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i tend to worry it further tightens the reigns of a popular author... I can already vote for articles I am confident will trend without reading them. I don't see how this provides a solution aside from changing the structure.

If I had to mute or unfollow anyone I disagreed with.... I would never have seen them on other posts I agree with.

Seems we all have much to learn on how to balance out these matters with the system in place that we see being lopsided in a few ways.

Yes, the ability for someone to vote without reading a post will impact the success of the platform. Steemit needs quality content, and quality content can only be appraised by human eyes. J.