This is really a great and inspiring post needed to change the steem blockchain  around. With this, I still believe there is hope with good content creators.

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__Ich bin auch kein Freund der 5 Minuten Schranke.__
Allerdings will ich gerne zugeben, daß ich mir noch nie sonderlich viel Gedanken darüber gemacht habe, warum man das Votingsystem nun genau in welcher gestalten muß (inkl. 7 Tage Schranke). Ich schreibe hier, curatiere und lese auch so weit es mir meine Lust, mein Spaß und meine Zeit erlaubt. Ich sehe die Plattform funktioniert "irgendwie" gefühlt so "einigermaßen" bis ganz gut. Ich finde es aber gut, daß es Leute gibt, die sich mehr Gedanken dazu machen als ich und sich dafür auch engagieren.

People who are famous for BIG SP meet the trending post. Difficult to find variations of posts with ordinary users.

In various tribes, I have also seen the contents of trending posts made popular by curators and other famous people.

Sometimes I feel surrendered to post good content because there are no "big users" who care about my posts.

Through @Curangel I tried to vote for users who had not been explored well in Steem. I see many old users on Steem that can't earn more than 1 Steem, even with good content.

https://steemit.com/busy/@whatsup/a-look-at-your-top-30-paid-authors

:)

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Happy Weekend @jaki01 !BEER

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100% agree and it's a breath of fresh air to see a post on how it is instead of one that just gives blind praise just because it gets the upvotes.

Proper curation is somewhat of a fallacy, you simply can't expect the majority to buy Steem and Power Up just to plow through all the garbage that is being posted on the platform to find something they like to selflessly upvote it while they would earn a lot more with a lot less effort just by post2mine & upvote4upvote. The non-linear reward curve really killed the small accounts as it's just way more profitable to upvote posts you know will get more upvotes. Even though it's a good way to fight spam and abuse, the idea that you vote is worth less when upvoting smaller guys is just wrong.

The no curation window idea might actually work.

If anything, Steemmonsters really shows everyone how it should be done and I like the idea that anyone can empower themselves. Sadly enough, it looks like some big bully accounts are using their free downvotes to flag genuine steemians that use some of the DEC they earned to get more exposure in the Steemmonsters tag. (<a href="https://steemit.com/steemmonsters/@transcript-junky/steem-monsters-drug-wars-power-strategy-tips-26">Post</a>)

You were actually the first-ever whale vote I got myself over 2 years ago, Thanks again for that!

hallo Jaki01, du sprichst mir mit vielem aus der Seele aber das weißt du ja jetzt sowieso, ich würde mich genauso wie du darüber freuen wenn hier die kleineren mal eine etwas größere Rolle spielen dürften denn die sind unsere Zukunft wenn wir denn eine haben wollen, wie im richtigen Leben unsere Kinder die sind die Zukunft ohne die wird es sehr sehr bald sehr sehr trist werden auf diesem Planeten und vielleicht auch bald hier bei Steemit.

Wenn ja wenn nicht endlich ein paar der dicken Fische mal die Augen richtig  aufmachen und ein wenig nachdenken wie Geld vom Himmel fallen soll wenn keiner mehr was leistet sprich Beiträge schreibt.

Habe mir heute ebenfalls erlaubt mir etwas Luft zu meinem Unmut zum Verhalten einiger eignetlich angesehener Steemians zu machen (Post ist unter dem account von don-t in englisch und deutsch veröffentlicht) ich erwarte keine Heiligsprechung dafür sondern wahrscheinlich Schelte aus allen Ecken.

Aber egal wir sehen nach vorne, nicht nach hinten dir und deiner Familie noch einen schönen restlichen Sonntag 

vom Andalusier

Don T

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for @jaki01

I left Steemit a year ago or so for these same reasons.  The "too big to fails" were unabashedly abusing their power, blatantly in front of everyone.  As an artist, who invested significant time into each of my posts, it was impossible to justify contributing quality content to the platform.  

