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RE: HOW TO COMMIT "STEEMICIDE" (suicide on steemit) - AND... HOW NOT TO, IF YOU PREFER TO AVOID IT
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Agreed, even just looking at your posts is an excellent way to spend time.
And when someone upvotes your posts, they could even make a little money while doing it, if they'd rather!
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You are right that Steemit, per se, is a good enough social platform, where we can have fun (certainly better than Facebook or Twitter, in my opinion), but on the other hand, the whole premise of Steemit's existence is for users to receive money for posting - and this is something most of us are missing at the moment.
Think of the following - why would people spend time (time = money, right?) here, instead on Facebook (where their friends are) or Twitter (where their favorite celebrities and brands post). Steemit's incentive is twofold - decentralization (data freedom) and cash for everyone. But the more people join, the more data is reposted from the net.
In order not to copy the entire net on Streemit, we have curation. 99% of curators are minnows and receive nothing for their work. The remaining 1% of whales can't curate the entire flow of new posts either.
So what we are left with is junk with the occasional good article posted here and there. Most of them remain unnoticed - because why upvote an article from an unknown author, when minnows prefer to spend their 20 vote daily limit on popular authors - to get that important cent for their click.
The current philosophy of the system is flawed and I hope it's addressed soon - because I really enjoy this new social network, and I'd like to see it progress in the right direction.
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This is where the minnows are going wrong. When they upvote a popular post, it's true the value of it rises. But the minnow won't get a curation award if whales voted before them. It is a complete waste of time for minnows to vote on popular stuff. They should seek to discover and vote for new stuff in the hopes that it will become popular when the whales vote after them.
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I vote on content I like, screw the playground mentality regarding popularity. An organized school of minnows can be larger than any whale, minnows swimming in unison is a beautiful display, kinda like murrumming flock of birds, there is safety in numbers when you are small.
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swarm behavior
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Agreed, great advice!
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I love all the minnows I started with and with little to no support we are growing. But mathematically all of the minnow votes don't equal a whale vote. I also vote on content and once in a while just to support my fellow minnows!
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learned something new today, thanks
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You've made some good points, and I'm glad for that.
A lot of expressed concerns do get addressed, and many people are hard at work to make steemit a success.
For the time being, my role is to encourage people like crazy and generate many great posts.
We all have a vested interest in the success of steemit, and the whales and creators are definitely hard at work attempting to ensure the sustainability of our community.
If anyone can do a better job, they should.
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I agree on that there are a lot of people who spend their upvotes on already popular authors, just because its possible to earn some. But than again i have seen many people to have a lot of upvotes for their introduction posts. And people who just made their second post etc. I guess it also depends on what kind of content you are giving others to see.
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I have honestly never even read a lot of those "super articles".
There are probably a good pile of authors that make a lot here that I have never even seen or upvoted. (not intentionally, it's just how it has happened - plus I'll not bother naming names)
I'm just glad that we can all choose how we want to spend our time and our votes.
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Sturgeon's law
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