Follow Friday - What are your favorite five follows this week?

phoenixwren (65) · 7 years ago

This is the kind of curation I appreciate. You tell us about the people and what they've been doing. I've been annoyed with a lot of "curation" posts of late that are just making money by making a list of links to crappy content that may or may not be related to a theme of the curation. When the posts are that bad, I wonder if the "curator" actually read it, or just has really low standards and doesn't care...

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helenoftroy (57) · 7 years ago

This is a great way to "meet" new people! Thanks for sharing what you know about them, so we don't have to go digging too far to find out.

I've been trying to keep up with your posts on plagiarized memes, the trending page, etc. but I feel like I probably missed a few. I noticed you were getting flagged for sarcastic posts ... so I was wondering if you ever wrote a "statement" about why you're doing what you're doing. Something we could reference when we run across posts that lump you with other, bad "memers" (is that even a word? It should be...)

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

I don't really have a statement I just do what I think is right. My ultimate goal is to make Steem better than when I got here. Other than that, I just take it day by day and do me.

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helenoftroy (57) · 7 years ago

I guess I have more specific questions, but I don't want to highjack this thread (sorry that I already did!) :) Maybe there will be another opportunity to ask on a more related post! Thanks for keeping on!

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

Fire away, this is as good as place as any.

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helenoftroy (57) · 7 years ago

Okay, here goes! :) Were you trying to make a point with the "not-meme" you posted that made the trending page? If so, what was the point and do you think it was successful? What would you say to those who saw it as a decline in your endeavors / a way to make a quick buck?

(Going back to find the link, I realize this is 2 weeks old already :S Maybe you already answered these questions elsewhere and I missed them, so sorry if they're repeats.)

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2 votes

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago (edited)

Were you trying to make a point with the "not-meme" you posted that made the trending page?

Yes, I was making a point.

The post consisted of four images:

A meme posted by a dmania user
Dmania upvote for $55.14
Post pending payout of $69.37 w/ 86 votes
Google search results showing it was stolen from Reddit and is a meme used on many sites and is not original content.

I started to write a long post talking about it, but then erased it and just make it simple, to the point, somewhat mysterious, and watch the reaction.

To top it off, the meme wasn't even funny, it was the ingredients to Nutella.

If so, what was the point and do you think it was successful?

Yes, I think it was. There was a lot of discussion in private channel with influential people. Awareness was raised to how dmania blindly votes and rewards mostly stolen content.

Will things change? I hope so, I'm still skeptical. I love the idea of dmania, I just don't like the execution. I love memes, but giving stolen memes $50 upvotes and creating a community of spam posters that consists of 90% stolen content posted 5 times a day by users with multiple accounts fishing for a dmania lottery vote is a bad idea and creates a flood of shit content that doesn't deserve to be rewarded.

Unfortunately, it is hard to tell if a meme is original, most of the time it takes 30 seconds, but sometimes it is more complicated than that.

I get memes are viral and meant to be shared, I'm good with that and in fact, I encourage it. Rewarding it, on the other hand, is bad for STEEM in the long run and right now the easiest way to make money/abuse Steemit is to steal memes from Reddit and post them five times a day on Dmania hoping you get lucky.

As I said before, I can create 5 posts a day for a week and still have time to watch a sitcom, all inside of an hour.

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makerhacks (66) · 7 years ago

If Dmania wanted to they could apply a reverse image search before upvoting. They choose not to it seems.

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helenoftroy (57) · 7 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to respond! I thought that was the point you intended but now I can point back to this conversation if needed ... I stumbled on a comment thread that discredited you for abusing DMania. I wanted to jump in and say that you were trying to prove a point, but then I only had my own conclusions to draw from. It's helpful to have you verify it in your own words.

Also, good to know that you had some productive discussions with influential people! I was wondering if your point had been lost in the abyss. Hope we keep seeing improvements thanks to yours and others' efforts!

