@beeyou wrote a post about this the other day and I too was shocked to find out about it! The scammers will always find away around these kinds of "rules", but I can see the 'little guys' getting completely discouraged very quickly.
I also quickly made the connection to 0.01 upvoting on comments...so disappointing to say the least. I guess we should all continue commenting and not worry so much about the upvote?
I'm with you on the "high horse" comments as well; very very discouraging.
This is our community, care for the little ones.
I believe it is our responsibility to do just that, and to focus on the ground floor up, as opposed to the penthouse down!
Thanks for bringing awareness to this Mav; very important stuff!
This was brought to my attention by @eonwarped and it was just a WTF moment for me.
It's hard enough to get noticed now as there are more people but to say that the vote of a person who doesn't reach that threshold is unimportant is rather elitist and anti minnow for me.
So even if it means that I might need to ration off the number of votes I give us because I want to make sure that I reward teh interactions I receive.
Indeed this is the way that we need to be kept informed and in the know.
Exactly!!!! I couldn't come up with the right words, but you did:) It is "elitist and anti-minnow" for sure.
I'll be curious to hear of any updates on it. fyi @glenalbrethsen used to be in newspapers (not as a celebrity, but worked for one:), so I've asked that he put his dog-sniffing journalistic hat on and find out what he can. I know this goes against my chances of regaining the crown, because every update is another novel haha, but I figured it was worth it to see what else he could find out :)
I'll await his response here ;) Give us what you've got Glen!
Okay, so, @maverickinvictus as I told @lynncoyle1 on whatever post we were on at the time, Tim Cliff told me in a reply that the discussion about the dust threshold payout wasn't going anywhere, and that he didn't think more thought needed to be put into it.
I had asked how it would work in conjunction with a 1.219 SP shift down at payout that is actually a part of the upcoming HF 20. Here's his reply:
I haven't been back to the post to read through other comments, so I don't know if he's changed his mind back because of someone else's comments, but I think based on what I read, the tide was clearly pulling against.
As for intentionally elitist and anti-minnow. I guess it doesn't matter what the intent is, it was going to affect minnows and it did have an elitist tone to it. However, I'm giving Tim the benefit of the doubt in this: he really wants to get rid of spam. That doesn't justify burning most of Steemit down and all the minnows with it. Despite some of his comments about what constitutes value, which I wouldn't have used, I still think his heart was in the right place.
However, if he comes up with another idea like this one, or I stumble upon something else, I reserve the right to change my mind. :)
Indeed his heart is in the right place to want to rid the platform of spammers but would also hurt most of the legitimate red fishing.
It is almost like burning your house down to get rid of the mice.
We will all be out in the streets or a different platform.
My grandmother actually sort of did that. Well, not really. Her house wasn't burned, but it was knocked down. And not to get rid of the mice or even because it was condemned. New owners had bought her property, and there was two houses on it. The owners kept the newer home down the hill and had the older one up the hill flattened. Out came all the mice just the same. :)
Yeah. It's probably last resort time at this point with the spam. More than one person seems to be pulling their hair out about it. :)
Haha indeed he has been leaving so many novels but his comments are just awesome and has a lot of useful things in it.
It clearly shows that he researches and investigates before trying to answer.
This would really do well if he considers being in Curie.
Well the phrase elitist and anti-minnow seems an apt description of how they are responding to the matter before it became apparent that was how they are.
I love his novels, and you're onto something with the Curie idea. He would fit perfectly in that role!