RE: My view on the future of Steemit and suggestions how we can improve as a community.
A well thought out post, @ferow. Although never having intentionally visited the trending feed my hope is that the 'category' sustem in the next fork will have users visiting those categories of interest to them. This situation will probably put like minded folks together. Just having fun and upvoting comments with my homies that had come over from FB at around the same time went a long way to increasing my rep. My expectations are that categories will work in a simular fashion.
There will always be those out there to play the system. Support trustworthy witnesses to help close some loopholes, like restrictions of self voting reportedly in the next fork.
Until such loopholes are closed there will be some reward rape, yet in the bar business it would be called spillage. Just because there is $2.3 Billion in illigal ATM withdrawls a month in Singapore does not mean we stop using our ATM cards. 😎
You are right, just because some people are abusing the system does not mean others have to stop using it. It also doesn't mean the platform management should allow it. I hope we can enjoy the platform even more soon!