There is no way for better distribution the way things are at the moment. A good solution would be the one you proposed. Or Steemit inc could just use its stake and perform the way busy.org does. That way hundreds of upvotes would be distributed every day to content creators plus steemit would earn tons of curation rewards. Win win.

Thanks for writing this post.

There are many ways we change the distribution and have more middle class citizens are 


1. We need all crypto and Blockchain community members to be steemit user
2. DApps are the new whales and DApps will create and bring more middle class
3. Everyone should do their fair contribution to bring middle class to invest thier money and time with steem DApps

I like to assume the whales are dormant and it is us minnows working to become dolphins that are creating the most of the momentum.  I am pretty sure this next generation will be supporting eachother and the next caretakers of the platform.  The ruling class (most but not all) have become lazy and it is up to us to take over the kingdom in a peaceful uprising.

>A fun thought experiment I like to play out, is if SteemIt, Inc. Delegated 10k-40k to MANY active curators for short periods of time - 6 months or less, we would have more active stake rewarding more content. 

This would be a great idea! Many of us could feel like a king for a while, and reward the content that is special to us. My blocktrades delegation ran out and now (considering the 200 some SP I'm delegating myself) I lost my slider. 😲

By the way, what's the difference between a minnow and a redfish?

That's the main drive of @helpie - creating a middle class that is long term that is not afraid to power up... and we are doing great. You should swing by one day.

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>What do you think about distribution...

Whenever my rewards get me down it always helps to think back to how long it took to get my first cheque from Facebook.

>... and how we can achieve a better middle class to support the sites?

Get rid of counterfeit steem production. A solution was proposed in an old blog post of mine. A link to the post is included below for your reading pleasure.

https://steemit.com/steem/@novacadian/a-decentralized-capcha-annonymous-proof-of-brain-verification

Yeah, I remember the "Whale Experiment." I even remember getting flagged by Smooth a couple of times... and actually being somewhat in *agreement* with the flags, within the confines of the experiment parameters.

"Fair" voting is a tough nut to crack. N^2 didn't work. Now we have linear. At the time, I remember suggesting a "reverse logarithmic" curve... tiny minnows start with n^2 voting power and then relative voting power gradually decreases as your SP increases till maybe 100,000SP and up, where it just becomes straight linear. That weighs votes in favor of smaller accounts... with large minnows and dolphins (typically the most active people on the site) also having the most benefit. That suggestion got shut down because it would "discourage investment."

At the time, I didn't pursue it, but in retrospect, the comeback would be *"why are we so obsessed only with LARGE investors?*" Why not have a system that favors *thousands* of people putting in a few $K each, rather than a handful each putting in a million?

For the moment? I simply choose to *support* the smaller manual curation organizations building here... I support the more "community based" witnesses... I encourage people to join initiatives like @abh12345's "Curation and Engagement Leagues," which are growing organically, and filled with highly "interactive" people.

Afterthought: I think a lot of the "slowness" in Developing Steemit is a result of "them" discovering that building a social media venue on a decentralized system like this? Getting all these people to go in the same direction by consensus? SLOW system. It's like city government with too many committees that have to be consulted. It takes forEVER. Or so it seems...

>A  fun thought experiment I like to play out, is if SteemIt, Inc. Delegated 10k-40k to MANY active curators for short periods of time - 6 months or less,

Wouldn't that be the dream. I certainly would not object to it personally....lol

> A fun thought experiment I like to play out, is if SteemIt, Inc. Delegated 10k-40k to MANY active curators for short periods of time - 6 months or less, we would have more active stake rewarding more content.

This was an idea I talked about with some of my local communities before as we were talking about people that Steem InC delegated before like sweetsjjj, surpassinggoogle, and dapps like Dmania and Steempress.

The whole reputation thing of Steem is broken, I had one user who wrote how to have reputation 60 and 1k followers in a month which was about self voting, botting and doing 4-5 posts a day which is botted 5 SBD a piece before and he had about 65 rep at that time and people followed his advice and was generating posts copies from a Marvel Wiki.

