Some changes of how I steem until the next hardfork

sharonomics (61) · 7 years ago

What do you think about generic comments, made without reading the article? They are very common and nothing less than spam I would say. I see some authors do flag them. What's your take, flag them or ignore them?

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acidyo (80) · 7 years ago

I often flag them as sometimes my stake can take down their reputation by a lot, but when I do have time to check their comment history and if they have been way too spammy then I do flag them with a small percentage as well. They need to learn how to behave.

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sharonomics (61) · 7 years ago (edited)

Generic comments is the major problem I am facing here. I do upvote generously if a comment furthers the conversation. But unfortunately very few are worth it. But I never flag anyone. I just ignore them. And actually that has indeed helped rehabilitate some of the so called spammers, who have reached out to me to help them improve their activities on the platform.

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reidlist (56) · 7 years ago

There seems to be a lot of generic gifs that relate to some general concept, like food. Then people will post that gif on every single post that has anything to do with food.

littlejoeward (54) · 7 years ago

I usually flag them and write them a comment saying why I did and if they comment back apologizing I will upvote their apology but leave the flag. I think the flag (downvote) is way under-utilized right now because everyone's afraid of it. But it is an import part of helping to distribute the reward pool effectively and self-governing ourselves.

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josediccus (75) · 7 years ago

Sometimes its ignorance that's why I think users who are new should be put on tutorial mode, do as to be able to learn a lot, well some other times it depends on the individuals who are natural spammers

My take is let's orientate them first, then crucify them when they refuse to adhere,

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tiffanyrej (52) · 7 years ago

That really depends on the Author. There are fast readers out there. Some people don't have all time to read such long articles but some just enjoy browsing picture like browsing the internet.

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aleksandraz (61) · 7 years ago

I wouldn't flag such comments.. First of all, how one should know was this general comment made with or without reading the article? Maybe a person just has no personal opinion on a certain post, for example. I have some authors who I know from loong time ago an Steemit who write on some scientific stuff which is quite hard to understand. At the same time I don't vote on posts I don't read [except a very few authors I upvote automatically from a long time ago]. So I read a scientific post, understand not so much, but to support an author I upvote a post and leave some kind of a generic comment.

Or another situation. As I have not so many comments under my posts - I always read them and then check the profile of the author. If there's a post at least to some extent worth voting, I vote for it and usually leave a comment. And sometimes it's hard to leave a specific comment because the article itself was kind of not so thought-provoking.

Just my thoughts, your comment was provoking. :D

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littlejoeward (54) · 7 years ago

I think a pointless comment saying you liked it or whatever is usually better left unsaid with just an upvote. Unless maybe it's an article that doesn't have any comments yet, everyone appreciates a comment. Though usually I get excited that someone commented and then I see that it is just something like "nice post!" or "Thanks for sharing" or something pointless and I am just annoyed. haha. I always try to add something to the discussion or just leave it at an upvote

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aleksandraz (61) · 7 years ago

Okay, not so generic comments :D :D I leave such comments only as a reply on generic comments to my posts. 😕
Otherwise I also try to add to the discussion.
It's difficult though to add something to breathtaking photos, still. 😊 No words will help.

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rosebarbieumoh (37) · 7 years ago

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rahemanali (56) · 7 years ago

There you go :D

Talk of the devil and the devils shows up LOL

@rosebarbieumoh my dear, did you even read the article and the comment that you responded to? Please do read it, and then you'll know what your comment actually means.

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acidyo (80) · 7 years ago

I bet there is also a big language barrier as Steem is spreading among the whole world, people try their luck with something they have translated to attempt to earn a few $ and hoping the author didn't read the comment properly or there just aren't enough curators in their own language.

I'm sure it's something that will improve over time, though.

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sharonomics (61) · 7 years ago

@acidyo you are right on the money. I think that's a major problem when i read a post that does not bring out any sense in the use of language. It is because its somebody whose mother tongue is not English and Google translation just messes it up.

jawad09 (65) · 7 years ago (edited)

Dear @acidyo although your post is too lengthy but once I started believe me I finished it in 20 mins (As I'm not native Englishman) after that I came to comment section and here I found some discussion on flags. I do agree that there is a big problem of Language Barrier. People from backward areas can't understand latest things yet. So it should b a lenient hand on them. But if someone is habitual then its upto authors and they should decide what to do.

