What is the point of the promoted tab these days?
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View this post on Hive: What is the point of the promoted tab these days?
Steem is no longer decentralised and may steal your funds. Use Hive instead.
I did not use bots earlier. But then my posts hardly earned $0.10 It felt bad so I tried my hands on the bots. To my surprise I earned good enough. But then I decided to give-up the habit of using bots. It would make me habitual and compromise on quality. So I started avoiding bots but now my blogs are still low paid. I hope I get adopted by some whales who follow me and guide me through these tough days. I have seem many successful people lead by further more successful people.
I tried promoting my post once but did not get even a single up-vote. So decided I will never promote my posts again.
Just keep building your following by interacting with people. That's what I did
Yes, doing that diligently.
The promoted post function is a try at making some real economy - Facebook is add-driven lets make it possible to make adds for post - but I think that it is a bit ineptly thought out and now it is just there...
I'd forgotten that the tab existed actually.
I never go to the trending tab any more because there seems no rhyme or reason behind the rankings, so I just assumed it was some 'pet' authors who got on there. The same with the hot page.
They just seemed like a waste of time.
I'll check the new tab on occasion, but frankly I can't keep up with what's in my feed already, so there is no point going looking for more trouble ;-)
It would be better it the hot and trending pages had a clear reason for the posts being on there and how they are ranked. But for now it just seems random and of no value to me.
Making a little something is good and all but I'm just along for the ride. I've stumbled across some interesting people, learnt a few things and have hopefully posted items that a few people have enjoyed.
I can’t remember a time when I ever checked the promoted tab to find content. I’ve always wondered what the point of it was for that very reason.
I only clicked it today to see what @steevc was talking about. It does seem that they don't do particularly well merely by being on the promoted page. Which in effect makes it not a worry to me. I mostly watch my feed and expand my circle by their resteems and commenters.
That’s a solid way to contribute @schrosct
I never go there and I only check trending and hot to see what is going on generally. I mostly don't vote on anything there as it will have made enough anyway
Hey @stevec, definelty true for the trending page. I’ve still managed to find some undervalued gems under hot, but that might be because I’m using it in the context of a given tab rather than the whole of Steem.
I just don't find time to go exploring much beyond my feed. I rely on people I follow to resteem the best stuff
I'm not a fan of promoting idea, like you said mostly it benefits people who can afford it, and it can be very frustrating to new people.
The promotions tab is inorganic. People don't go out looking for promotions. They want to follow tags that people actually use, because that's what people are actually talking about and where the real engagement is.
If people buy their votes then they not necessarily being talked about. I'd like to see more ways to filter the feeds
Are vote bots something that can be eliminated?
Not really unless there was an organised campaign to make them unviable by people cancelling their votes, but that would take massive SP.
Damn, it's a kink in Steemit's armour. I'm sure they'll fix it.
Promoting blogs on steemit, It's waste of money. There is no profit by promoting blogs.
Well said, I support this.
God bless you my dear. I actually wanted to post exactly this same thing the week when I noticed it