STEEMIT Down Vote Should Be Done Away With Proof Is In The Numbers
I am not going to put hours of time into this article, for many reasons. One being the WHALES will probably not like what I have to say in this article. Here we go , I believe that the down vote on steemit should be done away with, lets say 1000 minnows like your post and you have a payout coming but all the sudden 1 whale comes that does not like it and down votes you, now you made nothing. Why should one Whale be able to be the deciding factor on what is good content. Most of the whales from what I have seen don't write good articles anyway, not sure how they even became whales. I think it would be more fair to just let up votes do the deciding , and if you don't like the article or a picture there would be no vote placed.
Lets take a minute and look at a few numbers
On 7/27/2016 steemit had 38960 accounts
On 8/5/2016 steemit had 47033 accounts
This was an increase of 20.62% in 9 days , that is great until we start to look at the active accounts.
On 7/27/2016 steemit had 15900 active accounts in the last 7 days
On 8/5/2016 steemit had 12405 active accounts in the last 7 days
This is a decrease of 21.98% in 9 days.
On 7/27/2016 steemit had 6425 active accounts in the last 24 hours
On 8/5/2016 steemit had 4547 active accounts in the last 24 hours
This was a decrease of 29.23% in 9 days
Now we can see that just because total accounts are going up it does not mean steemit is keeping those people. Those active accounts should also be going up not down. Now lets look at how we can keep those accounts active , I say by getting rid of the down vote people are attracted to steemit because of the possibility of making money and if 1000 minnows like my stuff and I only make 5 dollars that is fine but if 1000 minnows and one whale like my stuff and I have 500 dollars coming then a different whale comes and takes it all away that is not right. These lost active accounts I believe are from people coming to steemit to make money and yes I agree some articles are no good ,some are great, but I see even great articles not making anything because a whale down voted them. These people will only try so many times before they give up and leave. If steemit is going to survive more people have to have an influence on the upvotes not everyone wants to see just what you whales want to see. The problem is the whales only want certian content on here, but everyone likes different stuff and I am afraid that if this problem is not changed the whales will be swimming alone.
I VOTE GET RID OF THE DOWN VOTE. IF YOU AGREE GIVE ME AN UPVOTE.