Then, I think I'll try an experiment to rally all whales into one post of mine: which will create dialog regarding supporting good and undervalued content creators.
The whales can select the people they'll support for a week and then change the people after that period ends.
Discussions can take place in that post until forever as to who'll support whom, why etc.
This can go on until the majority of quality minnows have established themselves in the platform.
What do you think?
I'm expecting it to be a huge flop so I'm not disappointed later on.
I do believe there are efforts underway to do exactly this.
Somewhere in the 40s of rep, IIRC, there seems to be some upvote love thrown at promising accounts, I suspect to encourage them to stick around. Only about 10% of accounts remain active after a year on Steemit.
I've seen this backfire, as people see a couple posts with significant rewards, and think 'I've made it!', quit their job, and try to make a living off posting on Steemit. When the support moves on to the next account, they discover they acted prematurely to live off their Steemit earnings.
Sad.
For this reason, I don't support the idea. Folks find the sudden withdrawal of support devastating. I was bemused by it, but came to terms with it when I realized the reason for it.
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