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RE: The Asian Steem scheme! Thank you @ned and @abit for rewarding and delegating your SP to empower the Asians to line their pockets even more!
This kind of thing doesn't look good and supporting it from the top just makes it look bad.
This is also why I stopped up-voting my own posts - it sets a terrible example and disincentives the people who are just starting out.
It makes Steem and Steemit look like an insider scam.
Maybe I'm crazy but I think we should be trying to look whiter than white to attract new people in and fight against the pre-existing scam accusations.
This just acts as confirmation.
It is truly sad. I think we all need to step back and look at what we are doing and how it might look to an outsider.
Perhaps I'm an idiot but I believe that integrity is worth a lot more than money. Once it is gone it is very hard to get back.
You're right. But for example for steemians like me upvoting my post (it's 60 cents) sometimes is the only way to get at least a tiny reward. I don't use bots, most of my posts are 2-3$ at reward pool, and not that I pretend on high rewards, but it seemed to me much more fair at the beginning, while all content was less or more same level (no one yet thought about stealing and spamming), and the rewards were also more or less equable, really depending on the content quality. It's really frustrating when you try to do your best as hard as you can and with no result at all or only with a tiny one
Wise words. I agree and it's not just about doing the right thing it's about being seen to be doing the right thing. You are seeing the bigger picture and that's never stupid.
You're absolutely right and I'm kind of disappointed to see the people who are suppose to be lead figures for us , are acting in such a manor , then what's left to the rest of the community ? This is unjust
Not just upvoting their own posts , they all seem to stick together with one another and never upvote anyone's comment and expect us to keep upvoting them because they are "so popular" that's just disgusting to me
I agree with you :)
sama saya !!
Iya mamma :)
This deserves recognition.
This is mind-blowing.
I think you've touched on the answer a bit actually.
In a relatively free market such as this (it's not completely free right now, but you get my point), it's up to us all as a group to simply stop upvoting the crappy people altogether.
By spreading this message, we may actually stand a chance of stopping these shenanigans and putting an end to the insiders' victory circle that's ruining the reward system here.
@thecryptofiend
I totally agree with you on "this looks bad and that it sets a terrible example to the ones who are starting out"
You're not an idiot to believe that integrity very very important! I hope they soon realize that this is pretty discouraging and hopefully it doesn't go on.
I finally got a few of my friends in and those are actually investors but with this kind of trend - I don't think it would encourage them to let even a cent out and buy Steem . I miss the old days back when its the post that matters, the effort given to it, the value, the interaction and contribution the author gave the platform regardless of race, colors and languages. I hope this gets turned around.
I'm just glad I reduced my stake in Steem. I did it in order to trade with a view to getting my stake up to at least 200,000 SP. Not sure I want to do that anymore with these kind of shenanigans going on.
That's sad! .. if those who invested aren't getting appreciated I won't be surprise if they all do the same but it won't be good for all of us. I do hope this gets turned around. Perhaps the next fork would fix it?
A fork isn't required to fix shady behaviour:)
That whole idea to get into Chinese/Korean market by upvoting/promoting some bloggers from these area is a complete bullshit. Some group of pampered, wine and dined (and paid for expensive traveling around the world while buying designer cats) users will have zero marketing effect on billions of Chinese and Koreans, even in crypto or blogging environment.
As usual, the old loyal Steemians are ignored and unappreciated while some undeserving opportunists from certain geographical area are glorified.
It seems that this platform, despite being anarcho-capitalist haven (greedy capitalists pseudoanarchists), it has also become xenophobic.
Financially discriminating and glorifying certain nationalities over others is nothing more but form of nasty discrimination.
I guess you don't mean the circlejerk tag or the makeup tutorials?