The thing is that steemit will never hit it's true stride and potential unless this is addressed, lackadaisical or crony upvoting will be the demise here, there is a majority of great content that gets what it deserves but if casual users, people just looking for good content have to wade through what amounts to lame facebook posts from people you don't know or care about then that is extremely damaging to the long term prospects here. Again I'm not talking about trolling or randomly downvoting things you don't like, but the downvote is there for a reason and I believe addressing abusive upvoting is a legitimate, albeit distasteful one.
I think it will. The power needs to spread around. It is currently consolidated into the very early adopters, and developers. As they vote on stuff it will up lift others, and as they vote it will further up lift more.
It is in beta and you are early adopter so this stuff has to happen. The only way I see it not eventually working out is for big winners to not vote. If they get the power to uplift people and don't use it, then that becomes a problem.
The thing is that steemit will never hit it's true stride and potential unless this is addressed, lackadaisical or crony upvoting will be the demise here, there is a majority of great content that gets what it deserves but if casual users, people just looking for good content have to wade through what amounts to lame facebook posts from people you don't know or care about then that is extremely damaging to the long term prospects here. Again I'm not talking about trolling or randomly downvoting things you don't like, but the downvote is there for a reason and I believe addressing abusive upvoting is a legitimate, albeit distasteful one.
Thanks for the reply @thecryptofiend
I think it will. The power needs to spread around. It is currently consolidated into the very early adopters, and developers. As they vote on stuff it will up lift others, and as they vote it will further up lift more.
It is in beta and you are early adopter so this stuff has to happen. The only way I see it not eventually working out is for big winners to not vote. If they get the power to uplift people and don't use it, then that becomes a problem.