I was on the phone with my bank last week and when I had completed my business and the up-sell commenced, not one of the products offered made any sense to use, and before I rang off, the banker asked me how I knew so much about finances! Good grief.
As a minnow considering my steemit foray, I can assure anyone who gives have a shyte that I would have figured this out in due time as well. I'm amazed at how brazen easy money makes most people. The standard justifications are widely accepted, "If I don't do it, someone else will"
"Most people don't understand the system, and that's no one's fault but their own."
I couldn't agree more that the downvote is suspect, a lack of transparency and weight being thrown around to occlude activities further, certainly do not encourage me to buy steem dollars nor participate as actively. A rigged system is a rigged system.
Yes, but it is important to recall it is beta. So if we are going to implement any fixes before it is no longer beta, now is the time to do it. I do think it could be limited. Gaming the system can never be completely eliminated. Yet there is a difference between sock puppets and being able to repress the rights of others. It is repressing the rights of others to support the things they are interested in that has me most concerned.