well.. if you're using 2% on a single vote your vote strength drains a lot faster, so you would need to curate better to compensate for that assuming voting strength wasn't cut down to 25% to go back to the other way, but then people using their max vote on actual good content are going to get ahead on curation compared to you. being a good curator also has the potential of creating a curation trail when bots or other users pick up on your stats for good curation, so that  helps too

This is alot to think about as a new user. I have been trying to only put out decent to good original content. As I have been browsing I have noticed the something like what you are pointing out. It makes it so you cant grow and only the people with stocked assets can achieve proper numbers on their post because they already have the exposure and boost.  It will eventually push all but the top tier user out.  Or people willing to buy in off the bat for a boost.. Should I?

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Thanks for sharing. I didn't realise that it was currently so skewed towards people holding a lot of power. There's still time for fixes to be made though... I hope they find a way.

After reading your bog @calamus056, and went through the comments of some clarifications and point of views of what's happening here at Steemit, I'm glad that you care to towards our efforts(minnows) and how the rewards has been distributed. You have a great and compassionate heart. Thank you!
I will look forward on Tuesday, June 20, 2017 when the HF19 will come to its effect!

good analysis

thank you for good posting

I have no problem with more power being given to people who invest in the platform (i.e. via Steem Power). They deserve it in a way for allocating their resources to the platform.  

The crux of the issue for me is that curators and content creators also invest resources in the platform and they often get a very slow start. An introduceyourself post may get a bit payout or if they know some whales they might get big votes for posts, but this is not always the case and curation rewards are very low.  How can this situation be improved? or is it something that will become less of an issue with scale on the platform?

All your points are very valid. I would say 100% valid :)

I agree with you on almost all conclusions. Except for:
> right now on SteemIt we experience exactly the same problem with the power of the rich as the old system we're so desperately trying to leave

I am not sure that those with a lot of Steem Power are really *trying to leave* the old system. I think that they are trying to hold to this power and use it. Yes, they invested in it, somehow. They won't just give it away...

The two major pitfalls of the platform remain untouched:
1. massively skewed power distribution
1. invisibility of posts from majority of authors

No, I don't have solutions to those two. Linear rewards might be a very small step towards fixing the first issue without actually hurting the major power holders.

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Nice thoughts. I am not that familiar with Steemit that I'd have an opinion about this, but this is still a lot to think about.

This is a good one! I like it. Its always good to be skeptical & point out the  downsides

I think you have good points. Definitely things that need to be on the table and talked about.
It’s all working progress. It’s at its infancy. Or like a great painting which is only being sketched out right now. Peace.

Some good points here, especially in relation to curation history/reputation.  However, it sounds like you're complaining b/c the "rich" have more "power".  This is just the reality of the world in which we live and no blockchain, technology, or socialist ideological hope is going to ever change that.

The world, the universe, is build on the principle of give and take, equilibriums just do not exist.  

To put this in perspective; If everyone's vote was the same, where would the demand to purchase more STEEM come?  Altruism?  I think you're leaving out one of the most important and genius aspects of STEEM, the economics.

I agree, I've only been here less than 48 hours, and it seems like there is definitely a pay to play aspect to Steemit, but at the same time, I feel like there is a pretty good opportunity for people who don't invest but rather focus on the actual curation of content. But I also recognize the power distribution is a struggle between users. 

The other interesting thing about this article is the argument you bring up about people curating content due to the **fear** that people have about increasing and maintaining their reputation.

Quality insight. Not many think critically towards steem as you do.

What we know from this System is that ultimately Steemit going to promoting its users to buy Steem power for its uses. This is very intelligent business and its have very good effect also because it's wipe out unwanted people from Steemit community and make Steemit a reliable Stable platform for creativity and Intelligence based content writing platform rather than Facebook and other social platform.

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I think to solve the quality problem we would just need like a five star ranking system for the content the author created. You still would be able to vote whenever you like to do, maybe even before reading the article. But you also have the option to give the article a quality voting and then after 7 days this quality voting goes into the account of howmuch earnings the author and the curators are given.

Good job, Very interesting.

Youtube ran into this problem recently, did it not? It had a bunch of questionable content from terrible creators that they had to choke out by removing ads.

what do you think the time frame is to resolve these issues?

The heart of steemit is SP. It is an influence token... It should be rewarded to have and hold it, otherwise the price of Steem will plummet.

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yer i would agree with that, it will take me a long time to get to a reputation of 70. god knows how some people on here have done it

This problem:  "Users that curate properly also aren't sufficiently compensated, so there is absolutely no incentive to curate accurately!" is at the core of the issue.

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Followed! I couldn't agree more but what can be done?!

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Still doing more reading up on this. Starting to figure out a few more things. Thanks for helping out and posting great articles. Hopefully i'll be up to speed soon.