I know that everyone is here with intent to make money, while there are a handful here for the sake of it being a new platform.
One of the things I've noticed lately is there is a lot of conversation is about "who is this whale" and "how to get whales to up vote you" along with some serious begging for votes across all chat platforms I'm a part of (rocket.chat, slack, irc, etc.). Unfortunately stuff like this hurts steemit in the long run. Users who see this are quickly becoming aware that if they don't start getting "whales" to upvote them, there isn't a possibility to make any money. Other users who have made some very high quality posts have gone unnoticed because of the "whale-votes" applied to other users.
My proposal to mitigate these problems is to modify the algorithm in which vote weight holds true based on a sliding scale or a bell curve. Some of you may be familiar with this model, as it has been used in school from time to time as a grading curve.
Based on the user information (taken from https://steemd.com/distribution) You can see how skewed the staking percentage is. Granted many of the HERO, SUPERHERO, & LEGEND accounts are users who have been following and supporting steem since inception.
In theory this would give the whales less control over the whole platform and at the same time give other users with little to no steem power slightly more power. I think this method as a whole could make the steemit platform much more solid, as it will encourage users to start posting quality material instead of worrying about capturing whale votes with every meme they throw up.
My intent here is certainly not to hurt those who have followed and supported steem since it first started. It is simply an idea to help solidify the platform as a whole and make more demand for quality posts.
Let me know what you guys think about this.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IS WELCOME!