With respect, I think the proposal to redistribute some of @steemit's SP to the 1000 most active users, if implemented, would only serve to move the problem a little farther down the road. It would be another band-aid...
It seems to me that in order for people, for minnows, to feel like they are useful and appreciated by the community, they should begin their journey here on Steemit, with at least a voting strength of $0.01. This would inspire greater readership, content production, and allow new users to immediately see that they are integral to this community.
It would also lessen the dependance on whale voting, because, many people will be happy with 1,5, or 10$ for a decent post...
I don't mean to sound contrary, it's just that I believe the problem is in the algorithm, and not with who specifically has the SP...
To the devs, a sincere thanks for listening to the users...
The only reasonable and best proposal of all. Simple and very effective if you ask me. But who will listen to me . I have no posts for now, but I read and upvote like crazy. Even with my SP with low steem price I have a feeling I'm just wasting my time here. I'm wasting money from long ago anyway.
I am also in favor of that and had thought it would help tremendously too
I think you make a very valid point.
The whales are probably taking the brunt of the dissatisfaction because they are out in the open, where the algorithm is just some back end code.
The whole sock puppet accusations or whatever you want to call them don't help alleviate blame either.