Well they are being rewarded for being early adopters. I agree that the voting power is completely skewed but that is just the nature of the beast. As time goes on new users are going to have to try increasingly harder to get their posts noticed and to get rewards. Time is money and the flood of posts makes it nearly impossible to sort through the muck.
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It's not skewed. This is how life always have worked. It's easy to stand out. Create amazing content and people will pay attention. Aim higher. Aim to give 100X more in value.
good call, but i still need to see more whales upvoting their followers comments, I have done a lot of looking lately, and many of the whales, have a self upvoting of 30% or more. On the same token, if they put that out to the people then it should come back to them in volume and allows for much better growth.
Stop looking at what other people are doing and focus on creating amazing content instead. Stop the comparison game. It's a waste of time and just distraction.
I agree with you for the most part. But without good suggestions, the site would not progress well, Yes good content is job one. But lets not forget this site is for both content makers and viewers. Keeping the other half interested is just as important. I would never do anything dicky, like flag people. I just want to see the platform grow. As i look at the numbers, steemit is near facebook like numbers in the first few years, I really want to see that happen. I think if small items are fixed, it could hit 5 million by the end of year, and to me, thats the breakout point. Self upvoting when your big, is not better for growth. The real potential is in volume, so more people (little guys) doing well comes back on the whales anyway. Looking at introduceyourself postings, i see so many well done posts, that get less then .02 and i dont think that makes people get the right impression off the bat.
Personally, the only reason i want steem, is to upvote my followers. when i do get them :) i would love for my customers, readers.....etc etc.....to get .25 Steem everytime they comment or reply. Thats perfect for me, it may be a small goal, but i think it's perfect and honest.
I also made a pledge, that once my delegated steem is gone, i will not be upvoting myself anymore. https://steemit.com/steem/@oopgamesandhobby/the-steem-power-pledge and not a single person even read it i think, LOL