whales are giving up a lot of power by cashing out ( most currently do). By crashing the price of steem they will allow people to gain whale statut with very little money.
What I am more concerned about is people voting for themselves like bernie just did, this is a critical flaw imo.
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Very true. And this reaffirms my suspicion that whales are frequently curating only based on potential reward payouts and not necessarily on the quality of the content, which is a major problem for long-term viability of the social platform.
Its not only him, but his sockpuppets, too, to swell the numbers.
Precisely. So at least he's being honest about voting for a comment here as opposed to voting for unknown sock puppets.
That's part of the protocol, to be able to vote for yourself.
Good / bad?
If it's removed, you'll just see random sock puppets and no way of verifying if they are his or not. At least with him voting his own comment, you know it's him.