It was the comments that grinded the gears of a lot of people especially me because here I thought that I was helping people build their accounts and rewarding engagement only to find out it becomes dust.
A lot of people have this feeling (including me). It wasn't that long ago that my 1% was not enough and I thought I was doing the right thing.
That post had the positive effect of letting a lot of people know about the threshold and I admire Tim to be able to have the guts to bring it center stage and draw all the criticism. He wasn't the one that coded it in the first place (I am not sure)
No he wasn't the coder, he just knows the details. His discussion started many other discussions which is the point of it in my opinion. Offer an unsuitable solution and then discuss heavily.
Given that I gave my solution of increasing the weight of my vote to make sure that it is 0.03 to take lowering price of Steem in the 3.5 window just to be sure.
Yep, I agree this is the way to go.
It is a win-win for me when we start behaving positively like that.
This might actually make the platform better in some ways considering it might improve comments and make people think a little more where their vote goes.
Indeed it was a spark that was needed to discuss, give people to weighh in their two cents, offer options and arrive at action plans that were right for them.
And we need to make more engagement and good comments. Too many posts that don't have comments and are mere placeholder posts for self votes and bots. If we are to move as a platform we need people who will be passionate and engaged. We have a great product. It is not a perfect system but we need to do what we can to make positive changes to the system.