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Awesome post as always! I haven't seen mars at a close pass yet. Have barely managed to resolve the Polar caps with my 8" dob. Didn't know that Olympus Mons is resolvable with amateur telescopes!

Hey Terry! FWIW, I read all your posts with interest. However, I have (almost) stopped commenting or posting here because of the very cons that you mentioned. I had imagined a popular platform like Steemit

No, at any given moment, there will be some new good posts that have just been published. You don't have to curate all to curate some. Agreed partly, because for some timezones that are not very active,

You're incentivized to vote after 30 minutes. Oops; I stand corrected! I had understood it when I joined Steem, then got confused by some discussions last week. Thanks for correcting me.

All I'd say is, witnessing is a political position, and you have to campaign diligently to get higher up the ranks Creating a new account requires 0.1 steem and 10 delgated SP. So whales with, for example,

Curation rewards as currently implemented are a joke. You have to upvote that content within 30 minutes, and they want to further reduce that to 15 minutes in the next fork. So, you have to be continuously

I'm not sure if it would be suited for developing a social media app onto I believe it would be possible to create a sophisticated social media app, in which you could curb the :self-aggrandising: that

It's a gamification of rewards for content creation. That's what I (naively) believed when I joined. And when it works, because of good people creating good content, it works beautifully. However, the

this still rewards splitting votes across posts. That's a great point. But I beleive that can be solved too by the same method. When you calculate the reward for a user, you calculate the total steempower

I was thinking about this. The Sqrt needs to be applied to the total SP for a post and not individual votes. That is, Sqrt(v1*sp1 + v2*sp2 + v3*sp3...) and not Sqrt(v1*sp1) + Sqrt(v2*sp2) + Sqrt(v3*sp3)

The simple solution is to change the reward weight to: votingPower * sqrt(SP) so that SP doesn't have a linear effect.

I think no special incentive is required. If the author powers up, they can vote on their own post and thus reap more rewards than by not powering up.

Thank you too @vladimir-simovic for taking a look!

@terrylovejoy Ah yes.. I understand it better now. The circular shapes in the spectograph had confused me, but now I see that the shape is co-incidental, and not a super-imposed image of the nebula itself.

@terrylovejoy I didn't "get" the Spirograph nebula's image with diffraction grating. Is this a single exposure with multiple images of the same object? Or different exposures put together? Thanks!

Ah, I am new here, and not sure what "communities" feature will bring, although I have heard the feature being mentioned before. If "communities" helps with moderation within the site,

SteemSTEM is a nice idea and I laud the efforts of the team! To help improve post quality, I suggest building a dedicated website for SteemSTEM. The posts would still be visible on SteemIt, but can go

Wait! Are you the The Lovejoy! I had a great time observing C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy. Thanks and glad to be connected here!

Lovely post! Nice to see a fellow amateur astronomer here. I am more interested in visual observations myself, but like to see astro photographs taken by others. Cheers and I hope to see more from you.