RACIST ANALYIST -- Bot owners, Nigerian, African, Indian Posters, and 3rd world users you see...
OMG intelliguy -- please don't talk about Nigeria, Africa, or India -- YEAH I AM
Now, when you clicked on this post, I bet you had your mind made up about what I was going to talk about..
- You're wrong.
Stop thinking for a moment and listen.
What I am writing about today is from personal experience.
A chicken, at Costco is worth $5 USD
In Kashmir, India, that same chicken is worth $2 USD
Now here's where things get strange, and obvious...
I met this Kashmir, India person, who was using a word spinner to plagiarise content, to earn coins. I talked to him, and he basically said "my english is not that good, so I use tools to earn coins"
I then asked him, even if you earned a lot of coins... do you know how to convert them to bitcoin, then trade that to your own currency (rupees) and then buy groceries (like chicken)?
He said 'no" - how do you do that?
So to all of you reading this.. there is a hot moment where people overseas are doing everything they can to earn STEEM, SBD, via word spinners, bots, etc. "because the race is on"...
Yet, earning steem is their first step -- yet most of them don't know how to take their earnings and convert into rupees, groceries or chicken.
That's where we sit right now.. Everyone is trying to earn as much STEEM and SBD as they can....
..but they don't know how to convert that SBD or STEEM to a family dinner.. they will worry about that later.
So the next time you login to steemit.com, YOU now know.... who is milking rewards, and who is left hungry because they are still not sure how to convert those rewards into food.
Q; Are you insensitive @intelliguy?
A: no... I just know there are a lot of hungry and desperate people out there, who are doing what they can to earn as many tokens as they can, without ever making their first "cryptocurrency -> fiat cash transaction"
...which is sad. Before you try to earn, and cheat a system, shouldn't you at least go through the steps of learning how to convert cryptocurrency to cash? -- Many don't.
Some may say 'still not getting your point'...
PEOPLE ARE POSTING, RUNNING BOTS, AND GETTING REWARDS, YET THEY DON'T HOW TO POWER DOWN AND CONVERT THOSE REWARDS INTO RUPEES
...still not enough? I can't help you. :(
How does that hurt or help me or you?
Hungry people are doing whatever they can to earn as many STEEM and SBD as they can.. yet converting it to Bitcoin and selling that is something they save for "later"... and hope they can do it.
So it's just weird.
They try to earn as much STEEM and SBD as they can, but out of 100% of them, maybe only 5% have ever sold cryptocurrency for fiat before. That's the point.
P.S. I sent this person who was talking to me on discord $20 USD worth of bitshares, so he could buy 10 chickens, for free... so I'm not as bad of a person that you think I might be. :)
I'm not native in English either, but I've never had a single thought of milking the system by plagiarism, copy/paste content.
Sure, I might be better in English than some of these people, and I might have better options to improve it, but I've always tried to do things in an honest way. I'm trying to earn by legitimate means.
I have donated Steem to individuals too, as they shared a SOB story, and I have no idea if it was true or not. But, I figured that if I could give someone 2 steem or whatever, and they could eat for a day, I'd be happy to do it. I'm glad to help.
That being said, many from these countries doesn't even try to earn in legit ways. Just look at all those crappy emails you get:
"Bank of this and that wants to give you $1.000.000"
I don't like the fact that people are milking Steem with plagiarized content. No matter how desperate they are, because I would never do it myself. But on the other hand, I come from a different culture, and a different situation, so I might see things different.
About a year ago, someone copied my content in an attempt to earn rewards on Steemit. They used my personal story about my father's death, in an attempt to earn. I took that very personally, and I felt that they stole rewards that were mine.
At that point, I couldn't care less if they did it to feed their families or not. It's one thing to share your own content, no matter your writing skills, and it's another thing to steal. They are thieves and I don't want us to allow them to steal.
I agree on your point. Just have a look in some categories like photography, a lot of low quality posts with next-to-nothing value to the reader are there. Also, I have seen lots of people asking for votes and STEEM without sweating a thing.
I've seen plenty of people trying to milk cents out of Steem and I have no idea if they know what to do with it. Mind you, I've seen some of them powering down. From the start I could see that this platform had great potential for those in poorer areas to earn something, but it should still be by legitimate means. So far the level of spam has been fairly low, but if millions more suddenly sign up that could all change. There are various groups trying to deal with abuse, but we may need something more in future if Steem is not going to go to shit.
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I've never really thought that this--that convert cannot their earning. I think the very first thing i was concerned about when I joined steem was the usability of the crypto. As a Nigerian I am very sensitive when it comes to issues relating to money making on the Internet. The first exchange I used was airhawk exchange and when I got my $5 credited to my account I knew it was real.