A Poetic Public Service Announcement
To all of the budding Steemians out there and all of the veteran users who should know better...
(The poem will come after this...)
Here's a friendly word of advice, because I care:
Your daily circle-jerk posts about how awesome Steemit is and "how to" write a post/leave a comment/follow somebody/upvote your cheer-leading nonsense is getting old and it in no way "adds value" to Steemit or the Steem blockchain. We all know what these posts are...
A naked money grab.
At least have the decency to admit this to yourself, even if you outwardly pretend to be "contributing" to the platform.
And to the people constantly upvoting this crap to the trending page:
Have you no shame? Or are you just that lazy/useless as a "curator?" Do you honestly believe that anyone looking at this stuff from the outside thinks, "Wow! I'm going to invest thousands of dollars into STEEM because there's a $2000 post on Steemit's trending page about how to write a post on Steemit!"
Seriously...when will you be content with the hundreds/thousands of posts already out there that tell people how to complete rudimentary tasks on the platform? When will you be content with the hundreds/thousands of posts talking about how great everything is here and that are only written because there's a very good chance of earning easy rewards for them? And for that matter, where are the votes for the very thoughtful criticisms of the platform? For the posts that highlight some of the glaring shortcomings of Steem/Steemit that actually deserve a lot of attention and possible resolution?
You're doing nobody here any favors by jerking these circles day-in and day-out. It's just a black hole of rewards that add zero useful substance and attracts nothing but more of the same dull content by the same type of talent-less "authors."
Guides on how to use Steemit already exist. Refer new users to them. We don't need a top-trending post about Steemit every day, let alone multiple top-trending posts about Steemit every day.
And now some poetry for the users who just don't get it.
This is for old and new users alike. Please do your best to find the meaning in it:
vote-4-vote?
follow-4-follow?
jerk-4-jerk?
swallow-4-swallow?
And here's a bonus piece for anyone leaving the upvote me/follow me garbage on my posts:
If you spam me,
I won't spam you.
I'll just take your rep
To a negative two.
This has been a public service announcement by @ats-david.
It's about time we stop the BS. How about giving it a try for once? Perhaps for a week? Maybe we can try a new "experiment" - only this time, we can make sure it's not being conducted by a shameless hypocrite.
What do you say, "community?"
Follow me: @ats-david
Logged into my other account to up vote twice.
Good comment. Hey Steemit. I'm gonna up vote this comment ^ 100%. Cool?
Thanks @mynameisbrian
You're welcome. I like your stuff. Almost as much as @ats-david's photos. Up voting 100%
Yea. His photos are great. Like an 8 year old took them. Up vote me?
Of course. The code allows it so nobody cares!
But just because the code allows it, should we abuse it?
Up vote me again?
Apparently we should.
So I should put my post on how great Steem Park will be on hold?
Maybe you should at least wait until the final product is revealed.
I am also sick of this trend, only a few people are coming to the trending page everyday and most of the times, 2 to 3 posts from the same person are hanging around in the trending and hot page, i mean steemit is becoming a joke with this kind of the stuff, we need a solution for this so that hard working newbies also get some rewards and they don't just quit the platform altogather @ats-david
just my thought: good point but they have built their reputation over time and cause of that some/not all gets auto votes not sure by whom and by how many, I am just guessing and with that, they make it to trending..if only the votes can be lowered down and some will be used for manually curating instead of bots then other may continue to benefit, like us the minnows....but i don't know this is just my opinion as a minnow :)
The best ones are the ones about how to get more followers by people who have less than 100 people following them and don't forget the posts about how to write a "quality" post which one can only presume are designed to show people what not to do.
Yeah, both of those sound pretty accurate.
And that therein is the problem. These posts make $200, $400 so other people make them for the money grab.
All while posts dropping knowledge on topics like personal finances or personal health make $30-$50. Thus people are motivated to post the former as in the end money is the driving factor.
Self fulfilling prophecy I suppose, but it is a shame.
Therein lies the problem.
A large part of the problem lies in people being more concerned about finding the "formula" for a profitable post than just creating quality content (of many kinds) and allowing that to become profitable. So we end up with a song of one note... which will (sadly) lead us in the direction of video stores in their early days... EVERYone wanted to open a video store because they were "hot," but ultimately, not that many people actually needed videos... so there was a wave of bankruptcies.
Human greed. It's what's for dinner... even here.
The more pressing problem is that it's short sighted. It's a form of "killing the goose that's laying golden eggs." Get rich now, and to hell with the future. If you forget the short term approach for a bit... what do we want? A place where we can still publish and get rewarded, 5, 8, 10 years from now? If that's the case, better start publishing things that'll be appealing in the long run... and will cause a random web surfer five years from now to look at our content and think "Wow! That's a GREAT community with awesome content! I want to be part of that!"
I just loved this. Amazing how you put everything I had in mind in a direct and clear way. I have been here for a month, and have been posting critical post and thing that need improvement, then people come and say "aren't you grateful, who pays you on the internet, it is paradise here" kinda comments. Now I don't ferl bad about those post.
Your poem was hilarious :) "swallow for swallow" lol.
You are right on point. Let's do this.
I have written one thing on SteemIt Tips because I thought it may earn money. It did earn some, just as much if not more than some of my other post on other topics such as sleep apnea or crypto being used in the business world.
It is obvious that a lot of other post on other topics don't do nearly as well, and until they start doing better we probably will see a lot of post on SteemIt Tips!
You know, @ats-david, you probably won't see this - it will be buried under all the positive responses you received on this post, but I just want to say that I admire your straight-forward manner and honesty. That's really why I began following you. Regretfully, I missed this post - it's now 3 days old, but I'm glad you got so much encouragement.
What bothers me is people spamming their books or their posts and being rewarded for it. I mean, when I put my novel on Amazon, I was contacted by marketing firms to represent it, and I couldn't come up with that money. I can't imagine somebody being able to shamelessly market their wares on here and get handsomely rewarded for it as well.
Thank you for your sane voice.
LOL, swallow for swallow hahahaha
Not negative 2 . . . lulzzzzzz . . .
Being still new here, I want to write thoughtful and creative content. But the Steemit posts huh?? Is that what is rewarded the most? It looks that way a lot of the time. Not ALL of the time . . . but enough for me to notice.
I personally enjoy reading different types of content. I don't mind a relevant post about the platform. But yea, the posts can get a little redundant.
I honestly can't stop laughing. The post I commented on earlier was so zen like, the one I have in the browser with the beach, also zen, I have this image of you listening to mozart as you wrote them (or maybe some eddie vedder into the wild) then someone said something...Holes maybe? EXPLOSION.
I bet your next post will be a nice waterfall....field of wildflowers perhaps? Hahahaha!
Well...after today's post about my contests, I think a nature post is a pretty safe bet!
I followed the link here from @dreemit's post. Thank you @dreemit! This made me chuckle, nicely written.
lmao at the spam4spam comments. THEYRE GONNA KILL IT BRAAAAAAAA, I mean obviously?