When kings rule the land and their subjects are busy kissing their feet, both king and subject lose their night vision. Kings who've never lived inside the dragon's mouth can never truly lead the masses who are limping, feverish and bed-ridden.
Attachment based on personal gain has blinded more people than the sun. Follow the sun for it gives energy without expecting a return on its investment.
I have provided the solutions as far as invitation protocols. It is up to the community to decide which design serves their needs the best. Actually, the free market will decide best, and that will happen in the future regardless of my personal opinions.
I am a very patient person, but I do have my limits when months go by without any sort of forward action.
If we cannot speak our minds without fear of flagged whale downvotes, then the platform will implode.
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Right on. I hate to say it, but in this, @dantheman is wrong. Downvotes damage the Steemosphere, not benefit it. Shunning is far more powerful than punishment as a social regulation mechanism. I got smacked down by @berniesanders and since I - yes, little minnow me - got the Mute button to actually work, I don't even see his comments anymore, and my screen is now far more productive.
He may have taken my rep down to 10 with him and his gaggle of followers, but ironically, about 30 of them now follow me. Thank God that this behaviour can't diminish your SP. I didn't have much, but I have in the week and a half since this malicious nonsense, I have returned to above the rep score before his 'justice' was dealt, and my SP is now, on the back of only my effort to post good material, already at nearly 2000% of what it was when this brave whale 'set me straight'.
out of curiosity, what post did berniesanders downvote?
You can find it for yourself if you search the blockchain. I called him out for being petty and vindictive in a comment thread. Turned out he was the whale who had voted up what I considered to be a random, insignificant post in my blog, near the beginning. He withdrew his vote, and I was indignant, and it hurt a lot because he did this 2 hours before payout time.. If he had been any kind of decent human being, and not precisely the sad individual that he is, he would have simply ignored me. But instead he acted as petty as I had just literally stated he was behaving.
This started a futile flag campaign on my part, and he flagged me back some more. My reputation fell to 10, but of course, he coud not steal my SP, as pissingly small as it was, I think maybe 6 or so at the time.
In fact, I am very motivated by the desire to eliminate the pernicious influence of such individuals, who not only buy in big on the platform, but think that qualifies them as some kind of curation expert. This is patently wrong, because curators have to be creative people, and certainly not petty and vindictive, small minded bot-operators, using this platform to stroke their wounded little egos. This is teething problems for the platform, in fact. Steemit is labeled 'beta' for a reason - the developers realise that intricate, and compelling mathematical models, have to be tested before they can be considered effective. Either that, or backtested on historical data, which cannot be done for this platform.
I gradually recovered. I wrote another article that won a lot of votes, about my philosophical consolidation after the experience, and from there, I slowly built my reputation up, and wouldn't you know it, because of my efforts to put forward good ideas, I have now caught the attention of the developers, who have already (but subsequent to my posting the ideas) announced they are working on ways to resolve the issues you discuss in this post, and the solutions to which, I have already extensively and comprehensively resolved in my posts, indeed, I didn't just moan with my big SP to much attention the injustice of my own treatment and the behaviour of the individual I called out, that caused this to all start, I picked myself back up, knowing I was right, and continued to publish. I am even now writing code towards this end, and I have acquired the cooperation of who I consider to be the most talented individual developer who is also working towards improving this platform, independently, without begging to some higher power. @xeroc.
I perhaps should be more concerned about hurting egos, but as far as I am concerned, this is precisely contrary to achieving success when you are taking part in a social experiment. The right model has to be found, in sufficient intricacy, that there is no glaring open holes for abusive behaviour to get through the net created by the mechanics of the system.
As I observed in a recent post, I am now even getting so many little vote rewards that any campaign to stop my progress at advancing this platform, would be patently abusive and very bad for the reputations of anyone who has been 'hurt' by my comments. I am building a strong following and I am following through with my ideas and the more I learn in the process, the better my ideas get, and the more precise and effective become my actions.