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chireerocks (72) · 7 years ago

True, Steemit is growing rapidly and also the promotion of Steemit is going on YouTube, Facebook and references, so the new user registration rate is increasing, but people who don't know English at all they can face some initial problems.

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littlejoeward (54) · 7 years ago

I've been wondering that same thing. How can we self govern when we can't all understand each other. What if a huge spammer comes in only speaking chinese? It would be difficult for any non-chinese people to shut it down... Maybe steemit should be english only and there should just be other forks for different languages like golos. I'm thinking maybe SMT's could solve this problem too.

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sharonomics (61) · 7 years ago (edited)

Hey @rahemanali I am upvoting you for a very relevant comment that "furthers the conversation" with a witty comment. But I am also upvoting @rosebarbleumoh, not to encourage her spam, but since she is new here and deserves a chance to realize that a self-serving generic comment like her's is a spam that she should be staying away from in the future. I believe not in castigating, but rehabilitating the wrong-doer. If I can use my influence to reward a good author, I can also use it to incentivize future good behavior.
Cheers :)

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rahemanali (56) · 7 years ago (edited)

Well, thanks for upvoting my comment and I see your point in giving this new Steemian a chance. :D

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littlejoeward (54) · 7 years ago

I think a better solution might be to tell them why you flagged and then if they apologize, upvote their apology. I don't think you should upvote their spam comment to "rehabilitate" her. You rehabilitate by rewarding good and not rewarding bad. They won't learn that self-serving generic comments are bad if they get upvoted for it.

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sharonomics (61) · 7 years ago

@rosebaarbiemoh dear you are new here and may not be well versed the unwritten code of conduct. My vote is not support the violate of the code of conduct, but just to give you another chance to do better in the future. @adasq, please read my reply to @rahemeanali's comment why I gave @rosebarbieumoh a small upvote. It was not to negate your downvote, but to just give her a chance. My apologies if you feel otherwise.

rosebarbieumoh (37) · 7 years ago

Thank you so much Sir @sharonomics, I've learnt my lessons.

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valth (68) · 7 years ago

Haha, just as ordered!

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lynncoyle1 (63) · 7 years ago

I just joined steemit in mid-December and have been spending a lot of time reading others posts just to try and figure this whole thing out. I can totally understand your comment, "There's a lot of people who are not aware of all the work some Steemians do outside the platform and around it and they don't receive a lot of rewards for their contributions unless they are posting at the same time." I have wondered about this several times, thinking that there has to be a lot going on behind the scene. Also, I found you @acidyo because I stumbled across @OCD and am beyond thankful for people like you who are concerned with the greater good. You deserve the same or more "rewards" for all that you do inside or outside the platform. And finally, perusing your blog, your work is certainly not mediocre! Thanks for all you do!

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pkvlogs (65) · 7 years ago

For me you are included in good whales who never try to become greedy as many others do .
You keep doing this great work buddy so that every good content creator can feel positivity .

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beauknows (58) · 7 years ago

@acidyo your efforts are appreciated and you make some great points. Curation is one of the underappreciated (and under-rewarded) activities here. I personally think it should be policy here that self-upvotes can't be made until at least 15 minutes after a post has been made. Or if an author self-upvotes a post, it could be delayed, etc.

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generation (55) · 7 years ago (edited)

@acidyo, you are truly a beast bro! You are one of the most solid members in the Steemit community, hands down. Manually curating, reading every post and thinking about the greater good of the platform rather then your self is a rare quality in this world, let alone the Steemit platform. You have a huge heart and I am always glad to see people like you. Keep up the good work and I hope you continue to inspire others to follow your path and logic.

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josediccus (75) · 7 years ago

Well like you said, self upvoting by some authors after a few minutes of posts maximizes their reward.