Having a healthy middle class and an engaged community is key to the success of the platform while everyone else waits for the SMT Unicorn to start. I think SMT will do well once people see it successful but at this moment we need to spread out that SP. 

We have a lot of new dapps that are getting delegation and is helpful i getting some votes out. So this trend is helpful. 

Maybe Steem inc might listen to you about this. 

"Just think if we had a strong middle class of users who were engaging, reading, curating, handling abuse and actively involved in the site." 

I think that would be ideal and that is the place I am hoping to reach myself. It doesn't really matter what the economy is, a strong middle class is usually a good indicator of its health and I think you are right about the same being true here.

Wow, that's an INTERESTING experiment and I'm glad you got to tell us the results of it!

" I have been thinking lately that we should try to get more inactive stake voting" <--- I've thought about that a lot as well, but I'm not sure how to make that happen. Haha I was being totally selfish, though. I totally wanted some delegation thrown my way haha. Although I do have a cool project I'd want to be able to do with it. I haven't started on it much yet,  though.

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This is a post I wrote some 6 months back along the same lines you might find interesting. or not. 

https://steemit.com/steemit/@tarazkp/discussion-being-a-steem-business-owner-and-community-node-with-a-steemit-loan

I think delegating small amounts of 10k to 20k to 100 of the better curators on steemit rather than all of it to a few selfish people like sweetjesss or surpassinggoogle (or whatever the fuck their names are) who always upvote themselves, would help this platform a great deal.. There are plenty of great options of people who really make this platform much better thru curation but still have a rather small upvote because they arent greedy!

Wealth distributions have a tendency to behave like a Pareto distributions.  This means that few people control most of the wealth. So the distribution is very lopsided. You can even the distributions by introducing a tax which increases in relation to the total wealth that somebody has.  

So maybe a tax-type system would be suitable for the platform. Of course this yields the problem that dishonest users might split their wealth over many  accounts which are in a lower tax bracket.

I like that idea of Steemit Inc doing more delegations. Maybe they could delegate across the user base. I think it could potentially really help the platform.

I'm new and I'm still learning the ropes so they say. I bookmarked this to read again.

Investing in Steem is a good idea for some who have the finances to get in while Steem is low. But for some who don't have it, growing organically is probably a long slow progress.

For starters, is distribution the same as your share of the reward pool?

Well I think that would indeed be a very good thing if it would be distributed that way. Lot's of minnows are engaging a lot, and doing great curation work on Steemit, this would mean there would probably be a nice growth of those trying to accomplish a higher rank. I like the idea!

I think the problem essentially is the holders of the biggest upvote have purchased their stake, and mostly just wish to earn a relatively easy income through it so they tend to delegate to bid bots to get a good return on their investment.

If those same big stake holders followed a few curation trails instead using an auto-vote service, they could be actively voting on content themselves and still earn through curation. The majority of communities on Steemit now have dedicated curation trails that follow members.

The most active posters on here tend to be the ones with the smallest stake, because of course posting is the best way to grow if you can not invest in directly. It's frustrating for me personally to find on a daily basis incredible quality posts that never receive the recognition they deserve - part of that is the lack big stake holders making use of their vote - but also gaining visibility for a post is just too hard. I don't have a solution to that, but hopefully something is being worked on so the visibility of posts is based on merit because currently it's just how much money someone wants to spend on Bots. I will say I think the @curie team are doing an incredible job, spreading out throughout the community and supporting excellence with a rewarding upvote - I regularly see the posters I enjoy getting @curie upvote which at least means someone supports quality content on here.

I think it will still take a very long time for distribution to balance out, but there are plenty of people and communities here actively working to support, retain and grow accounts. You only have to look at communities like @thealliance, @helpie and the incredible work @welcomewagon does to see real people working hard to make Steemit a more friendly environment and educate new and starting out users on how to improve posts and grow themselves.

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