RE: Pointing at other wrongdoing doesn't justify you doing wrong.
I'm glad to see you freely expressing the somewhat sad, truth regarding the direction steemit has headed with 'allowing' reward pool rape. Though I am usually opposed to 'too' much 'rule' by a handful of individuals, by having steemit founders and their appointees ignore abuse of their creation, it raises many questions...
Freeborn; you raise some very good points particularly in regard to potential 'new' investors considering a monetary stake in steem...then choosing not to invest for reasons you point out. New users to this platform, though not fully understanding the who, what, and hows, quickly begin to recognize steemit's 'ugly' side...(uncontrolled greed, seekers of simple wealth building having their way with the 'underlings'...) Sounds too much like 'mob' rule, rather than ruled by the masses...
Being new here, I did not expect to reach a multitude of 'real' followers quickly; but I did sort of expect less bot raping, spam, scams and cons of every description...There appears to be a lot less protective measures being employed in defense of the 'lambs' so to speak. The wolf pack seems to be having their way...
Nuff said...my 'rant' has ended for the day. Regards @angryman (solutions will come through users like you; hopefully)
I have been beating this drum since a couple weeks after I got here in '16.
Since then, all the moves by stinc, et al, have to been to enhance the experience for the large investors.
That is fine, if all they want is a billionaires boys club, but if they truly want to change the world, they can't do that by doing what is done in the broader world, favoring large investors.
Beating this drum must be helping, some, at least, the hardfucks have stopped coming so quickly.
When they made delegation a thing curation awards all got sucked to the top.
Before that the large investors had to loan out their keys to allow use of their sp, after, the large sucking sound of minnow value going to the top was deafening.
It would be even worse if the 75% of the sp that doesn't vote did vote, so at lease we have that,...
Glad to see you back, Angryman!
Thank you. Regards @angryman