It seems to me that the sleeping whales' auto vote is only a small part of the drain on the reward pool. Is it not clear, when we see regular top daily or multiple daily trenders with very poor formulaic content? So poor I wonder if it could perhaps even be produced by a bot?
Can a truly decentralised platform ever be a truly decentalised platform, a fair place for all, a level playing field? Sadly, I don't think so.
Power and greed rear their ugly heads everywhere when money is key, and corruption, in the world we now live in, is "where there's a will there's a way".
It seems quite clear who some of the offenders are that are creaming a fat month's pay every day are, and although it's clearly obscene, they still live within the rules, and can simply stick a finger up to anyone who's brave/stupid enough to call them out. To wage a campaign against these fat cats lapping up the cream would be suicidle though.
It's clear though that you can survive here though, and do quite well for yourself if you work hard at it, have the value, and to some extent have some luck, but like any other society it can ever be a very fair place.
There is a wealth of good and tallented content on steemit that is seen by very few eyes, and although there is some really good stuff trending, there are so many crappy tallentless 'content' providers circling like vultures at the top, which makes steemit seem unreal and a joke to many onlookers/new steemians, with just as sickening human behaviour that we see in the corporate centralised world.
That's life for you though.
I've spent all my life observing human behaviour, albeit mainly through a lens as a street/social documentary photographer, I see steemit as a very interesting social experiment. ;)
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Excellent comment. And yes, the sleeping whale auto-vote is only a small part of the problem. But it was a point that really had not been talked about which is why I wanted to highlight it.
Yes, I think sometimes one of the best things to do is to just ignore what's going on at the higher levels and just worry about what I can control. But just allowing abuses to continue without comment doesn't seem right either.
I don't know what the solution is. I wish I did.