How about 1 person, 1 vote, no self-voting, and steam power acting as a multiplier of votes received?   To me, content that gets 100 votes, is much better than the typical crypto-currently article that has 3 votes and shows earnings of > $100.

The system is fundamentally broken, but it does mimick Washington perfectly.  Money buys and influences while the general public is ignored .

If the whales have proven to be abusive and self-destructive to the value of the platform, then why give them even more power. I think that's all that needs to be said about this idea.

I feel like the whales only wanted to enjoy nice ROI with their money and now they are charged to police/protect the system. I don't expect them to be that pro-active and as such think we are wrong to wait for them to act. So maybe we can switch to some model where the witnesses, who by default monitor much more what is happening to be the gatekeepers.

If hate to see this place get abused for personal gain. I can see why going back  may prevent whales fighting each other and using all their weight. Is going back the best method or is there another one to explore.  Let people buy upvotes is the worst thing. Most new posters do not realize they should not up vote their posts.

I know in some years time all countries flags will be the flag of steemit.. Thank God for steemit

Its a very good post and something that needs to be talked about and an acceptable solution found well done for pointing it out.

Why not just a way to flag spam posts with a valid explainable reason that is sent to Steamcleaners then they can deal with it.  Giving whales even more power is not the way to go.  It seems like a fair system, but I am sure not all whales really give a rats arse about all us minows struggling to get by.  There are some whales who probably love the power they can inflict on others with a massive downvote its just human nature, a bit of instant selfgratification is much more attractive than thinking about the long term benefits of having a great community and stronger platform.

> Maybe an n^2 flag weight curve is not even the best solution

Something that comes immediately to mind is that this can also be abused. Maybe an n^2 flag weight curve abuse could be mitigated by an SP^2 cost in doing so. I don't think it's a good solution, but something along the lines that prevents abuse.

>a system could be suggested that factors in the total number of votes, pageviews, etc. 

I think this is probably the way to go. There's probably some allocation of upvoting and flagging based on SP that balances the power between smaller users and larger ones.

Back in school we always asked why we need to learn about functions an analysis. This is an great example why.

## The problem
On one hand minnows *feel discouraged* to use the platform if there votes are **seemingly worthless**.

On the other hand **trustworthy** whales can use their vote power to protect the platform against **bad whales** without sacrificing all of their own potential rewards. (See hajin and bernisanders, markymark etc.)

## Solution
To find a solution I depend on the following statement being true. 
> Bigger whales are more interested in an healthy Steem platform. 

It follows that **for every bad whale there is an bigger good whale**.

So what we want is that the voting worth rises with n^2 for big  n and with n for smaller n.

This would separate even more between minnows and whales in terms of voting power, but it would solve the problems named above.

## A Graph
  ![image](https://img.esteem.ws/ouftreblnx.jpg)

The critical point should be a number after which the user is believed to be long-term invested in the Steem platform. My proposal would be 20 SP.

you are right. so much flag wars ongoing and reward pools. For me, those who earn a lot should restrict their posting to once daily. some folks are so greedy to post almost 10x daily racking in thousands with useless posts! that is not fair when it can be compressed into a post. I hope the next hardfork addresses this. more so, i think bot are of value as it helps minnows gain traction on their posts but i wonder if its still gonna last longer because of abuses. thanks for sharing this

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The votes of minnows have no power against whales, so @steemcleaners is the biggest in SP, who is tasked to downvote anyone who is reported for any sort of abuse.

Some of this is "dutch" to me (LOL!) but I am learning a lot. I read this post twice and I think I grasped the idea of what is going on. Thanks.

hello @dutch

I came across this in the new tab. Thank you for sharing this with us. After reading things have become a lot more clearer to me at least. I'm still pretty new here. I agree with your thoughts though on changing how flags work.

I wasn't aware of Hardfork 19. Glad this implementation happened. :)