That's certainly a big part of the debate isn't it? with over 500,000 accounts and 30k daily active users, having one person claiming 7% of the total reward pool seems obscene, regardless of the value of their content.
We'll see how it all plays out!
@mikepm Word! It's as obscene as overpaid footballers, but without the public fame. I don't know how much 7% of the reward pool is, but I bet I could live really well for a good while on 7% of one day's worth of the reward pool.
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. ;)
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.
After some big downvotes, the percentage of rewards on the one account is down to .8% over the next week. Which is good for the following per Steemworld.org: $ 4,360.68 ( ~ 21,641.06 USD )
( 0.828 % of total reward fund )
Thanks for replying Mike. Re your last comment, that is good for the reward pool so long as those who are downvoted are deserving of it. But can't the big guys put a stop to anyone they take a dislike to? I wrote a post about some of this stuff, the tallent less trenders etc, but thought it'd be a bit stupid of me to post on such things, being so new here.
I think, perhaps, if we had the solution, we'd have cracked most of the problems of the world, lol. :)
Honestly.... you are new enough that it is highly unlikely that the big guys who would flag you for voicing your opinion on the matter would notice. There are many whales who share your view, and post about it. So they are doing more infighting at a higher level to notice us peons. LOL
Bottom line, Be true to yourself, if you write a post you think is valuable to the platform, post it! don't delete something in fear of repercussions.
I don't call on favors lightly, but if someone I know gets flagged into the depths because they posted something a whale didn't like, I do have resources to call in to reverse the effect of the flag if needed. There are people here who look out for the little guy, as long as the little guy gets in touch with the right people. LOL
Let me know if you decide to post something along those lines. I follow you, but there is a lot in my feed that I don't always get to, and I would surely want to make sure I read that post!
Hey @mikepm74, sorry for the late reply, festive commitments etc. I've been thinking long and hard about this, I had a long reply typed out, but, if you don't mind, I'd like to reply in private, to seek a little advice on one aspect before I go ahead and publish my thoughts and reasoning
on my blog. I looked for you in discord and steemit chat, but I couldn't seem to find you there. Happy New Year Mike, may you continue to steem on!
hey Martin. I am mikepm74 in both chats. In Discord it would come up as DJ Mikey Masters, but stil lshould be able to find me by my regular username.
Thanks Mike @mikepm74, I'll give it another go, dunno what went wrong last time, but I couldn't find another name I was looking for, even though I know it's there somewhere. Maybe a glitch my end. I was just now working on the piece I want to write but just suffered a dreaded blue screen computer crash, and 20mins recovery with a black screen until she finally fired up again. It's first one on this machine, I was using 'notepad' which has no autosave, resulting in losing all the additions I'd added over the last hour or so, doh!
So I'm going to go back to that whilst it's still fresh in my mind and see if I can get my ideas down before getting ready to party the NY in.
I'll msg you later this eve if I have time spare after that or tmro, but again NY eve party abuses permitting. Otherwise Tuesday, before come down wednesday, lol. There's no rush but I'm hoping you'll be able to simply advise me as to whether I'm completely nutz or sane and rational. I think the latter, but it's not unheard of for me to be mistaken, lol. But it feels that what I want to say is very obvious, yet it seems, from what I can see, nobody wants to mention it outloud unless in quite a vague, non specific way. Sometimes things need spelling out and although I don't enjoy confrontation very much, there are some things that need to be confronted.
Having only been here a couple of weeks, I'm unsure as to whether it's my place to do that, or indeed if anyone will actually even see it.
I do appreciate very much the words above, and that people can get protection if in their hearts they are doing right and as a result getting bullied for it. That must be warming for many good honest people here to know. It seems typical of the 'spirit' I see here on steemit that makes me feel very positive about being a part of it, despite the unfainesses that prevail. After all there is no life or way of life that doesn't have unfairness, balance is the key of course. ;)
Hot damn! I just noticed your upvote of my comment @mikepm74. That's very much appreciated, thank you.