Once again I've gotten caught up spending ages reading your post and all the comments! I like all the debate you spark off. It rarely seems to get nasty though and you aren't being flagged by bot owners, so I'm guessing it's not really that that's reducing your rewards. I've noticed a lot of people are getting way less rewards of late. Your average upvotes haven't really changed either. In fact your posts about the bidbot issues seem to get more upvotes if anything. Perhaps the reward pool is really declining and it's probably for multiple reasons.
Steemit really is an interesting social experiment and a reflection of reality in so many ways. I often wonder if Ned refuses to intervene purely to watch how this experiment pans out. Could we ever be truly self governing?
I think there is a swell starting. I hope. And yes, there are multiple reasons. I think the main is that the bidbots are using previously inactive SP to lock up the pool. Lots more users coming in but, they are on the public side of the fence unless they use the bots. the draw is massive. abh12345 said it is the equivalent of 5 million in vests voting every 5 minutes or something like that. That is enormous.
Give me the dictatorship and I will force people to self-govern. ;)
Yeah, I think we could at least to some degree but I also think that it would look much like an ad hoc goverment anyway. It would still be better than the crap the real world offers.
It is and I can't help thinking it's much more massive than the drain from the pool than the handful of "reward pool rapists" being targeted at the moment. A drive being pushed by one of the bot owners no less. Distraction techniques maybe?