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cryptocatz (48) · 7 years ago

My favorite find of the week is @the-beard
So many gems on Steemit to be discovered 🤗

peterecheng (52) · 7 years ago

This is beautiful, i would advise you to go on with this because it could be of great benefit to exposing those guys who would be mentioned on subsequent editions who have been doing fine and re not been seen. You know how tough steemit is to those of us just coming up, its quite a strange land to new comers, especially those of us who have no money to invest here. So to me sir, you re good to go.

gikitiki (60) · 7 years ago

Great idea!! I’ll be watching every Friday from now on. Thursday’s with @meesterboom and Friday’s with @themarkymark

steemandre (34) · 7 years ago

great post @themarkymark and the followers you just mentioned got me looking up their profile and bet what?

they are worth following. i would be following them asap. thanks for the list as i look forward to next week follow friday post

simplymike (67) · 7 years ago

I think this is a great idea. I’m glad to see this is spreading around. It can never be a bad idea to stop what we’re doing every once in a while and tell the people around us that we appreciate them. Too often, we assume they know...
While appreciation is one if the things that drives us, right?

I’d say: keep doing this :0)

On top of that, let me tell you I appreciate you for giving me a list of interesting people to check out :0)
Of course I knew about @fulltimegeek (the man is a living legend), but the others were unknown to me, so I’ll go check out their profiles instantly.

ijatz (45) · 7 years ago (edited)

Hello @themarkymark, happy to Steem you again! :-) Thanks for making me discover @fulltimegeek and the "Stewards of Gondor"!

What is @jesta 's project he had to give up, and could the community carry on with its development?

I'm gonna check out @makerhacks work too :-)

themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

www.chainbb.com I don't think it will be gone forever, but at least right now it will be so he can focus on other projects.

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btcvenom (65) · 7 years ago

Let me know when you are next on Fortnite @themarkymark and we can play! I'm on Xbox but luckily you can play cross-platform now.

bigtom13 (64) · 7 years ago

Just generally speaking I like what you do and how you do it. One of the people I am always happy that I follow. So seeing those you follow gives me a sort of curated list that I can look at and possibly follow.

It is indeed Friday. Do you need me to send you a reminder next Thursday? :)

Thanks for doing what you do.

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melvadg (54) · 7 years ago

They seem to be great personals, it's a great initiative to keep showing the highlights of the week, you'll always meet great people so why not introduce them to us?

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thongbk (32) · 7 years ago

shot --> bum

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tsnaks (63) · 7 years ago

I like @m2nnari

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carlatortoza (30) · 7 years ago

I love this project! Awesome people to follow

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dedicatedguy (74) · 7 years ago

Is there a way to contact @jesta?

I would like to ask him something about steemdb?

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

He is on Steem.chat but he is frequently busy so just be patient if he doesn't respond right away. Make sure you leave your question and don't just say Hi and wait for a response. I get that a lot and it drives me nuts.

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expressionism (42) · 7 years ago

well it seem is good ideas!

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hendrawahyuni (51) · 7 years ago

i like people like @fulltimegeek

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

It's good to see others doing Follow Friday. I've no idea how many of these posts I've racked up. I like to get more exposure for those who deserve it

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snaves (39) · 7 years ago

A great idea, it can be hard to find new quality content to follow on here. I'll be checking all these people out. Thanks.

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artemislives (69) · 7 years ago

This is a great idea. Nice balance in your selection and really cool to learn more about the huge network of people behind Steem which are helping it to grow and evolve.

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realseb (62) · 7 years ago (edited)

Thanks for the shoutout! I really appreciate it. It's always a good time when were on, never would I thought I'd play fortnite and I actually hated the game lol but look at me now. So here's to many more matches! Thanks for being an awesome Steemian! I'm also going to check everyone else you tagged there's never enough good people you can meet out there!

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hitmeasap (71) · 7 years ago

What you have stated about @fulltimegeek is actually inaccurate. To some extent.

He launched the SOG (Stewards Of Gondor) and delegated almost all of his Steem Power to around 50 other Steemians. That is true. I were one of them.

However, he decided to pause the SOG program more than a month ago, and he undelegated all the Stewards.

He did that to fight the number one trending troll, and he has done that with full force ever since.

He is truly a whale everyone should be thankful for.

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themarkymark (78) · 7 years ago

I did have that in my draft, but looking back I guess I didn't include it when I finally made the post.

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