Like I said, I can't win for losing and don't understand enough about how steem works to get any traction. I spend an enormous amount of time creating my content. I think if you look at some of it, you will see it is good quality. However, during my shortime on Steemit, I have been accussed of spam because I was creating and commenting too much. When I stopped doing it so much I was accused of not being a productive member of the community.
Now I am being accused of buying votes and using bots, all the while being downvoted by the same circle jerk type bots I am accused of using.
Not sure it is worth it. I just want my content to be seen, find a community of interest and maybe build up some steem. But seems the "Proof of Brain" is more about memes and cute cat photos.
It's up to you of course. It can be hard to build a following on Steem. I have done it through masses of commenting, but then I enjoy that. You can 'promote' a post by buying votes, but it is expected that you will decline the rewards to show you are not doing that just for profit. It would cost you a bit to get on trending and even that does not guarantee getting much engagement as most people don't look at it. Maybe the new communities feature will help bring people together.
Steem is definitely not about memes and cats, for now, but there are cliques who just support each other. I do my best to seek out good content and support it. I have the @tenkminnows project that votes up small accounts, but I don't have enough Steem to make a huge difference. I just think we have to support the little guys of we want them to stick around, but also have to deal with the 'leeches'. See my latest post for examples of those.
It's all a game and enjoy playing.
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I thought that is what @tipu and @minnowbooster was. I was under the impression I wasn't just buying a vote, but some of the purchase was going into the curation pool, containing only approved curators who use and follow community wide blacklists.
So, I understand what you are saying...I think. If buying votes, it is considered foul to accept rewards. If you don;t accept rewards then you are fine. Correct?
If so, I guess I will try that and see what happens. I am sure eventually another whale or downvote bot will come along and slam me for that too for their own personal agenda, but I guess it is what it is.
I'll think about it. I hate leaving because I do enjoy it much more than the normal cesspool of objectification that is social media.
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I'm sure some of these projects have good intentions, but we each have our own ideas about what is good. I would hope you would not get flagged if you are not buying votes, but the are some rogue accounts who can leak out regardless. That's part of the freedom of Steem.
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I imagine some are doing what they think is right, but when you get downvoted just because of who votes for you(not a purchased vote) or comments, that’s heavy handed and not good and maybe worse.
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There are various feuds going on around Steem and it's easy to get caught in the cross-fire. Just have to move on as there is little you can do about it. People are not accountable.
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