I think its a personal things most people who their upvotes worth like $70 always upvote their post, because they came for the money, on the other hand, some people like to feel the community has to be considered, as much as this message is being preached it all boils down to these individuals and their mindset which I hope one day, they can change

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snrm (57) · 7 years ago

When you said that some users use an "auto-vote" instead of manual vote when they get bigger, what do you mean by this? Some whales have something where it is automatically voting on different posts that will give them a big curation reward bonus?

And since there is obviously a huge benefit to the author for voting within the first 30 minutes of their own post (I didn't know this was a thing), do you think the "vote my post" checkbox should be removed when making posts? Just to at least not encourage it even though they could just go to their profile to do it anyway.

acidyo (80) · 7 years ago

There's sites like steemvoter and gosteem that offer automatic curation, you just set which authors you want to autovote on and at which time and it does it for you, often getting in front of the rest of the votes and receiving big curation rewards.

I think the box will be unchecked automatically after the next hardfork at least.

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snrm (57) · 7 years ago

Ah okay that makes sense to me. Its definitely so cool of you to have been doing this all manually, I had no idea other big users just automate.

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enzo3785 (43) · 7 years ago

I understand your point first engaging others and then take care of yourself. In the end I think you are going to succeed with this strategy. As you are an early adopter, you still have a massive fan-base. But for the newcomers I would suggest to almost try delivering content rather than creating a bot, writing something for you.

I also more focused on commenting and voting up and are sure to be the best solution for ME .. for the long run.. and that's what's is all about.

SO..keep up commenting

skymath01 (45) · 7 years ago

Though I'm still a newbie but I could sense a good measure of originality in your posts and sincerity in your conducts as outlined in this post.
What matters most is to see others grow with you and I'm glad you are not deviating from that.
Thanks.

bashadow (65) · 7 years ago

There is nothing wrong with using the rules if that is what you want to do. We all make our own decisions in the end. Give a helping hand, or ask for a handout, it is upto the individual. No one controls our actions, and ultimately the only person you need to answer to is yourself.

artz (55) · 7 years ago (edited)

deleted, as I missclicked the reply to the @acidio's post

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mejustandrew (58) · 7 years ago

Some of them are comments, like the one above, but still this is a hudge number...

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bashadow (65) · 7 years ago

Not a problem at all. I figured as much. have a good day.

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deadspace (69) · 7 years ago

Bro, your content is not mediocre, you are being way too humble when you say that.

I think changing it so an early vote goes back to the reward pool is a step in the right direction I suppose, though that's going to be something that probably will take awhile for people to adapt to. Especially for minnows and small dolphins I would say. Wouldn't be surprised to see lots of people posting about it complaining, honestly, lol.

Also, how do you check how many manual votes you've done? I'm not on any voting trails, but I'd be curious to find out how many things I've upvoted on here thus far.

acidyo (80) · 7 years ago

Also, how do you check how many manual votes you've done?

Doubt you can differentiate them. All my votes have been manual but I've had my own trail of people following my votes.

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joshvel (60) · 7 years ago

How to be upvoted by you, sir? Thanks for your support to the minnows like me...

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leap8 (54) · 7 years ago

It's amazing how you've been here from the beginning building up steemit. Thank you for doing that! I joined fairly recently but with some help I'm getting there. It really helps when whales make some room for newbies to get some rewards. That makes a big difference between people leaving or staying when they're just starting out.

mountainjewel (68) · 7 years ago (edited)

I like your style acidyo and love your generous outlook. You’re one of those I follow who joined early who gives me hope about the steemit platform in the long run. Thanks for being you & for starting @ocd as it’s helped me a lot in my starting phase. Blessings

saad19 (50) · 7 years ago

You Right @mountainjewel
I like his style too

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dedicatedguy (74) · 7 years ago (edited)

Since supporting other users is necessary for the long term success of the platform, any change that helps curators achieve their proper reward will be a good change, at least in my opinion.

I suppose it must be very tempting for bigger users that always get huge upvotes on their posts, to simply upvote their own posts and earn authors and curators rewards, but by choosing to not do this those users can really prove their commitment with the well being of the platform.

Curators make huge contributions by finding great posts that aren’t very visibly, so they need to feel and be appreciated by everyone.

