A small Reddit change that is making me quit - and an interesting personal Steemit statistic I found today

As most of you know, I love to curate posts. Even before Steemit I used to upvote posts on Reddit, browse through the 'new' section and look for great content early and if you had something funny or clever to say at the same time you commented and often those comments received many votes from other readers. That's a big reason why my Karma used to look like this:

Yes, I used the word used cause now with the new change of giving users their own profile pages they for some reason decided to merge together Link Karma and Comment Karma. Making it look like this and basically telling their users that we don't really give a shit about your preferences.

and yes, I did check if it was changeable in the settings. This pisses me off a lot cause I know how many Reddit accounts just used to spam links in subreddits, didn't care if it was re-posts, content that doesn't belong to them or was just spam that would make curator's days harder. They literally just submitted links across the internet onto Reddit for the sake of gaining Karma, as if it was Steem Power that actually has value.

I hated everything about those users who just spammed for the sake of receiving karma, even if is just imaginary points it was still something that you'd check up on now and then and somehow incentivized you to do better. Now they are basically just telling everyone that spammers are equal as commentators. Then again this shouldn't surprise me much cause the one thing they care is probably as long as traffic keeps flowing, doesn't matter because of what. Doesn't matter if the content is from some other site or belongs to another person, as long as the readers find it on Reddit and stay there. To make sure they stay there its not even allowed to link sources to the original creator who's work you just shared.

See the big difference there between Steemit and Reddit?

With @steemcleaners and @cheetah we do the best to catch content stealers, plagiarists and ID thieves. We watch out who we give rewards to so that the reputation level after our name means something, along with the Steem Power you earn with it.

I've been on the verge of quitting Reddit ever since I stumbled upon Steemit. Having been early on Reddit (first as a lurker) and having a 6 year old account maybe that was a big reason to why I saw the potential and knew that with this even bigger incentive it won't take too long til the platform becomes golden. I remained on Reddit cause it still had a big user-base and at the same time as I was using it as normal it would also let me compare it to Steemit in many different ways and I saw the improvements our platform has from many different perspectives.

I am pretty sure I will not be posting actively on Reddit anymore, probably just using it as a sharing site for mine and others Steemit posts just like how I use Twitter nowadays.

//rant over

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On a brighter note, I've always wanted to know more statistics about my Curation here on Steemit. As Reddit isn't open-source or saves your actions as transactions on a public block-chain, it was hard to tell many times why a post or comment of mine got downvoted. This has been a huge problem for Reddit in forever, looking at r/bitcoin and the amount of control and manipulation that happens there is ridiculous. Yet no one can or wants to do anything about it.

I knew the website Steemdb.com created by @jesta had some really interesting stats but it would only show the top 100 curators, that list only showed top curators in amounts of SP they had earned. Thanks to SP Delegation I have been able to see my own name on that list now and that gave me the extra statistics I've been searching for some time - amount of Curation Rewards and number of Unique Authors I have voted on.

This screenshot is taken from monthly curators which can be found here, I took a quick look on the list to see if there were any others with a higher number and were manual curators but I didn't find one.

This might be a bit braggy but currently its one of my most important personal statistic which I am following, since my curation has been about distributing votes as wide and fairly as possible while focusing on newcomers and their starting Steemit adventure.

Thanks for reading.

PS. for anyone referencing to the combined Karma with "on Steemit all comments and posts only count as one anyway" - remember that's just cause the Steemit Front-end shows that, with a blockchain the possibility is there to count them separately and the site Steemitboard.com does that (which is where my Footer Icons are from).

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