OMG! My vote just gave you $0.20! Isn't this awesome?

/s

I do see less original content and more quantity over quality now that a few people decided to abuse the flag system with bots. We just need to have bot posters then no one will ever have to actually deal with content.  I even saw one post that was all copy and paste with a link to the original content from a major news source,lol  You cant control an entire social media network with bots as they are doing. You need people to actually look at content otherwise the value is lost.  I love the pineapple protest, its much much better than quitting and you get paid to protest! win/win

I think fewer people will vote for you if your post really drop off. Nice point here but I disagree

@bbkshadow  hmmm..
>with great (voting) power comes great responsibility 
 
Optimus Prime - and [abit]()

https://youtu.be/Ct6BUPvE2sM

Agree!!!! :)

https://media.giphy.com/media/EWFCvdlourSi4/giphy.gif

Pineapple!!!!:)
https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/s960x960/12764853_906070762843636_5021658966489008057_o.jpg?oh=7cae40bdb6812d49a2bf6a826ea63c69&oe=592BD05F

Huh, no:) Not my style:) I prefer having blue hair:)

Resteemed :-)

It will take some time for nonsense to loose that front non-

Your [reward](https://steemit.com/steem/@tibonova/introducing-pipes) for being in `Promoted` is an upvote and 0.002 SBD extra promotion. 
Good job, keep your contents promoted! :)

I am conflicted! I shouldn't upvote pineapples, because that's your message! But I should upvote your message, because... it makes sense!

*Stop confusing me!*

Upvoted, resteemed and will promote with some money :D
Agreed 1000℅

The perfect reaction to a pineapple post is to downvote it.  So I did.

Not only does a minnow upvote mean something now, so does a minnow downvote.  Power has been invested in the wisdom of the crowd.

You are apparently expecting that rewards have to correlate with the efforts that you have dedicated to a post. Just post what you care about. I believe that a travel post like the one referenced above would now score much better BECAUSE of the experiment. I think you are missing out the benefits of the ongoing experiment by sticking to your pinneapple theme.

The value of content is not only defined by its monetary outcome. It´s a side effect. 

Since you are an established content creator here on steemit with an admirable reputation (congrats to that btw), you have some bots - or at least blind voters - following you: 100 votes / 13 views for this post so far. Others would surely be pleased to have them. 

Thanks to the current (new) distribution of rewards, minnow and dolphin votes do have more impact. Yes the implementation of the experiment wasn´t well done and steemit doesn´t look good (especially from the outside) being full of flagged posts. However steem price is considerably increasing, which means that the experiment doesn´t have a negative influence on the performance - or at least that it´s not *negative enough* to equalize other positive effects.

Regardless of the *image problem* - and I think this is unquestionable - their final goal is achieved and the power has been distributed more fairly amoung the participants. Muting whale votes by flags can´t be a long term solution - I bet even @smooth and @abit would agree on that. However, it was a brilliant way to open our eyes. Delegation of power is one of the key ideas of the ideology of decentralization. It´s the first time this is effectively happening on steemit. So yes, I don´t like flagging either. But the result is worth being considered.

Now, if you deduce from this situation, that you should lower the quality of your content, then of course you can do that. The question is: do you really feel comfortable doing it? Is that fulfilling? 

Sorry for the long text. I´ll have a Piña Colada now :)
**Steem on!**