Quote from: iamnotback on July 25, 2016, 05:00:53 PM

ranking system is a circle-jerk...

I entirely expect to not get upvotes. I will be surprised if I do.

The corporate world adopted political correctness to maximize potential revenue stream, and since Steem is run as a business, I suspect you would see the same thing here. You already know who your target audience is going to be beforehand while distribution is in it's current state, so I know exactly if my post will be upvoted or not before even making it. I did a test of that yesterday, making a post I knew would be unpopular on purpose.

I already know most people in the Bitcoin spectrum love to tout the idea of anarchy as some type of super cool thing and the solution to all the world's problems, while I believe statism and anarchy have pretty much the same endgame. You could even argue we already live in anarchy and the 500 people in the house, senate, and presidency are just an armed gang holding people hostage.

So, let's see what the test results are. My post saying anarchy and statism is all the same difference:

https://steemit.com/anarchism/@r0achtheunsavory/anarchy-doesn-t-exist-it-s-the-equivalent-of-a-simpsons-parody

Some guy who is mostly citing other people talking about how cool and awesome anarchy is:

https://steemit.com/anarchy/@modprobe/response-sorry-libertarian-anarchists-capitalism-requires-government

And the guy who wrote the wildly more upvoted anarchy article responding to me: