For Yourself, Or Pay Someone To Vote For You
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Which will you do?
During the discussion
- The reason I think it's a bad thing is that it reduces Steemit to nothing more than finance, or at least directs the rewards to tricks and gimmicks, rather than well written insights.
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You have at least had a look at the white paper, and may be familiar with the direct statements of the devs that such is a threat to Steemit.
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Such shenanigans reduce the payouts you receive for your excellent writing, for example. There is a pool of fresh Steem minted each day, and payouts are divvied up out of it. The more that is delivered to scams, manipulations, and the like, the less available for content creators.
- I have to agree with you thoughts here, but I don't like that it comes down to systems manipulation.
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It seems that so much of the reward pool is taken by clique-voting, and that another big chunk of it is taken in the schemes that you talk about.
- I don't have agree with bots having the power to vote. Bots voting diminishes quality control, especially paid bot votes. I don't mind bots that are for functional reason as long as they cannot vote.
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Self-voting is an iffy one. My votes are only worth like $0.03 and if I put heart into a post, I sure as heck am going to upvote myself especially when my posts earn like $0.012 total and I see posts are very questionable quality often a single paragraph voted at $20.00 and over.
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I do agree it is annoying when people come to your article and don't up vote and just leave a comment and then upvote their own comments. While I can understand someone upvoting their own article that they put time into, upvoting a few sentence comment seems like a skeezy way to earn money with minimal effort.
- I kind of think like you do. Best to voice it now.. and well I am developing my skills in different areas I can use out of Steemit. So it works out well, however if no one sees my post it is very disheartening. It is like why did I put it in here if no one is going to read it.
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Then I can go to a post making fair amount of steem money..not whale money but good money, hope you are still with me. Here is the punch line: I look and they got all kinds of votes and made money but few views. What is that about? No one saw theirs either. I am confused.
I'm confused too. In fact I've just about decided that it's above my paygrade, but I have some thoughts. The Devs went to great lengths attempting to limit one account per person. It didn't work out but at what cost? Did those who have multiple accounts get them for free or was there some (great) cost involved?
The whales are whales for a rea$son. They shelled out BIG bux to get all of that SteemPower.
$$$ is the thing. Whales (investors?) buying IN to Steemit made the price go UP. If not for people buying Steem the price would be low. It's that old Supply and Demand thing. Repeat...when someone buys IN...the price goes UP. Doesn't that help each and everyone of us? When people invest tens or hundreds of THOUSANDS of dollars...shouldn't they be allowed a return on their investment?
As for 'bots ..
Destroy all Bots
oh...er....moving on...
One more thang.
If the Devs wanted to eliminate Self Voting it wouldn't be hard. A tweak of the code would be all that's needed to prevent an account for voting for itself...either for a post or for a comment.
The way I see it I got a good thing going here. I'm making money (not a lot, but a little) that I wasn't making before I found Steemit. I'm not sure why I should care if other people have found a way to make more, or to put it another way.
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