I have heard about it before, I don't know how can we prevent this, and the newbie user will just come here to experience, it's not a common thing to first see how it works. This is a bigger problem of the world and I don't think we can tackle it just like that.
The whole system could be redesigned to prevent it, but I don't see much attention being thrown on an otherwise working system. I don't see much improvement happening overall on Steem.
While some ideas are amazing and a lot of people are starting up their own imaginations using Steem, I think that a little support from the whales towards education ideas and integration would also be welcomed.
As far as I know SteemSTEM and others could and would be able to curate posts for value, even for paid or promoted posts. This would mean that whales could rely on other groups for content-approving and it would create a market for curators, this would make Steem change hands and it will increase the overall market.
It is clear that the system already being built is not effective, so I think that building another system on top of this one gives it a new chance.
The details of it could surely be implemented by utopian in collaboration with science groups. But will the whales be interested or not.
Why change something that already brings them money?
Yes you are right! May be founders maybe be running many bots and whales. So may be they are against doing anything.
There should be manual curation on at least the larger sized bids.
Yes and bigger groups could easily contribute to this, it's just the problem of starting such a project and the whales trust and willingness to adopt it. This requires empathy and a sense of rightfulness on their part for the ecosystem.
How can we make some whales responsible or emotionally connected to the project and stop making it solely a milking cow?
This is the winner question.