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tesaganewton (66) · 7 years ago

Yeah manual voting genuine and considerate though have seen alot doing away with it.

There's a lot of people who are not aware of all the work some Steemians do outside the platform and around it and they don't receive a lot of rewards for their contributions unless they are posting at the same time.

That's one thing that we need to look into, unless one posts it doesn't matter the work they are doing for the platform. And sometimes even when they post it goes unnoticed even when their work was massive. I suggest some projects to put to place to reward those that take a big step to a do alot of work, presentations an projects for our platform.
How we going to pull it off is another question though.

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jbn (60) · 7 years ago (edited)

Well i have been a true fan of yours since the beginning of my steemit journey.. and you just gave me the reason to like you even more.. this is what i am talking about. Steemit is all about engagement.. and many whales forget this when they are sitting on top.. you my friend have done brilliantly.. your @ocd curation initiative is the best.. i would humbly suggest that you should continue with that...

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grizgal (55) · 7 years ago

I admire the fact that you manually curate. Vote bots or auto citation of any kind is against the concept of steemit in my view. Steemit is supposed to promote the best content and reward both the writer and the curator. However, if you get big writers who get auto curated there is no filter, no decision to upvote or not. People are upvoting authors in the hope that others will do the same, giving them greater rewards. This then creates momentum where a writer could produce anything and it will still get hundreds of dollars in upvotes. The platform would be much better and fairer without any bots in my view!

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tony10 (56) · 7 years ago

Clearly what you are doing is making you a leader in steemit. I don't seen any issues with autovoting someone who you know always produces great content. I also agree with the change in the new hard fork to give the immediate self votes back to the pool. People respond to the incentives so they will either vote later which helps level the playing field or vote immediately which will help build the reward pool. It's a win win situation.

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anritco (69) · 7 years ago

I always admired the dedication you always put on this platform. Honestly I wouldn't get any far without your help as curator.

I think the next hard-fork is good for Steemit in order to make it better for these curators who spend a lot of time trying to get the good content more visible. They deserve a reward too and the actual one is not good enough.

Keep doing great Acid!

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leotrap (72) · 7 years ago

You said!

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whatsup (75) · 7 years ago

Hey Acidyo,

I also manually curate and read nearly everything I vote on. I usually find some smaller users and support them for a while. If they create excellent posts they soon start to build their own audience.
I have sometimes considered how much money I have left on the table to try to use the site as I would expect and end-user to use it. By reading, voting and interacting.
I am unsure how I will proceed, I'm hoping to "make" something out of all of this as well.

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exe8422 (66) · 7 years ago

I always found it great to be able to help others with my vote and I do it whenever I can, there are very good contents which is a pity that sometimes they do not receive only 1 vote

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infinitum (34) · 7 years ago (edited)

I am here to read excellent content, curate it, and make money.

If you are not here to do these things, then why waste your time?

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bornprince (52) · 7 years ago

You are right, i stand with you

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jawad09 (65) · 7 years ago

@ocd curation reward is one of the best on steemit. Most of the people who are at top don't bother this thing. But I'm truly happy that you're one of few seniors who are giving and want the betterment of the Community.
I too agree and they will definitely play positive role:
I am sure that SMT's will also play a huge role in that and I can't wait to see what they have to offer and all the unique ones people will come up with, some really exciting times ahead of us!
All the best Sir @acidyo and please carry on your excellent work

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dali.soh (50) · 7 years ago

I think that will be a very good improvement to the Steemit platform. Self-voting unless the comments or post is educational and informative. Now, with more hard forks coming up, it will be time before there will be mass adoption.

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aaaalmira (48) · 7 years ago

I vote and comment on your post because your post is very good and very interesting to read @acidyo

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aftabkhan10 (65) · 7 years ago

Even your critics would admire that.