Well, I recently started posting here again and have actually seen a general trend toward the positive.  There seems to be a more consistent investment by curators.  Though the return does not outweigh my investment it seems to be slightly more stable overall.  

I am going to continue to post high powered content for some time, to see if it ends up being worth it.  But if it turns out to be more of the same I would rather just focus my energy into building my audience on Facebook.  That's where 90% of my business comes from.  Can't really compete with that.

I hope not to scare you with this long comment. :) I have no resistance towards your points raised and refer also towards what I read in the comment-section. 

For a view from another angle it probably looks like this in the Steemosphere: 

People try by all means to persuade other people to behave according to a system that revolves around the currency "attention". The attention span has reached a strange degree at which it is fleeting. When we talk about incentives, we are talking about behavioural adaptations that often unconsciously put people under pressure.  The 7-day window, the VP wheel, which should always show exhaustion at the end of the day if one wants to be considered a good Steemian, the distribution of the curation rewards after how many minutes. We treat each other as if we have already accepted that a system that offers mathematical and economic mechanisms must be used in exactly this way, although of course we could behave differently. I see it similarly to you. 

I think that in a system where a single actor unites all functions in one function, it will not have an inspiring attraction, but the opposite. The participants will become all the more frustrated, the more adjustments the system requires of them in terms of quantitative participation. 

Contents are, as it were, nothing more than mathematical quantities; they are basically not really important in this system, because they are fed by all means into automatisms that oil a mindless computational equation. On the surface a content seems to be welcome, but below it the nature of the platform offers numbers. 

Has it ever happened to you (who might read this) that you happened to stumble across a "whale" account and you see that this account doesn't publish comments or replies, but is a silent account that just votes? Did you have the impulse that this anonymous person should please be approachable? 

The thing is: A whale shouldn't and can't represent everything in one function. When he starts a community, he is prone to corruption and nepotism. It's human nature to gain advantages by making friends with someone in a position of power. When account holders and community founders make their debut in a position as strong as a whale, and promise to reward good content and punish bad content, one is acting like a monarch. One doesn't distribute ones power to independent institutions, but bundle it centrally. If one does this, one will attract both: Flatterers, opportunists and lobbyists as well as opponents and haters. 

You can start with the very best intentions and I'm sure whoever founds communities has only the best in mind. But thousands of years of human civilization history has shown that the most powerful don't see their own stumbling blocks. Which consultant can you trust, who will ask you critical questions that you, because you want to be mature in spirit, do not regard as a violation of your vanity? 

The basic idea of a healthy system is the division of powers. Those who belong to the three different pillars are not allowed to have backroom conversations, they must offer voluntary transparency and reporting to the public. They have a liability to bring. 

Those who want to make rules must have the mandate of those who consider themselves to belong to this rules. There is a lot of confusion about this here on Steemit, and while you are an enthusiastic supporter of Community A today, you can turn your back indignantly on it tomorrow. The same goes for the curators: today a content producer is celebrated and tomorrow he can fall into disgrace. Nobody likes that, actually. Every one would like to have at least *some* sort of certainty. But here it's more about the person than the content. 

So the community drivers, like the individual users, are not really committed to each other. As soon as an individual criticizes a community (driver), it is defended by lobbyists and the self-interests of other actors as if it needed to be defended. Small accounts stand in front and defend large accounts, as they sense an opportunity to profile themselves. 

Where content like firewood is used to light a campfire, but almost nobody sits around it in a circle to hear good stories, we have an absurd system.  We have seen on facebook that the individual has basically become a sort of pass-through station to forward this or that content. I think though that the local or small groups see themselves as valuable and do their thing without caring much about likes or dislikes. 

My attitude is that not a single one should care about the "masses to be brought in". They would come all by themselves if they found fun, interest and inspiration. It is rather the other way around and I would like to close with the paradox that this could be: Never try to help the weak or please the strong.

>Especially I would like to see more unpopular authors getting some rewards!

**Then people all you have to do is upvote me!**

***i am kidding......................or maybe not?***  :P