People also upvote for no good reason. This post has >200 upvotes after an hour. How many do you think read it? Both up- and downvotes are only useful data points when connected with others like reading

Yeah, while it would be nice to be able to tie the reward mechanism to views, this could really be gamed way too easy. Counting views on a frontend can be secured better, and while it doesn't help the

Why is this in the HiveDevs community?

It surely is out there a lot. My explanation is just from another perspective. How the witnesses get their rewards is explained in many places, people just tend to focus on the current top20 more when

Great explanation for your reasons! One thing I would like to emphasize, as I see you're voting heavily for the top 20: Anyone in this group receives the same share of blocks, no matter which position

Agreed! Unvoted the witness. Wtf.

Downvoted to give the comment of @jacobtothe more visibility than your annoying wall of text full of half-truths. I don't look at your posts, I don't reply your comments, I don't even think about you until

Every user who curates manually instead of delegating his votes to a pool or autovoting is a huge win for the platform. Please keep doing so, curangel is only for the lazy.

That was not today.

I still want to dump the steem, don't care about the price

Wow, you're a fucking clown.

Nope

Okay, sure. You send first, or do you prefer someone to escrow?

Thanks for the notice about the broken link!

Just had that thought too, price was on the rise. Thanks for confirming!

Wow, good find. I've been wondering all the time why that's so low, couldn't make sense of it. Seems like a bad idea imho, is there a reason why that value is used?@blocktrades or @gtg maybe?

Good idea ;)