@Acidyo is the best curator.

josephfugata (52) · 7 years ago

I hope @acidyo to host more contest for us to participate daily as it will encourage us to be more interactive knowing that @acidyo always look at his feed and doing manual vote so I think he can do that.

amat67 (44) · 7 years ago

Your post is very interesting & memorable in the world of steemit, I am very interested in your post, emang you are very smart. sorry i am not complimenting you, but this is reality. thank you @ amat67 please post from you. I love posting

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vincent848 (44) · 7 years ago

This post is interesting... I read most of it but not all... I m not too much of a reader... I believe it's not compulsory for someone to read your post b4 upvoting... Some may read d top and like it... Some may like the pictures. Some the topic... (smiles)

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badmusgreene (66) · 7 years ago

@acidyo.with great powers come great responsibilities,kudos to you and the few highly placed steemians who has given relevance to the phrase . I believe the next Hardfork will level the curative playing field reasonably.

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etuk (42) · 7 years ago

Thank you @acidyo for sharing this with us, because I've been wonder why the lower percentage is going to curators than authors, now I'm getting to understand this platform well

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iqbalrampago (45) · 7 years ago

Very helpful information @acidyo, a very great experience. After I read the post from you, I get more excited in writing. you is a very great man.

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biffybirdcam (65) · 7 years ago

I may have just started but I will be doing the same until the end of time (or Steemit). I manually curate because simply because I don't know how or care to set up a bot. I read the post's content and, via my experiences, knowledge and opinions form a comment worth reading. I like to engage.
Peace Brah.

Ill be doing it for however long it takes.

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awanawan (53) · 7 years ago

Helping for community

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wbayderda (31) · 7 years ago

your post is very good, very useful, your post is so inspiration for me and all users of steemit, I am proud of you .I am amazed to you, you are very fantastic in making a post, hopefully triumph in the work .. Thank you

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shahfahad096 (36) · 7 years ago

Its Amazing

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mindfreezer (44) · 7 years ago

As a newbie I think need help someone likes you For what we are going to grow up On steemit. @acidyo

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mikeycolon (63) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the update and for your hard work. Hopefully Steemit will one day see its full potential - as currently there are a lot of haters. Let's prove then wrong. ✊✊✊

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calatorulmiop (57) · 7 years ago

Changing how the curation for early voting works will be a bit strange if you think about it from the perspective of someone who finds a post that is 5 min old. You have to back after 10 min in order to vote on it just so your vote doesn't go to waste.

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dandesign86 (68) · 7 years ago

I think an interesting statistic would be if it was possible to show how many people you have managed to stay on the platform in the beginning when things are tough and you have to hustle
For each cent. I am one of those people and I am sure there are many many more. The value in keeping people on the platform is one of the highest in my opinions so I think you have done a fantastic job !

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mejustandrew (58) · 7 years ago

I really think that you are one of the major contributors here, that you keep in mind the good of Steem and you should not worry about making some posts to get some rewards too. People read your content and appreciate it for the work you have done and this is entirely different by posting "placeholders" and upvoting them. You are doing such a nice job for the whole community and I am sure that everybody appreciates it!

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granttrev (34) · 7 years ago

Thank you for your hard work and insight Sir, its outstanding!

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verasj (65) · 7 years ago

Wow...that truly need a lot of reading sir. How do you differentiate them all? I salute you for your hardwork. I've one more question...do you look to post that's in other languge beside English?

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peeyush (47) · 7 years ago

steam is the best platform bro , nice post

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artz (55) · 7 years ago

To this day I am at 44,615 manual votes, which means that I've read the majority of those posts before voting on them.

That is insane. That means 2125 posts per month or 70 posts per day read by you. Hard job you've done

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langford (54) · 7 years ago (edited)

It's a good work you are doing here on steemit @acidyo. I really admire your passion and will to improve steemit. A lot of us do things to contribute even outside the website. You are someone that encourages hardwork as you don't just auto upvote posts to get your curation rewards but take time out to go through them to see if they are really worth it. I really admire your principles which seems to be community first, you are very good example to all steemians.

And in no way are your contents mediocre in fact they are the far opposite of that. Thanks for your generosity, keep on with the good works you do here on steemit.

