I'm interested to see what the impact of minnows downvoting would be.  There is a term, the 'wisdom of the crowd'.  Do you think this term might apply now that minnows downvotes have some weight behind them?

I don't want to pick on particular authors, but I do see some payouts for posts that seem a little excessive.  Now that could be due to them being wildly popular and upvoted by many.  I suspect at the moment that some of them are due to autovoting on particular authors, and the dog pile effect.

In the past there where posts that made several, or tens of thousands for one post.

Do you think a post should be paid $300?

Do you think a post should be paid $200?

At what point does a payout become obscene (Offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty)?

I would like to see the minnows of Steemit, and perhaps even the dolphins, exercise the power of their downvote on posts that they consider being paid 'too much'.   Now I understand that is subjective.  A minnow vote or a dolphin vote is only going to change the outcome by a 1 to 10 cents, but if enough people perceive a post paid as receiving 'too much' then it will make an impact.  This is a beta.  We are in the 'experiment'.  We should be testing this.

What are your thoughts?

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I think the question that needs to be asked by minnows and dolphins is 

# Is it good for you?

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