Believe it or not. These are the kind of things that make me believe Steemit really is decentralized and can prove to us whether theory can be put to practice.
I must first state that I like many minnows am afraid of being hit by a whale just because of joining in on the conversation. That being said, I'm very intrigued by this. First thing is him not fully downvoting you, but just $10. Was that the same amount that the dubious bot upvoted you with? (Just wondering)
Secondly, I notice he hasn't attacked you on this post yet. So maybe he was indeed just proving a point. Also, a thing I'm always wondering. How much effort did the current whales put into actually becoming one. From my knowledge they either worked for it, got delegated out of trust or just invested a big amount of money. On one hand, it can make them superior, on the other, it didn't come free.
The great thing about it, it are different people everytime. One day Dan downvotes Haejin, the next day Berniesanders leaves the Heajin discussion temporarily to tell Joeparys he'll downvote his videocourse post. Now Blocktrades downvotes Grumpycat for his/her behavior. There is a lot going on and there is no case where someone get unanimous (100%) approval from all Steemians. I also love the fact that you state your observations and your opinion, without declaring war, posting it as education.
It's great that input comes from so many parts of the community and when someone steps in to 'police' everyone, people that don't agree stand up and state their opinion. Meanwhile Ned is somewhere sitting with popcorn watching it all unfold.
"Ned is somewhere sitting with popcorn watching it all unfold."
LOL, 100% worth the upvote.
Haha.. thanks. The best part, its based on actual recent events...
Yes, even @grumpycat is generating traffic.
Strange how much rubber necking people enjoy.
Hey, it's social media, in that sense, Steemit is not different from Facebook is that perspective. In my opinion, hedonism only validates the platforms succes.
Delegation is often paid for but also the amounts of money invested, depending on the time of investment, can vary dramatically. Someone who invests 50000 USD into steemit today will have significantly less steem power than someone who invested 1000 USD in March 2017.
Thanks for explaining @youareyourowngod. It makes a lot of sense that its gets harder to grow your Steem Power when the platform grows also. I guess I should have started earlier myself. Waited over 4 months before I made my first post.