There was some recent drama and controversy over an account still post-EIP self-voting a lot and on top of that it was mainly automated posts. While I do appreciate many who look out for these and remind them of how one should use their voting power. (it being about giving and receiving more than just giving to yourself/farming - I realize this might trigger a lot of people who are all like "your SP, you do what you want with it" but I hope they're starting to realize that yes, while it is your SP, it is not your reward pool so the only thing you're entitled to with your SP is curation and inflation of vests, the other can be taken away if the community/wisdom of the crowd does not agree with it). So while there are many doing a lot of the dirtywork, many of these people reside in the SteemFlagReward server for instance attempting to improve Steem daily, there are many who are probably not aware of all these things happening and what's worse is they may not have the tool to find out even when stumbling upon these accounts.
There was one account for instance who had somehow flown under the radar for so long, left alone in his dark corner with most of the followers going inactive after the bear market that he was just farming rewards with his stake on automated posts daily without anyone noticing, or some noticing but not realizing what was happening. Many may not be aware of websites such as steemreports.com that shows voting or steemworld.org.
So it got me thinking, what if a front-end like steempeak.com were to make the voting pattern of an account something that's shown by default on their profile page.
If this was easily visible on one of our most popular front-ends, quickly letting anyone check how that account votes whenever they stumble upon it and at the same time that account knowing how easy it is for others to check I think it might mitigate a lot of abuse/misuse of stake so much so that they would change their ways or never attempt to start.
I'm not suggesting this to start dramas and witchhunts, this is a social platform after all and it's normal some accounts vote more on others and may vote-trade a bit more with those accounts. What annoyed me mostly was pre-EIP when the vote-trading occurred automatically with autovotes and same sized accounts that had nothing in common with eachother. This post is not going to be about that though, about how much is too much of self-votes or voting on the same authors, etc, as I believe that is something that depends on each case, content, relevancy, frequency, for how long they been doing it and many other factors.
This is mainly about the psychology of having those stats visible right in front of everyone's eyes and how that would affect the future outcome. We're used to much being public here on Steem such as wallets and transactions so what would be wrong with this being easily accessible as well?
What do you think?
