This morning, I've been sucked into this "Vote" by @double-u with regards to ending ALL delegations on Blurt with the following being the justification for this move:
It will destroy our Blurt community.
It will destroy Blurt.
It is not social to delegate your power and only be able to give weak votes to other users.
It only benefits very large accounts and hurts small accounts.
This "vote" is now ongoing with its built-in bias that will inevitably result in the outcome being support to ban delegations (as I've pointed out in the comments of the original post).
@double-u has also posed the question:
I would say that self-upvoting 100% of your own content is not ok. Is it? And at the time, I thought the self-upvote on this particular post was ironic. But it wasn't. It was hypocrisy. But I digress (and look forward to the inevitable criticism that I will receive from those desperate for a whale upvote)...
With very little additional thought, a far better solution presents itself...
Why not combine these 2 trails of thought to solve your problem - simply stop the ability to receive an upvote from somebody you have delegated to.
This will solve the problem that you have with upvoting services that are slowly eating away at the reward pool that you've dominated for so long. And it will allow curation trails to continue to thrive if somebody wants to support a particular project.
Obviously, you'll have to hope that the inevitable disinvestment and selling of Blurt doesn't create a bear run which Blurt can't recover from.
If Blurt survives this, you can then have another vote on whether to stop yourself and those that previously used these services from self-upvoting 100% of their own content 🤔
For me, this is a very complicated issue. Honestly, I like delegation, but if it's wrong in its implementation, I don't like it either.
However, we need to remember Blurt's slogan: free speech, liberty and freedom!
If it's too restrictive (including the issue of delegation), then maybe someone will protest with the Blurt slogan.
So how? I'm confused!
This is not related to your freedom of expression, no one is restricting your right to express your opinion. You are free to publish your opinions and many other things. But if the services of auto voto, vote buying damage the ecosystem, how banning them affects your freedom of expression? we should let the platform be damaged in favor of these services? the delegations are a point in favor and it is something that I state publicly, but these services should be stopped immediately.
This is a very complicated subject.
On one hand I like Delegations. 🤚
On the other hand I don’t like delegations. ✋
I’m Not sure how to vote ….
🤣 You crack me up 🙌
What ???
You are against the banning of the Delegations ?
Therefore You are now on my Blacklist.
You are now on my Blacklist.
You are on my blacklist.
Bro. Your upvote is worth .10 blurt. Are you serious ?
😂😂😂👍
You have not been voted.
Huh ?
Down with the Blurt bots.
Destroy them all.