticeable drop off in voting, and all the bots / auto voting services would pretty much shutdown overnight. Although, since the size of the content creation reward pool would not diminish, the net effect might be to make votes worth more. Each one that you get would be precious.
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Yeah, that's sometimes true, but I consider my reputation to be rather high, while my SP is very low, despite writing for awhile, and never powering down.
I'll never be able to actually invest my own money into Steemit, because I work for Steemit publishing my content here exclusively. So they already get half my money.
Yet, I'm extremely displeased with my inability to have a useful vote.
I know the whole "your vote isn't worthless, it starts a trail" thing is noble, but there is a clear difference between a whale/tuna, and a minnow, and it's pretty annoying that I only get half the features that Steem offers, and will never be able to afford anything greater, just because the actual amount of money I'd need to invest to get true voting power is ridiculously high.
Any solution?
Unfortunately I don't think there are any easy answers. It's tempting to say "well just make everyone's vote equal", but that introduces its own set of problems (big investors feel cheated + no incentive to actually hold a lot of SP). If only the disparity between the larger & smaller accounts wasn't so vast... the tough question is how can that be solved in a fair way that doesn't give anyone a raw deal.
Yeah, I would like the bot voting to stop. As a writer, I don't think I care one bit if some bot votes for me, not in a system where a REAL user's vote is worth more.
Why not have votes give money based on both reputation AND Steem Power?
Just give it a little math formula, like "Voting power = SP * 1.(reputation)" or something. That'd be like 1.62 for me. That'd allow people who are big fans of the community to have a powerful vote, as well as people with money and a lot reputation.
That means there will not be two whales: Reliable content creators, AND people who invest money into the platform.
Not only that, but block money for self-votes. This seems obvious even without any other modification.
Yeah, don't take my math formula too seriously, an actual formula that'd work in practice would probably be different.
I definitely support this. I've always thought self voting is kind of weird, and don't do it myself.
An interesting idea, but I wonder if this would just make things even more lopsided. My feeling is that people with high SP are generally also the ones with high reputation, so adding a reputation multiplier might just give even more voting power to elite users at the expense of the hoards of average minnows. Granted, those with high reputation have worked hard to get where they are, so perhaps they deserve a bit of an edge. The difficulty is in balancing it so the disparity is not so great as to make too many people feel that their votes don't matter.