Hey @steevc
I suspect it was an automated vote via @shadowbot I'm still a member although I don't think I get rewarded that much given my activity has dropped to next to nothing. TBH mate, I'm not sure what's wrong with that post? https://steemit.com/c/@bigdeej/c
IMV Steemit kinda deserves that kind of behaviour. It allows big players to come in from other platforms who already have thousands of followers and lets them clean up in the rewards stakes. Then you have individuals who actually have no interest in the written content of the steem platform and purely see it as crypto speculation market. Then there are those who have not earned their steem dollars & power but simply bought them on the market place. Some of these individuals and I'm not saying all, wade through Steemit blowing away the earnings of people who on the whole don't deserve it and yet those who do deserve being blown away seem to be in cahoots with powerful members.
I've already written that IMV HF21 was bad, no scrub that, it was disgusting. It is designed to reward the rich and powerful while making the less well off even worse off and yet I see lots of encouragement like "Stick with it!" and "We need New Members fresh meat to keep the platform active and mine generate steem dollars." Steem(it) did need to get rid of the parasites it had (has) but the way it goes about it alienates some good people who are willing to work hard for the community, so much so that like me they either cut their contribution to a level of barely alive or leave altogether.
When you first invited me to join Steemit I loved it, I was excited and was on the platform ALL DAY EVERY DAY I was happily building up a following, read all help information I could find and swore blind I wouldn't stoop to using bots or multiple accounts purely to enrich myself and worked really hard to be a good, well behaved, worthwhile member of the community. The problem is, after a year it felt like I was being used I felt like the momentum of my account was grinding to a halt and yet my contribution level remained the same. It was at this time I turned to support groups such as shadowbot in the hope that the old adage of Saftey in numbers was the way to combat what appears to many to be an unfair system.
What initially drew me to steemit doesn't seem to hold true any more, the argument of "You write a lot of bilge all over the internet for nothing, why not write on a platform that rewards its authors?" seems worthless to me these days. At the rates I get rewarded I estimate it will take me seven to twelve posts to achieve one steem power token and steem power seems to be the key to unlocking worthwhile rewards.
The new reward split is definitely not ideal, but we are seeing a lot more abuse being cancelled out. There are some flagging battles going on. Unfortunately some big players still think they deserve big rewards for anything they post, even junk like I mentioned.
I stick with Steem as I enjoy it due to the good set of people I've met. The rewards are nice, but I've dedicated plenty of time to other online communities that didn't pay. I still see potential for it do help more people.
It would actually be good if new people with large followings showed up. It desperately needs more users. If a few do that and make good money then others will come too. This will result in a wider spread of rewards.
I don't see much incentive for the whales and witnesses to drive people away as that will make the Steem price fall even more and their investment loses value.
I'm doing what I can to help small accounts. I can understand if your time is better spent elsewhere. For what you are likely to make the value has to be in the community.
I checked with someone else who voted on that junk post and he confirmed my suspicion it was via a trail. Those need to review what they vote for.
Cheers
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I still don't see your premise for people with large followings joining. They bring nothing to the table, they certainly don't drop big upvotes on their followers. Some of them hardly interact with their comments threads while sheep merrily upvote them in some sort of almost religious reverence making them even more money. And I don't believe for one minute, loyal followers of people like sweetsssj would bother voting for any other accounts. IMO she is NOT a success story of Steemit, she was big before steem was even brought to life most of her stuff is youtube or Instagram based, she just regurgitates it here and cynically slaps a steemit logo on it.
I tell you what would sort Steem out.
Remove the ability to buy steem with fiat or any other cryptocurrency.
Watch the rewards pool start to swell as speculators and parasites start to leave. Of course, that won't work because then your account is worthless if you can't trade steem dollars, but it's a nice idea. 🤣
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There are lots of types of people who could join. Some will exploit the platform and others will embrace it. Depends on their motivation. Buying Steem now could give a good return of you vote with it and supporting good content could make it a more attractive place. There are so many variables, but it's down to whether people want it to last. Some just want a quick profit, but the long game may be much more lucrative. I'm prepared to wait and see. As I've said, it's fun for me, so I'll stick with it.
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Spend my $0.01 wisely. 🤣
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Cheers. I think rewards under a couple of cents still don't pay out and there's some people out to cancel my comment rewards, but I'm not too bothered. I do okay from my posts. I think the rewards on those are pretty fair, but then I've worked to build up support. It should be earned.
Remember I've bought guitars and trips to Steemfest with my rewards. I can't complain, but future users may struggle to make as much if it really grows. I want to see what happens.
So tempted to go on about a falling pound post-Brexit ;)
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Meh, it'll rally. In the meantime, we are flooding the EU with insanely cheap goods due to the low pound. Every cloud has a silver lining.
I am now off to sing Jerusalem at the top of my voice across the English channel in the direction of Boulogne.
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