Heh. Nah, I praised you on the idea when I first saw @randowhale. I even used it a couple of times. Yet sadly people are not using it primarily to spread things around, but more to vote on themselves. Though I do believe you lowered your potential payout enough that the fee to get one of the votes is pretty close to what you'd end up getting from the vote +/- a small amount.
Which so be it. I'm not really butt hurt about it. I just see a lot of people posting about consolidation of power on steemit. I know you've seen them too. You happen to be one of those that is really good at the shell game as you flit among your many accounts. @randowhale was actually a pretty good idea of yours.
Now it mostly seems to be being used by people to up vote themselves (with a few exceptions) which ultimately doesn't seem like it would be particularly advantageous to them, but they keep doing it.
It's potential to give a BOOST to other people's posts though is very cool. That is what I used it for awhile back.
I stopped using it when I realized it would likely be more cost effective to just send the person the $2 SBD (I think you recently lowered the price) as a transfer.
This post was not specifically targeted at you by the way. There are several people doing this though I do think you were the first.
Though back when your power was invested in this Berniesanders account you did express your right to subjectively vote however you liked. Thus during the old power consolidation talks you were often one of the targets people were speaking about, but you were not alone.
So if people are spending for a vote and funneling SBD to you in the process at a pretty good clip that seems like a pretty good way to further consolidate power. From your perspective that is pretty brilliant. You have a pretty sharp business mind.
If people are concerned about consolidation of power I don't think they realize that they are continuing to do it every time they send you SBD. :) That was why I posted.
Though I did try to think of something positive to say. Thus, why I ended it talking about a TIP button.
Yet my post was not about being butthurt, it was inspired just by reading what other people post about.