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RE: DON'T LET GREED DESTROY STEEMIT
I hate how many good quality posts go unnoticed. I have in my opinion a few very high quality and time consuming posts, some around 3000 words that received only a few cents worth of up votes apart from my own. This makes it very discouraging! This is why I'm trying to lease 10000 SP to make myself and others in my position for noticed!
Steemit is just like any other social media platform in the sense that you need to build a following before you are able to make any real money. A new user can write the best piece of content ever written, but no one will see it if they don't put their name out there and make sure people are able to find it.
It's at least 50/50 engagement to new content. New users need to be closer to 90/10 for engagement to new content. Then you still need to write well, and you have to have expertise in an area that people find valuable. None of that matters though if a person with high SP wants to support you. That's the voluntary charity side of this place, and I like that part of it.
Yeah, you are absolutely right. There are lots of users here who write a few posts but never bother to interact with the community, then ends up complaining and calling Steem(it) a scam because they didn't make any money.
Getting support from a whale can be really amazing here! I remember getting some awesome votes from one of the most well-known whales back when I published my 2nd post or so, and that was definitely a factor that lead to me investing to much time and energy to the blockchain.
I say that is fair enough. GOOD quality content needs to dominate Steemit. Steemit should not be know for paying 100 SBD + for nonsense.
Yes, that how it should be.
But the reality is that some early adaptors can claim a portion of the reward pool. The reward pool doesn't care that the content is nonsense or that their's only one vote.
This is absolutely true. At times we are seeing very bad posts get $500+ rewards just because it is made by an author who is backed by a whale or two, which can be pretty discouraging for new users who check out the site.
^^this exactly. I'll see a post, literally just like a link to a 5 minute video on youtube, with a small caption under it, and it's made like $300 plus. I don't get it. So I tried to in fact mimic that behavior: post a link to a video (someone else's video) and write a couple sentences--actually worked somewhat better than I expected--I think I got a couple votes lol. Anyway, yes, it's discouraging. I understand the whale-power aspect, but, something seems a bit outta whack. Then again, the system is still relatively new ("beta," right??), and I'm enjoying it enough to hang out for a bit and see what happens :)
It's also worth keeping in mind that even though a post has $500+ rewards, and is seemingly bad, the author might have produced hundreds of quality posts in the past, and be a respected member of the community. Not all trending posts are bad or low-effort at all.
Good point.
that is absolutely right sir,, and probably lead to early quiting in the flatform
Yeah, I am afraid that it does. It would be a lot better if new users could see for themselves that hard work does pay off in the end.
precisely for sake of fairness
I've seen single bible verse posts, with no other effort or content, rewarded with 20 dollar upvotes by an orca. This isn't just a whale issue. I've upvoted friend's replies simply to raise their reputation a bit when they are brand new. Someone is going to prevent me from doing that? If a whale wants to support an individual, they should be allowed to do it.
Abusing the system does ruin people's reputations already too. There are people and sites that track self-upvoting abusers as one example. We still should not try to control how people spend their voting power however. The lady posting the bible verse has a friend who has a lot of money in their account. It is a form of welfare and voluntary charity in that regard.
Value is subjective anyway. Who's going to decide? That's one of the beautiful things about Steemit.com. Each individual gets to decide what is valuable to them or not. It is a "free market" in that sense. We won't all agree on what is good content. There's no way to fix that issue, and it shouldn't be fixed. It is working as intended.
Yes, there are abusers, and their always will be. We should definitely keep creating initiatives to clean this place up like @spaminator, @steemcleaners, @cheetah, etc. too. Discussing this issue as you have done here also helps. Thanks!
I concur with you @crytoeater
Great.
I think it's a popularity contest that can only be won with consitency.
So true :( how can we fix this?