With respect you just have to get over yourself and get involved if you wanna be involved. If you want to have a bigger stake, either earn it by interacting with the community, or turn yourself into a bigger player by investing actual money in the platform to increase the weight of your own voting and vote for yourself and your friends. The system is open to 'abuse', okay, but it is open for anyone to 'abuse it', so is it really abuse or just the way the system works? I am sorry to say it, but this sounds like whining from where I'm sitting, forgive me if I am mistaken. I hope you stick with it and spend time working out what the platform is about, what it can do, and most importantly, what you can do with it and for it. We are all stakeholders, ultimately.
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