Thank you to everyone for their efforts whatever they may be with steem(it). Seems many may have a common goal of spreading out votes and rewards. Would like to attempt to not look at good or bad of matters as many are seemingly doing but rather to ask what consequences are there and how may they be lessened.
Spreading out votes is being done manually and automatically by individual and groups of people and bots. Manual voting by individual people may be most appreciated for the human effort by humans. However some humans have made bots with their human and bot abilities with different human reactions to the resulting votes and effects. All these means are however spreading out more votes.
By voting we are all taking part in spreading out rewards. There seems too much disparity between the WHALE & minnow votes though. Smaller users have been grouping together and some bigger users have been spreading out their votes / voting power in some ways. Now recently there seems to be some experiment that may or may not be fully explained with controlled and uncontrolled variables to study some variable to come to calculated conclusions that may help understand how to improve voting and reward pool distribution.
There seems to be mixed feelings from many of these learning changes. Some thinking there are rights or not rights to do certain things. Well everyone has equal right to do as they think. May these things right or wrong? I have no right to judge such. People are obviously seeing these many different approaches and results in different lights. Wonder if we may instead look at overall consequences to those involved more as a whole to better understand.
The voting function on its basic level is a means of distributing steem in relation to influence. We all have some impact with up and down voting. We all also have the right to up or down vote anything. We may not agree. But it appears many are working towards better voting practices as we learn together. The Reward Pool is still rewarded across the whole community as a result of everyone's content and votes. So let's all vote and produce content as we see fit.
Great to see people voicing their thoughts and listening to thoughts of others. Not so much with calling things right or wrong. Think most agree that the current curve using n^2 is too much and really hope to see this changed soon. This has allowed for too much power. Whales have absolute power and power absolutely corrupts. However many whales have been changing habits and improving the overall results in some ways.
Will think more on an idea I would like to mention that may help smaller STEEM power holders have a more recognizable influence. Of which I feel is important to growth and retention. While I understand a smaller influence. But an influence of seemingly ZERO (0) is very discerning and discouraging.
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