...If RT, with millions of followers, brings just a tiny fraction to this platform, your Steem could be worth 30$ instead of 0.30 $...
They know how to bribe you. This is where it all starts. I have lived in Russia for 55 years and I know what I'm talking about.
I lived in Yugoslavia :D
They are not bribing anyone. They are doing just fine without Steem(it)
It a free market. They have published the post, people voluntarily decided to give their upvotes, shares and comments, because they find it valueabe.
This is how Steemit is popular according to Alexa:
And this is the same metrics for RT:
According to Wiki:
And the Total Market Cap of Steem is 150M
What they can get from Steem(it) - I don't know
What Steem(it) can get from them?
Recognition and the expansion of users
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They could buy at least 1M Steem Power just to show us that they are interested in our platform. But I doubt they will.
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Why should they buy something? Their goal is to spread propaganda and influence on other people. Steemit is just another platform where they will do it.
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It all comes to ROI:
From the marketing perspective:
The best (only?) way to earn from Steem at this moment is to start from scratch, make something sustainable in real-life. Use Steem just as a bonus. Hope for x5 price
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I see you are only interested in money. And the fact that Russia is conducting an aggression to other countries, you do not care.
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Not just money, of course. I'm interested in girls, cars, girls in cars, guns. You know, just average "boy's stuff".
Why would I care.
And even if I care, I don't see how my care can change something as big as that.
By the way, here is the list of wars since 2003. Let's do some quick check.
By nations, how many times involved:
But you don't care :'(
LOL
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Your analysis is woefully incomplete. You neglect that RT specifically is a media corporation whose value depends on views, as well to an unknown degree based on how they serve the interests of the Russian government in other ways.
That $300/day of upvotes is far more useful to generate followers, and would be enormously stupid to waste on self votes. Consider how a few thousand carefully placed upvotes between $.30 and $30 could create goodwill, and that measly $300/day of value attainable via selfvotes is utterly laughable.
Business is more than accounting, and society far more valuable than it's economy. How about you provide estimates of the value of each user of RT to the company (I can't even imagine how to represent the value government sponsorship provides RT, as, again, that value is far beyond monetary alone), and take a stab at estimating how many new users they could generate with such upvotes? That would be a far more realistic valuation of a $500k investment in Steem.
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Mmm, I don't agree. Since the beggining, I'm agitating for the paradigm that the main focus should be on products, in this case - on news. As RT is producing good content that attracts 100.000 viewers on YouTube, it's highly unlikely that "bribing" steemians would make a difference. Especially if we keep in mind that monthly user base is less than 50.000. Steemit is still lacking basic functionality: ability to interact without the account, simple account creation and decent wysiwyg editor
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Well, media enterprises are extremely dependent on goodwill for market share, and RT didn't come on Steem by accident. I don't think they need to drop a bundle on Steem and undertake outreach to create goodwill, however, because a lot of folks are going to create it anyway out of gratitude for the content that will imbue Steem with value. Further Ideological impediments to creating goodwill aren't likely to be addressed by such outreach either, so undertaking such expense doesn't have much to recommend it. Lastly, little on Steem dispels goodwill more quickly than serial upvotes, circle jerks, and similar profiteering. It would be beyond foolish for RT to drop a chunk on Steem just so they could selfvote $300/day. They'd lose ten times that in goodwill for doing so easily.
None of the flaws in Steem you mention specifically impact RT ops.
Generating goodwill on Steem isn't bribery, although you've probably encountered rank pandering that sought to mimic goodwill. Upvoting posts and comments relevant to your interests does generate goodwill, and conflating that with mere bribery is a bit churlish.
Notice how I'm not bribing you?
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average revenue per online user = $2
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That's a good start at reckoning value to RT of their users. I should have expected you to provide such data.
Thanks!
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