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RE: WHALE SELF-VOTING: IS IT A SCAM!?
Scam isn't the right word. Scams are for whales colluding to circle jerk vote each other so they don't get a little jizz on their face for being greedy and I guess feel better about it. You know my stance, it's destructive to the platform and worse, it makes the smaller vested accounts follow suit in hopes to either get a vote in return or make money curating. Neither of those things happens to any reliable extent, but that's even more of the reward pool drained chasing money instead of promoting content. I try not to focus on the money any more than I have to and it's also why I don't call out names even though I easily could. People have to change themselves.
@clayboyn Truth and what's a little jizz between friends right?
I do know your position and when I looked at the effects of their example you're right, that was definitely part of the motivation for forming our own little guild-like support group.
So you're on point in that unless hyper managed these efforts seem unreliable and perhaps even ineffective in comparison to those heavy with SP. I'm not going so far as to say our smaller vested curation guilds are destructive. However I wholly agree the whale bukakke does not look good to mass population and specially any potential new users.
That's a massive cock block to all of us for mass adoption and the rise of STEEM in my opinion. Moving forward, "trying" not to focus on the money is noble and ideal if only we could all do that. In reality it's right here in our face and even more so when we clearly see others gaming it.
I respect your choice not to call them out, my stance in helping them "change themselves" is to share their actions with the whole. If you greedy own that shit and if you're strictly financially minded I can respect that. Do you boo, however if you think you can camp around being stealthy on the blockchain, then you really are delusional.
Let all the minnows know, let the dolphins sing it and then we can all choose who we support, promote. Then we can leave those who don't contribute value to OUR platform to play soggy biscuit with themselves.
Wholeness.