Over 1/3 going to blatant self promotion is not 'diversity', it's noise. It's a false dichotomy . Who is going to invest in a platform full of self voters creaming the rewards pool. Clearly, only those who want to cream the rewards pool. This problem always existed at the top level but now it goes all the way down.
If people have a million bux to invest, they will do just as well to rent cloud miners, and won't spam it up for those who actually consider the content to be the purpose of this platform. But they wouldn't get the pleasure of sucking out the rewards pool, diluting the holdings of those who do value content, and then slamming the price down with endless SBD sales and power down to steem and sell out.
It looks at first like they bring money, and then they walk away with more, and where does that leave anyone with long term investment plans?
I don't even have that much stake anymore but I'm looking for the exit, and I'm sure most people are now. The horrible thing is that right now, there is no place else that has as many decent people (!) nor, even, earning potential for honest work (!).
I'm not sitting idle to watch this go on while the best thing to replace FB and Twitter gets sucked down the sewer with this exploitative behaviour. We need something better, somewhere that stake > all is not the opinion of those with the stake.
This site has a mgmt team. Presumably they have long-term goals and a plan to achieve the long-term goals.
If they see current issues on self-voting as problematic, they can and should step in and address it.
Else we end up with community standards.
Which may or may not a positive outcome, depending on the community that chooses to join and stay
STEEM On!!
I hope all the developers didn't abandon the ship and head off to help Dan work on EOS. Always the next big thing just over the horizon. How about making this big thing the next big thing