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ronel (61) · 7 years ago

I'm not aware if there's a tool to see the stats of those number of Steemit users who manually upvotes, who sell/buy upvotes or use autoupvotes. I love to see that. Then we could make some analysis on how to deal or study them. Would it be for long term and sustainability of Steemit or not? Are those upvote bots contain two side effects, personal profits and community deaths? A lot of questions to consider and we need to gather data, to maybe somehow save this community for good.

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bien (70) · 7 years ago

that was an awesome achievement bro, your hard works on reading creative article and vote the manually is not easy to do as an steemians,.

but you did it all just to curate steemians creative articles.

advance congratulations sir @acidyo for an upcoming achievement of number of votes.

almost 45,000 wow... hands up to your hard work sir.

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budz82 (54) · 7 years ago (edited)

Interesting post, you're one of the steemit OG's it seems (I wish I knew about steemit years ago... been on it for about 7 months if I am not mistaken and love it so far). I to only manually do upvotes and wish more people would do that as well (auto voting is kinda stupid in my opinion, but I do understand why people do it to get more rewards). Overall my main negative with Steemit is the automation a lot of users use, as I feel that a social platform should involve MANUAL WORK to truly thrive (people actually upvoting posts they like, people actually reading those posts, people actually taking the time to make a relevant and useful comment, and so on). Hopefully the automation on Steem will slowly die off over time, as again its one of the only negatives I have about the platform in general.

PS I love your little gif at the bottom of your post... LOL!

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steemfuture (53) · 7 years ago

Loved all your posts and also learned a lot from your post.
One thing i find is sometime the person i follow will become no followed is this normal.

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splendorhub (61) · 7 years ago

@acidyo Impressive all manually. With plenty new comers the undiscovered talent is on the rise :) Best wishes.

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livinguktaiwan (74) · 7 years ago

I upvote my own votes as like everyone else I want to increase the value of my posts. However, my post value would be zero had it not been for those who support and upvote me, so the least I can do is to help them to increase their curation rewards by voting much later than them

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tiffanyrej (52) · 7 years ago

I'm sure lots of changes will come this 2018. Let's be ready for it :)

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rbreauxfl (50) · 7 years ago (edited)

I like the things you post and thanks for doing what you've done for this community being im new I've learned some new things from this post. I'm also a manually posting person i do it thru new, my feed, or steem follower, I like knowing what I like. 😂I find that i comment more than i blog but that's cause I'm shy and trying to come out of my shell little by little so that's what works for me at the moment.

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bornprince (52) · 7 years ago

Great but one thing i fear is that they keep changing always, their rules are undefined!

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jesus1507 (38) · 7 years ago

I think the article is great because, we are all aware that starting in this type of task is difficult because you must make yourself known among other people and that you give advice or sacrifice your things to support others is respected

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haphazard-hstead (66) · 7 years ago

I can relate to your missing out on posting when you focused on building community by commenting so much. I had made it to the top 25 for total posts, almost all from commenting, according to Steemwhales. But then all the votebots showed up and zoomed up to the charts - and my enthusiasm for all that commenting dropped away, just like my ranking.

I upvote my own posts on the 5th or 6th day, to give people the most change to benefit from voting for my posts. My curation rewards seem like such a small fraction of what I get. And I like to encourage people to upvote my posts anytime they find them within the 6.5 days.

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hafiz34 (66) · 7 years ago

What ever the changes will come, hope that those will be best for this community. Definitely, it won't make everyone happy.

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fatherfaith (68) · 7 years ago (edited)

Wow, @acidyo are one of the most dedicated steemians I know. Manual vote consumes a lot of time but you still take pains to do it which means you read most of the vote as you said.
Thumb up 👍 for you boss

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yura81 (47) · 7 years ago

I upvored manually other content. I don't fear lost rewards

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rocksg (69) · 7 years ago

Auto voting will kill the importance of post and the efforts a writer has put in writing the post, the research he has done, the references he has collected , will go all in vain. If people won't read them how will they learn and grow. If the writer wants to spread a message, how will it reach to the audience if everybody starts auto-voting.

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arsenal49 (63) · 7 years ago

I think the platform needs a stronger incentive to vote and to find posts in the "new" section. If people want great curation rewards and find great posts in the "new" section they would have to find them, and then wait 30 minute to vote on them to gain maximum curation rewards. If the platform has to improve, I think we need a stronger incentive for voting on "new" posts.

