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RE: Is Steemit Biased to Older Users?
I see the point but I think the approach is wrong. Rep is something that takes long to build and high rep does not equal to high payouts.
This is no automatical money generator for good content creators either, but requires more work :)
Definitely, I agree with this. I really just wanted to do this to see if there was a relationship between time and level, no matter what/how often the user posts.
I understand that Steemit takes time :) I'm not complaining about that either, that's a good aspect of the site! I just hope people have the possibility to catch up... The one thing that I do believe came of this research is that I believe it is impossible for new users to ever catch up to the top whales (unless they stop posting). But I guess that was just luck :)
One thing all new users should remember, rep isn't the (only) thing we are building here, there are more than one whale with rep lower than I have and rep isn't directly correlated to either popularity or SP :)
So the important thing for everybody is to enjoy and reach out to others.
It's not the only thing but it's one of the major things. Although the people who got up would like to think that it's purely their talent it's not really the case. Time plays an important role too.
I agree with you :) But as Readallaboutit said, people vote and follow the whales causing them to grow more... There is no reason to support low level/low power users, because voting on them doesn't bring anything to the voter. The powerful grow more powerful, while the less powerful will never grow to the same level unless they get either lucky, or actually provide great content that people want.
The whales don't need to provide quality content, new users do :)
That's true and big, popular users get a lot of high payout upvotes even with bad posts. I'm just boring and wanted to point out that rep isn't the best way to present this :D
I'd maybe try looking into payouts per time being a member.. but it won't tell anything about post quality either, as someone might say "If you are here longer, you always post better" even though we know it's not true.
Haha, no problem at all! Constructive criticism is always welcome! I agree that it is by no means a perfect way to look at this... I just couldn't think of a better way when I thought about it :)
So for example, look into the five most recent post payouts by a user, average those five payouts, and plot it compared to time as a member? Maybe that can be my next investigation!
I would love to use more data too, but I have to collect it all myself and it takes ages... Would be nice if there was a spreadsheet somewhere!