250 SP to @steem-ua.
Lost my voting percentage slider, but hardly used it anyway.
Still a 1 cent vote.
It is easy to be critical. It is quite a challenge though to offer a working alternative. Sure, voting bots took over trending, like it is an advertising page. It can even give a somewhat distorted impression about Steem. It fits perfectly within the Social Media Platform on a Blockchain. And the freedom of expression is still there. Which is quite a nice thing to have actually. Few platforms are truly free and open like Steem. But there is always room for improvement.
And when some change is wanted, to benefit individuals and the community at the same time, the best way to go about it is doing so from the outside. As the inner circle of any system, most of the time, will be quite conservative about it. Not that they would be against any change being made to the core of a system, but why do so if it already benefits them? To put it in another way: "Never change a winning team." Well, that is if one is part of that particular team.
In that case, which is even understandable to some level, any big change to a system, being suggested from the outside, will be considered, but probably also dismissed. The great thing about Steem though is that it offers all kinds of tools to create an alternative build upon its own blockchain motor. No need to fork it off, just create something awesome that interacts with it and shows proof that is actually works. And who knows it then might even get implemented, more or less, in the upcoming hardfork 21.
A different approach.
Make the Steem experience better, for individuals and the community as a whole. And I'm convinced the Smart Media Tokens {SMT} are part of that proces. March 23rd 2019 still seems so far away, really looking forward to it. But there is more, like a community driven project like Steem User Authority {UA} proves. It is a different approach to the voting system, that also gives small accounts a chance. That will show good content, opposed to self sponsoring bidbot advertisment on trending.
And the beauty of it is that they both can excist. Maybe even inspire the Steem developers to take note and look for a way to implement the User Authority {UA} into the core of Steem. Today I did delegate 250 Steem Power {SP} for the first time. And I did so to @steem-ua. This means my vote will weight in less and my voting percentage slider will be gone, but I think Steem UA is something that really could be a game-changer.
Steem on!
Steem User Authority
The brandmark of @steem-ua.
Steem UA resource
Website - https://steem-ua.com
Your UA score - https://v2.steemconnect.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=steem-ua.app&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fsteem-ua.com%3A5000%2Fauth&scope=login