RE: My Newsteem Economic Philosophy Freewrite
Of course I have, several times over the years, not that it was ever updated.
The issue is that "rules" are appearing in places they shouldn't, like this post, and the NewSteem vigilantes are all quick to back each other up and enforce these rules with their huge stakes... but I'm saying that if these truly are rules/laws, they MUST be written down somewhere official. Much of what is being said here in this post is NOT in the official source of rules/laws/guidelines for this blockchain. (Otherwise, this post would be spam, and definitely not worth $20+, if it's just restating what is already common knowledge!)
If these concepts really are laws of the land, let's write them down, and live under rule of law. Making up new rules as they (mainly unelected insiders and whales) go along is NOT acceptable to me and shouldn't be to anyone who values decentralization.
Not sure what you refer to. He's not talking about a secret team of vigilantes, but generally of people who use their downvotes against colluding groups and defective voters, who don't use their stake to evaluate content but to maximize their own rewards. That aligns completely with the whitepaper, which explains that downvotes are the only way to fight these behaviours.
It's obviously not common knowledge that the reward pool is not thought to provide a maximum apr to investors. I recently had a discussion where one of them told me that voting is a form of tipping.
If these people would have read and understood the whitepaper, and would act according to it, all of this wouldn't be necessary. Unfortunately it is.
The governance of the reward pool is decentralized. You can disagree, but my opinion isn't spam. I have been supportive of you and your initiatives, but now you're just insulting me. I value dissenting opinions, but you are just behaving like a jackass now. Downvote it if you don't like the rewards. It has already been nuked by $20 in downvotes and low and behold, the calvary came. Why do you suppose that is?
And you wonder and whine about why your support and engagement here is like pissing up a tree. We're done.