It's not about the minnows at all, it's about the large stakeholders. If you follow the conversation you would recognize that. The large stakeholders are the ones who are looking for maximizing their profits in a rational way, they don't want to sacrifice their profits for policing the network. The crux of the issue is that it takes large stakeholders to counter large stakeholders effectively. Nobody expects 100 minnows to join together and do so effectively. Why would people all of a sudden turn troll? Just because a lost in the sauce nonsense Individual who has been around long enough to know that large stakeholders do care about the health of the network but disregards that evidence for the completely skewed notion that because our resident troll (singular) @berniesanders is flagging with his bots that accounts for the 95% (pulled out of his forgetful ass number) of the flagging. No, a few bad apples do no represent the community outside the fact that we have yet to effectively dissuade their relentless trolling, and no, the community won't suddenly turn into raging homicidal maniacs because you empower them with tools for self defense. What the fuck kind of latrine trash reasoning do you and other such prophets adhere to? Fuck me with a bulldozer.
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If it was not meant for minnows and the population in general then they would not have had polls to change the flag to a down arrow, they would not have pinned the Initial couple of EIP post, and they certainly would not have pinned this one for all on steem to see.
History and experimentation show that given unchecked power people will use that power. Take a re-look at the Stanford Prison Experiment, take a look at any social behavior experiment that give the ordinary extraordinary powers. Un like YT, FB, and a few other sites there is no real troll type activity other than the few serial down voters/flaggers on steemit. One does not need to be a prophet to look on seem and see or hear about the of accounts that were bullied off the platform from flaggers. (Some deserved it, others not.)
This downvote pool has never been about anything other than money. I have never said it is about anything other than the big stakeholders wanting to make more money.
It takes large stakeholders to fix it, I thought I clearly pointed that out with showing how many minnows and dolphins it would take to come together and have an effect on a large payout.
Perhaps there is a language barrier for you or a comprehension issue.
The "large stakeholders do care about the health of the network", they do not care about the health of the network, they care about the health of their investment.
However all that said, thank you for such an enlightening response, I have never been schooled by someone that wants to be screwed in the ass by a bulldozer.