Are we at least having a good Christmas party?

Yes it’s very discouraging for anyone who has a SPS or is thinking of doing one. Kind of destroys the purpose of the system. 

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The SPS is like a clown and another fail project... ;)

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@mindtrap, This **Information** is appreciable. Definitely **Steemians** should understand the importance of **Proposals**. In my opinion we have to hold the patience too because, i think that majority of **Steemians** are not aware of **Proposals**. Stay blessed.

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I brought this up at SteemFest4: I'd really like the ability to weight my vote for the return proposal. Say, 50% normally and 100% when I'm grumpy.
My reasoning is that right now, my vote for the return proposal is a vote against all proposals while my votes for proposals nullify my vote against them given via approving the return propasal. So basically, I'm not voting for anything, but instead raising the bar for all proposals.
I guess I could kludge the same effect by decoupling some of my proxy accounts but that seems a weird and extra work.

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Thanks for the reminder @mindtrap, I just went there and made a review of my own votes, and I found some that I thought worthy, have an awesome weekend.

Does this mean Portland steemit meetups get funding? How about the steemit 420 party 3rd party? 

Amazed at the fall of steemit and seeing so many people freak. It's driven away huge amounts of people and the content. 

Maybe one day we can continue growing and stop bleeding users. 

I've stacked and grown and spread votes to grow this platform. I'm hopeful that things change and get fixed. Steemit had much to offer.

I don't have enough of a stake to make any difference. However, I like the return proposal because it makes the proposal system more challenging. That being said. There are too many votes for it right now.

Not just are the proposals right now not getting funded but probably more importantly who is gonna create better proposals and submit them in this environment? We will see less submissions for a while... but some day sps will likely work again

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Thx for reminding me about the return proposal. I have been kind of critical of the current proposals we have as i dont see them being nearly worth it in the market we have right now. Most are extremely unreasonable in their funding amounts.
We need more compelling proposals. Simple as that. 
Not stuff like, Keychain, blacklist, Steemconnect maintenance that would cost tens of thousands of dollars worth of SBD.

I would be happy if there were something akin to a downvote button for proposals but for now i will use my vests to vote for the return proposal. 

I think Dan(that guy yeah, we all have our diff about him but he did raise a good point) complained about Bitshares doing the same thing. 
This post:
https://steemit.com/crypto-news/@dan/is-the-dao-going-to-be-doa
The Anti-Spending Movement section of his post. 
Key parts that I think apply:
>It didn’t take long for the BitShares community to realize that funding projects today would cause a short-term fall in the value of BitShares. Unable to bear the short-term paper-loss and psychological impact of a lower market cap, people started electing proxies that would vote against all spending proposals.

I think we need better, more compelling proposals. 

Right now (I guess things have shifted a bit since your post) the keychain development and consensus proposal to reduce power down time to 4 weeks (which has no budget cost attached to it) are both sitting above return.

In the past we have seen a lot of very questionable or poor proposals. Those are supposed to be below return.

I personally share your view that the documentation proposal is a good one, but ultimately it is up to the voters and voters are _less_ convinced by that one than the others.

As far as I can tell the system is working, but proposers need to up their game. I shouldn't have to remind anyone that Steem is suffering from some very hard times economically. More funds flowing out and potentially getting sold on the market is not cost-free. Proposals to spend money need to be _compelling_.