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madushanka (74) · 7 years ago

Absolutely very informative points you showing to newbies how to use voting power and get curation rewards from genius authors. @ocd doing perfect task here in steemit platform. Actually manual curation using is most valuable I think as you told this blog. You giving me huge assistance in this platform. Something I have never know time, I've met you and then followed. I am learning yet and I'd like your @asksteemit hashtag posts. Thank you sir @adidyo.

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sokoloffa (69) · 7 years ago

Christmas night - incomparable:
Christ was born on earth!
Let it be a happy holiday, happy
let the star in the haze shine!
And liner with a ray of silver
fortunately-a destiny in your home,
hope and faith and everything better
let it be a shield in it!
Congratulations to Merry Christmas!

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yaan (59) · 7 years ago

Well, you're just saint... No self-comment voting, helping curators and other creators, contributing to the platform.
A little more and you will grow a pair of wings and fly.

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fitzgibbon (61) · 7 years ago (edited)

The way you are behaving on this platform, with engagement and human interaction, rewarding other for good content that genuilely like after reading it is the behavior we would like to see more.

If more people would do this, the community, the platform and the Steem token itself will become more valuable.

I only hope that as time passes, more people will start to realize this. Keep up the good work @acidyo!!

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halcyondaze (61) · 7 years ago

You and @saywha are lighting the way towards a more benevolent Steemit. Thanks for what you do boss.

~ Kevin

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katteasis (63) · 7 years ago

When is HF20 hitting?

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darthnightog (42) · 7 years ago

Exelent work,Sigan así saludos desde Venezuela.

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https://steemit.com/steemit/@mugsy7/what-if-75-25-profit-payouts-were-flipped

mugsy7 (46) · 7 years ago (edited)

You're doing good and users know it. I've only been on steemit for a week myself but it didn't take long to figure out the upvoting system favors self indulgence over proper curation. I'm not in any position to do anything about it but as you keep massing followers and building a reputation of being a white knight you may one day be able to have a bigger impact in the community should a working solution present itself.

I wrote a blog on a possible solution while it's not a golden gun i do suspect it would encourage more people to curate properly and try to curate new topics earlier being rewarded for beating others to a hot post. Whatever the solution one thing that needs to happen is that curation shouldn't feel like a donation as in currently it can feel like you have to pay money to curate properly and that goes against the values of the system.

My solution would see content creators only receiving 1/3rd of their current guaranteed rewards for curation however they would encourage users to properly curate more instead of serving themselves and upvoting their own spammed low quality content for maximum rewards. So in return content creators should see far more upvotes as people stop reserving them for personal use.

I also had a chat with @heimindanger from dtube today and he mentioned that he'd be interested to see something more like a 50/50% ratio on curation.

Right now steemit is definitely the equivilent of a pay to win game so something has to change to reward better content creators over wallet warriors.

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celestal (71) · 7 years ago

I think the self-voting change is welcome. It should be overall better for everyone to eliminate the choice for an author to make a moral choice to be greedy or generous.

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dawnsheree (58) · 7 years ago

I think that it's not a problem for you to upvote your own posts. You've been a great contributor to this community and you deserve every single cent of it.

Upvoting your own posts is not a problem. Yes, you'll earn more SBDs from it but you've also done your part by being a good curator. :)

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sevinwilson (65) · 7 years ago

What you have created in OCD is incredible! There are many great authors on the platform that often time go unnoticed, but these curators do a great job in finding the diamonds in the rough!

I think the comments of posts are one of the most important functions of this site! It allows other to expand upon the post and offer up advice/contradictions. I try to upvote as many of these on my posts as possible and I have always appreciated your willingness to do this! Since I have known you and I am 100% sure since before I joined the platform, you were encouraging users to add insightful comments to the posts of others!

There are many auto upvote bots on here, but it is nice seeing this blog post here already has 500 views and almost 100 comments after just 9 hours!

The engagement on here is what we help to allow Steemit to survive in the long term and compete with the social media giants of today!

