The new changes are geared towards more vote power management in your hands, as well as aiming to force greater quality content creation on Steemit and improving the value and reputation of the Steemit platform and community.
How so? This is how.
Prior to the recent changes announced earlier this evening, if you weren't a high powered SP holder, you had no "Vote Bar":
All of your votes were at a default of 100%, and you had 20-24 votes per 24-hours before your Vote Power was getting reduced beyond the daily 20% recharge full-power refill. This made people vote indiscriminately in terms of how much weight they could distribute for the content they valued and voted for. Everything received the same vote weight without the Vote Bar.
Now, you can distribute the weight of your Vote Power according to what you value a post or comment should have:
- 5 votes at 100%
- 10 votes at 50%
- 20 votes at 25%
- 25 votes at 20%
- 50 votes at 10%
- 100 votes at 5%
So yes, your default 100% voting power is now at 5, instead of 20 votes per day at full charge. But you have more control over it. That is point #1 of why this vote change is GOOD for Steemit and you. The quality can be more accurately judged and given more weight accordingly, rather than indiscriminately voting at the same Vote Power weight each time.
Point #2 for why these changes are good, is the 5-vote default instead of 20 default.
This will force people to be more careful in what they vote for; to pay more attention; to spend their Vote Power more responsibility.
What does this result in?
This results in more QUALITY CONTENT receiving more Vote Power weight. This gives more visibility and exposure to content that is more highly valued.
And that's just for the Voter curation side of things.
Point #3 for why this is GOOD for Steemit, is that this is going to force people who create content, to up their game, and create BETTER QUALITY CONTENT if they hope to attract for Vote Power weight from people who read their content. This again, gives more visibility and exposure to content that is more highly valued, your content! That is, if you create valued quality content for people to upvote accordingly
If you want more upvotes that matter more, that have more weight to provide you with a payout, you are going to have to ensure the quality of your content creation is high and attracts more value for people to appreciate. If you still post low quality content, then less people are going to vote for you, and less people are going to give their Vote Power a 100% for your low quality content.
This will means Steemit will become a platform of higher quality content, since people who don't increase the quality of their content will receive less attention and either 1) force themselves to find meaningful, valuable topics to create content about, or 2) leave the content creation up to those that do create more meaningful and valuable content. This is GOOD for Steemit's reputation in the eyes of everyone who is already here, and those who want to invest in Steemit as a source of QUALITY content creation.
In Summary, these changes are GOOD for Steemit and everyone because:
- You have more Vote Power weight distribution control.
- You have more power and responsibility to curate quality content as a result and get it noticed more accurately through higher visibility and exposure in the community.
- You, as a content creator, will need to create higher quality content, or leave it up to others, and thereby increase the value and reputation of the overall Steemit platform and community.
Thank you for reading!
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Author: Kris Nelson / @krnel
Contact: steemit.quality@gmail.com
Date: 2016-09-02