They have had to try and address that in this HF, at least in part.  

Have a look at the link if you have not.

I strongly support your statement.  I have no envy about the wealth of others.  Were I laser focused on wealth I am sure I would be, but I am not.

However, I am extremely interested in free speech, and in how Steemit can support those that invest in it.  The conflation of wealth with speech is a censoring mechanism, and seemingly ignores reputation, something that should be a stronger vector for support.

I don't want to censor the wealthy, nor to limit somehow their ability to support content financially they deem worthy.  However, just as I would oppose a big bully pushing smaller people around merely due to their physical size, I do oppose the wealthy pushing the poor around simply due to their wealth.

This, I repeat, is not because of envy, or some sort of dislike of wealth, but out of my personal respect for integrity, clarity in communication, the value of objective reporting, and the people doing it.  

I highly recommend that reputation have an impact on post payouts.  I have a lot to add to this, but already wrote too much here.

It seems that much of the music community is running into folks who love to curate videos from YouTube...from hit artists not on Steemit, and not accompanied with fun facts or anything like that. I'd really like to see less of that.

We just started a group specifically for Steemit Musicians, and expect to see a lot more cross-promoting in our community if you are interested in that sort of thing. I think we are about to band together in a big way (at least in the musical community)...and I think this kind of thing is almost imperative.

Edit: I speak so much about the music community, as it is the one in which I am most embedded. :)

That is a good point.  It is not like several video platforms are being worked on and or tried out to get AWAY from the fascism of YT/Google......

But until that happens, that would be a simple thing to do and get going.

Good idea.

I replied to this comment earlier, but it seemed to vanish?

Anyway, I strongly agree that the means of taking advantage of the permanence of the blockchain @danthegreat outlines would make Steemit better.

So like a bookmark feature for posts you want to save or find later -- that has been discussed a LOT I know by people.

Great idea!  What good is a permanent blockchain if you can't easily recover what is in it in a rational fashion?

Edit:  this is practically the same thought @danthegreat expressed.

The thing is, there is an incentive to vote for yourself, and if there is an incentive, then x.x% of users will always be doing it. 

Either the option to vote on yourself is taken out and nobody does it, or everyone should do it...

Edit: Also remember that the ability to vote for one's self also creates an incentive to buy and power up Steem - which is good for everyone.

Well, we could not blame them because they did not invest in the platform for nothing, they have to make sure they're going to earn returns with their investments. There are just those who were lucky to receive their votes.

I think it should be a given that each account will upvote it's own posts.  Once.  However, I consider the situation of multiple accounts, and how that can drain the Steemit account to extract personal wealth.

The classic problem of the commons.  

I haven't thought of a reasonable way to limit the number of accounts an individual can have, or a different valid reason to do so - but this is a valid reason.  In the event that Steemit becomes a platform for governance, it will be necessary to limit a person to voting but once.

Anybody else care to share thoughts on this issue?

More of a SteemIt, ChainBB, Zappl, eSteem feature... but I have been talking with a few developers about add-ons to these platforms.

Good idea for sure.

Great idea!!!

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on my page.   I put up a reminder post early in the day each Friday (up now) and then after 5-7  pm EST -- the main post goes up and we gather community there on that post for a whole weekend, every weekend, drop in and out as you like and visit.

Just a reminder too..... every week on Friday nights EST - we have a 

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on my page.   I put up a reminder post early in the day each Friday (up now) and then after 5-7  pm EST -- the main post goes up and we gather community there on that post for a whole weekend, every weekend, drop in and out as you like and visit.

If it can be done without the need of displaying banner ads in the website, its possible, but if it does includes displaying banner, lots of steemians may not like it because they had enough banners on almost all sites they visited.

This had been a center of conversation in the past. There were discussions of the pros and cons but still final I guess were not yet achieve. In the mean time, its on status quo

Interesting ideas again.

Followed you just now.

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on my page.   I put up a reminder post early in the day each Friday (up now) and then after 5-7  pm EST -- the main post goes up and we gather community there on that post for a whole weekend, every weekend, drop in and out as you like and visit.

I think you have a good point.  Users unfamiliar with html will have more difficulty formatting their posts to look better.

Despite the fact that I could once just write a webpage in notepad as a text doc (a long time ago=p) I haven't yet managed to get the markup bar working, and either don't format, or have to do as I did in the past and just write the html into the post.

It could be easier, perhaps templates, or modules, etc.., for folks with less html knowledge so their posts can be more valuable to our community.

It is, to me, the content of the ideas in the post, generally, that is of most value, rather than the formatting, but the formatting can impede that communication if it is an impediment by demanding more time and work than necessary.

The more time we must spend figgerin' out how to do it, the less time we can spend doin' it.

And everybody wants to spend as much time doin' it as possible.

I've always thought that something similar like this would be good -- as in when you open up the SUBMIT window - inside it a couple options / links auto open to give you the option for a more noob friendly version or option, etc.

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Just a reminder too..... every week on Friday nights EST - we have a 

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on my page.   I put up a reminder post early in the day each Friday (up now) and then after 5-7  pm EST -- the main post goes up and we gather community there on that post for a whole weekend, every weekend, drop in and out as you like and visit.

There is a lot of bad behaviour associated with DV posts much of the time, you are right.

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Just a reminder too..... every week on Friday nights EST - we have a 

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on my page.   I put up a reminder post early in the day each Friday (up now) and then after 5-7  pm EST -- the main post goes up and we gather community there on that post for a whole weekend, every weekend, drop in and out as you like and visit.

I agree, the search is not that good and also many people do not like the fact it is connected to Google, the police state globalist.

Just a reminder too..... every week on Friday nights EST - we have a 

### #SteemitCampfire

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on my page.   I put up a reminder post early in the day each Friday (up now) and then after 5-7  pm EST -- the main post goes up and we gather community there on that post for a whole weekend, every weekend, drop in and out as you like and visit.