The only mechanisms for newsflash and xeldal to literally 'spend their money' would be through tips or direct payments.
The reward pool is a shared resource. It's funded by inflation of stake which is a tax on all stakeholders. When consensus decides to spend money, it is effectively spending ALL of the stakeholders' money, of course more of the larger stakeholders, less of the smaller, as with any sort of pool with unequal shares.
There are only certain types of expenditures that make sense to come out of that sort of shared pool. They're generally expenditures that, in some broad sense at least, the community of stakeholders agrees should be made. In such a mechanism large stakeholders are going to have a large say. Of course, it's not absolute.
If you want upvotes where other stakeholder won't have a say in opposing that payout, including VERY LARGE stakeholders not having a VERY LARGE say (I could be mistaken but I think every account we are talking about here is top 20 if not top 10 or maybe even top 5), that's called a tip. It can and should be done without a shared pool.
Bitclout/Deso is similar to Hive where it is a content publishing platform, but there is no reward pool/inflation and everything is tips.
No one tips outside of the ones who got a massive share of the initial supply and they mostly just pass it along to their group. The default "single click" tip is $0.01, which is used a bit, but still is fairly rare.
With inflation, users will be happy to distribute rewards as it doesn't cost anything, for a tip culture to be successful, we are going to need millions of users with very influential users at the top. Tips are always going to be less than 1% of the user base, probably more like 0.1% or less. I have no incentive to open my wallet and send a tip for some pictures of flowers or a post telling me about the top posts today on Leo Finance.
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Okay, I see your perspective, although I do not entirely share it.
Unfortunately, it seems I have failed to lucidly communicate my perspective.
I sincerely believe our perspectives are not all that different, nor are they fundamentally incompatible with each other.
We both wholeheartedly support stake-weighted governance over the reward pool, with a desire for something close to true consensus as the overarching mechanism.
Maybe I will find a way to be more lucid in my explanations in the near future. Or maybe I’m trying you’re patience too much. If so, I do apologize.
Nonetheless, I do appreciate the time you’ve taken to listen and respond.
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