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ghulammujtaba (59) · 7 years ago

That's wonderful, true commitment towards the community. This platform need more people like you. You have been playing CS lately, how it went?

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abh12345 (76) · 7 years ago

Honestly, I'd like to see you voting at 30 minutes or later.

You don't need the extra $ this will bring you, and I've liked that the most about your style.

Yes many big players stick a vote on submission and everyone has the right to do so, but making it clear in the past you've been allowing everyone in before your vote (which normally the biggest) was something against the norm.

I wait until 30 mins for my $9 vote as it is normally the biggest vote on my posts. If I voted at 1 minute I have a feeling I'd lose support, in the same was use of an early bot would.

Saying all this, you've done your fair share ff work, on and off platform to have the right to do whatever you wish with your vote, and am very appreciative of the support you've given me too.

Cheers

Asher

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news4u (44) · 7 years ago

congrats buddy for your hard work .You are one of those steemians who is famous on this platform
This work is again a unique work from you

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cryptorg (60) · 7 years ago

As a newbie on the platform (less than 1 month) I must say that I was kindly surprised by the power of comments compare to the ones of posts. While you post it might be hard to get your work to important people, through comments you can get involved and be there where the influences are. And once you provide personal insight and are true to what you are saying, I think that a trust is earned from both sides and a relation is settled between these parties. A vote is great in value, but if it has also a reply it just makes you happy knowing that your involvement count. Keep it real and just don't change!

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syedkashifhussai (62) · 7 years ago

Agreed with you sir....

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kartiksingh (65) · 7 years ago

Thanks for your generous work for steemit community. I like your work man and @ocd curation project is great contribution by you for the community.

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gentleshaid (70) · 7 years ago

I do not know how significant or insignificant this change will be on people with low SP but any change to increase fair distribution of rewards is always a good one for me.

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m31 (69) · 7 years ago

I think you have served this platform as good example and a lot more people should follow your lead. I respect your decisions and you are pretty much curation guru ^^ I have learned so much from you and OCD and therefore would like to say - Thank you!

I think no one should say anything about you sometimes being more selfish given what you have done so far.

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drskhan90 (46) · 7 years ago

Well couldn't understand few technical terms. Still struggling with understanding the steemit even in my 2nd week.
(1) I appreciate your sacrifice for the curators by not selfvoting. Lol my last post having one upvote only and that's me doing that noble job.
(2) votetrading is a black spot on the face of steemit. I don't know if I myself doing that or not as I have subscribed to steemvoter.
(3) I don't agree with you for not voting on comments. It's kind of depriving someone from their much needed rewards especially for tiny-mini-minnows like me.
That's all from my side. Rest I couldn't understand on reading once. Thanks @acidyo

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breezin (69) · 7 years ago

Honestly; I take my hat off to you. you are a pillar of strength in this platform.
There was a time when I refrained from up-voting my own posts: I figured that votes were better spent on showing my support towards my followers as well as the community/prospective new followers..., and then life happened and I was scraping together every penny I could
( This included own post voting as well as powering down :( )
But hopefully Steem and SD; will help me get back on track, so that I can start building up my account again...
And throughout this process, I gave the concept of voting for your own posts some thought, and it doesn't seem so bad anymore: I feel that if you vote for your own posts - you strengthen your own account - In turn increasing your voting power - of which you pay it forward again, by voting on community posts: So everyone wins: That is if your own posts are not the only posts you vote for! :)

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joe007 (52) · 7 years ago

I think it is important to support each other, so we need to start with our selves before looking into others, I agree that if you comment you need to read it, that is one of the main reasons for Steemit, is to show other people your interest and skills through writing and commenting - happy Steeming everybody

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ptrkshv (37) · 7 years ago

I signed up for Steemit last week and have already read a few of your posts that popped up on my timeline.

For a newbie like me, the information you're sharing is of tremendous value. I'm realizing how important it is for me to curate content through meaningful comments and adequate upvotes.

Thank you for this post!

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viajandocomgabi (39) · 7 years ago

i think i will follow your steps,pushing myself to create more quality content and gain followers

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