I do mean well. I started out with, don't take it personally.
Quite a few vote sellers have shifted or plan to shift back to being curators now that the incentives to do so are becoming somewhat balanced with vote selling, but I think curating is slightly more appealing now. When I started, travel bloggers, artists, everyone — they produced content, got discovered, eventually made money. The platform was more like Youtube's model where you could produce content, not expect much at the start, but slowly grow if people enjoyed your work. That all stopped once people starting paying the curators to not vote, by purchasing votes. You folks buying votes literally shot yourselves in the foot, as I've already said. You vote buyers paid people to look away. Of course someone will accept your money if you agree that all they have to do is take your money and not do anything. You're responsible for your own decisions, same with your husband.
They put thousands of hours into making movies, and that time spent doesn't make them good by default. Just saying. Just because you folks promote your work, that doesn't mean people have to enjoy it, or even look at it. Most people leave the room when the commercials start, and hit the "skip ad" feature when they can.
I'm not sure why you feel like sharing insults with me though. I don't want any part of that. If you really think pouting, calling people names, and saying the place is a scam, is a good idea, then I'll just assume it's probably best you're leaving. All you're doing is taking downvotes personally, which is silly.
Of course it's personal. It's bullying, pure and simple, to enforce a certain behavior.
That's a pipe dream. Vote selling has become even more profitable now with the 50/50 split. In any event, whatever anybody is planning doesn't give them the right to bully people into behavior they deem appropriate.
This is true, no guarantees. However, I have tried to explain to you already, the most valuable content takes too much of an investment in time and money to take the risk of being downvoted IN ADDITION to not being "liked" i.e. upvoted on its own merits. So these content creators will leave or never join in the first place because they can't win, no matter what. What's left is a few idealists and that's not enough.
Think of it as a rock band: In one town, they give concerts and sommetimes they bomb, occasionaly they have a full house and a fun gig. Risky, but on balance worth it. The fun factor of playing helps them to keep going even though the money isn't all that good.
In the other town their promotional materials are destroyed consistently, before the concerts even start, and attendance is low accordingly. The powerful city council is paying a posse from the public coffers, to tear down every poster and trash every flyer, because they don't feel rock music is worthy of their town's attention. The mayor says, this policy will bring symphony orchestras to town, for a bright future of classical music.
How many rock concerts will be held in that second town? And for that matter, how many symphonies played? I wager, they will be left with the town's own high school band at best.
The problem is, you won't have much to curate.
Quick: How many top Youtubers has Steem managed to attract in the past, despite more favorable conditions and a more positive media hype? All they would have to do is, embed their already uploaded videos and take Steem as a bonus. And still, it's incredibly hard to onboard them!
What do you think happens every time a Steemian is disappointed for whatever reason and leaves? What kind of reputation does Steem get in other social media? How do you think the negative vibe of massive downvoting will play there?
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