While I have strongly advocated for equal VP, I have even more strongly advocated for weighting VP with reputation, after removing the ability to game reputation with self votes.

It would still be gamable with botnets and sockpuppets, but still largely represents community vetting, which is a lot better than SP.

I reckon some changes to the reputation system could go a long ways towards making Steemit far more equitable to quality content creators, and less so towards profiteers.

Certainly reputation can be abused now. One only has to look at Hive account@berniesanders to see just how abused reputation can be! While there are many that feel his flagging deep into negative reputation was more than deserved, I do not feel that two wrongs make a right.

I also feel that we should be able to uncensor posts from those with flagging reputation decreases, just as we can for NSFW posts.

The fact is that Steemit may have decentralized servers, but power to censor, and reward, is highly concentrated, through VP weighting.

Thanks for bringing your post to my attention.