How do people feel about those who are gaming Steemit?
Steemit has great potential but how can it work if groups of people are gaming it. I just found a site where people are paying others to resteem or upvote. I see Facebook groups where circles of people are resteeming and upvoting each other. Where will it all end?
Should we not as a community be getting rid of these people or at least working on ways to stop the way they are ruining the rise of good content to the top?
What do you think?
What else is going on that I do not even know about?
Or is this all OK?
Michael
Are you complaining that they're doing what you've been trying to do for years but can't? You're all about gaming the system. The easiest example to look at is your Twitter account, all bought and f4f, pretty much the same thing. What we should be doing is getting rid of scammers like you.
I appreciate that people want to make money, but they should consider if they want Steemit to have a future and how this will affect their reputation in the long term. If it's full of low quality then it will die
I agree wholeheartedly with you, @steevc. Ofcourse we all want to make money and find good ways of doing so, but what these people are doing is short-term thinking. I'd rather have a bit less Steem, but an overall higher value, than swim in Steem while its value is going down the drain.
These people are not just trying to make money they use these circles and these sites where people pay each other to block content and to do character assassination as well. Needs to be some kind of wall of shame for people who are cheating system
Some people name and shame them when they manage to find bad account. I guess most people don't do that a lot though, because it risks their own reputation to get ruined. We'd need an anonymous place and council for something like this.
There are definetly some flaws in the design of steemit but we need to remember its still an emerging concept and hopefully these sorts of things will be quashed one day. my theory is the old adage if you cant beat em' join em.
I feel as long as your posting quality content you'll still be able to make an impression its probably just going to take longer.
just remember to do you and forget about what others are doing. when you focus on you and what youre doing youll make progress. other peoples shit just distracts you from yo goals.
good luck
The problem is that by definition Steemit has monetized quality content. The catch is that no matter how good the content is, if nobody upvotes it, it doesn't earn the author a single cent. This is why so many people are resorting to offering an incentive on top of the curation reward, to attract upvotes to their content. What the whales assume however, is that they deserve to make hundreds of dollars per post just because they have a large Steem Power balance. That balance however, has nothing to do with the quality of the content being put out. Jeff Berwick made a fortune within days of joining Steemit, because he had an existing ready made follower base who valued his content. For others starting out however it's not that easy. Perhaps we should cut the minnows some slack. If their content is good they will get whale upvote, otherwise they will get pennies. That is the fact of this ecosystem, and it ain't going to change any time soon.
All that Michael is whining about here is that he's not one of the people gaming the system, yet. He has a long history of doing this everywhere else with phony accounts, follow-4-follow, tweet-for-tweet, etc. And he's just posturing to justify doing it himself soon. Watch... it will happen soon.
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