A Steem Worth Fighting For. Don't Let Them Take It
Ideally, Steem will either become a fully actualized co-op of people producing beautiful things, a tapestry of creative energy, or we will allow it to degrade into a glorified billboard, a series of paid ads, serving the highest bidder.
I came for the first... the second is on display far too often. I fear there is a strong rift present in this community. Many are working for something better, but it’s hard to watch the other dynamic writ so large
Same. Indeed it is. I think in part because of whales decision to start selling voting power. It opened a Pandora's box if you will.
There is definitely a rift. There are a people who believe in a vision of what Steem can be through hard working adding value to the blockchain. In the other hand, we have people seeking the most efficient low effort way to make money off the block chain without adding significant value. That kind are the ones we need to figure out how to weed out.
You say well what I’m seeing. The thing that really puzzles me is how those doing this cannot see that the more frustration they create through this sort of behavior, the more likely it is that those who are currently exercising their creativity to secure this Blockchain’s value are going to refocus their efforts elsewhere thereby reducing the value present here. If enough do so, this really does land in the mind of something that smells “Ponzi-esque” in that the only ones who benefit are the ones who milked it early leaving something behind that has no real “good” in it, because those who wanted to make it great departed disappointed. I’m not saying it will happen, but I can see it as a possibility if some sort of answers aren’t explored that can give some hope that when one places your creativity out there, someone might be able to even see it (let alone value it with an upvote) The issue keeps coming across to my thinking as one of “exposure” - how can one manage to cut through the clutter? I. Not sure, but I hope that means can be explored and discovered prior to a day when folks have grown exasperated and leave for “greener pastures.”
^ This guy gets it: https://steemit.com/fight4steem/@troglodactyl/is-steem-a-ponzi-scheme-repost-payout-declined
I hopped over to read your post. Thank you for posting it up. I’ve inky been on Steemit for two weeks and the fact that this community is split between these two user bases is one of the things that very quickly cemented for me. Appreciate you showing your work. Also thank you so much for your generous upvote.
I did have one idea but need a web dev to put it together. We just need to design a new front end and allow customizable filters. We can leave the bid botting crap posters in their own echo chamber. They will not be missed.
You get THAT set up and man I tell you... you’ve got one ready to early adopt right stinking now! I’ll be watching for anything you might get moving in that direction
I'm looking into it. Will let you know.
As a new user, I am dismayed at the number of reposted articles with no credit or simply a link to an article as a post. I spent hours on my first post last night and it was lost in a sea of spam.
Yeah, more people really need to start policing the platform and people should be more careful what they upvote. One issue is people have an incentive to vote not necessarily what is good but what will make them more money. Let's take a sub par post that you know just received a significant upvote bot bid vs a quality post using no bots that won't be noticed. The incentive for a curator is to vote on the former in this scenario. It's broke as hell.
I use my votes on content I think is really good. Not based on how much I suspect I'd get back for curation.
I think this is the right attitude for the long game but not sure if that is how the majority of others think. Most seemed focused on short term gain and do not think about the big picture. Yet these kind are the ones that often get ahead in the current economy of lSteem.
It almost leaves new users like you and even myself with the conundrum of either:
A) posts lost in obscurity OR
B) Use the bid bots in order to even have a prayer of rising briefly above the “noise floor” to be heard even briefly
The first breeds frustration within the creator
The second participates in perpetuating the system that is broken pretty badly.
Neither is a road that leads anywhere worth being and if Steem were to fail, it will have these two among other dynamics which paved the road to its own perdition. It really sucks... I’ve been right there with you. And the irony here is that on a system where the value was supposed to come through creating something that created value for others, the rewards are being gobbled by those who seem to be mostly concerned by their own self interests.
New users really have to get out and comment in existing discussions to build some reputation until they have their own audience. I only upvote things I actually read and don't use bots or delegation. I sometimes wade through the unfiltered "new posts" section trying to discover new talent, but I usually find that to be pretty inefficient. Much more often I find good stuff by spotting competent comments and digging into their authors.
What you say certainly coincides with what I’ve experienced thus far too. I cannot prove it, But I do get a sense that more people have come to peek at what I’m putting up based upon conversations I’ve joined on other people’s posts. I did notice a fair uptick in followers one of the times I used vote bots to pump the exposure of one of my posts, but I think largely it’s been more about trying to strike up a conversation and see what comes from that. And I too, often find (what I often term “stumble”) folks by scrolling comments and seeing folks I hope to converse with next. Speaking of which... nice to chat with you too... looking forward to more to come!
thank you for the information hopefully can be maintained.
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