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nice post, bro.

I read yours, how come you not upvote me?

Good information, sir. (comment was on an absurd meme)

If the above comments sound like yours, I am here to tell you:

YOU NEED A NEW GAME.

These kinds of comments actually reduce your chances of earning because they repel people instantly.

STOP. NOW.

You are wasting valuable energy.

There’s a new level of desperation on Steemit these days and I think it’s a product of terrible marketing, and I’m a tiny bit guilty too. Steemit has attracted a new breed of selfishness, and a lot of it comes in the form of people promoting Steemit like this:

“Hey, you can upvote your own posts AND comments, and make a decent salary, even if no one else upvotes you.”

This type of marketing sucks, and it’s not really accurate, either.

Steemit is a SOCIAL network. The behavior described above is ANTI-SOCIAL.

It won’t work as a strategy to bring abundance. It will only bring a very short-term gain. People will actually stop giving you attention. Remember, attention is the commodity that is becoming scarce.

In Steemit, you can actually make way more by being a decent person, interacting with others on a deep level, and creating solutions that affect large groups of people. The more people you help, the more you can potentially earn (but it takes a lot of time and dedication, consistency, and a breaking point).

Your blog is now social real estate.

Think wisely. Do you want to build a pigsty of shit, or a kingdom of idea diamonds? If you create a pig sty full of shit, no one will want to stop by for tea at your pig sty.

And if you tell people they will do well on Steemit if they write well-formatted posts, that’s not exactly accurate, either. If you write and don’t interact with others you probably will not do well. Steemit is a SOCIAL NETWORK.

It’s also a Delegated Proof of Stake platform. Dan Larimer invented the DPOS system, and it does not function like any existing mainstream blogging company. It’s a new design. At first when I joined Steemit, I didn’t know what Delegated Proof of Stake meant. It took me almost a year to understand it fully.

The reason no one tells you the truth is because the mainstream world doesn’t operate this way. It doesn’t operate the way gift economies work. The mainstream world operates like everyone upvoting their own posts and comments shamelessly, each person picking a corner and masturbating until they’re senseless.

That is not the definition of a social network.

That is the definition of a masturbation vomitorium.

I love what many of you have done to promote Steemit, but if you could make this one adjustment, I would be very pleased: please stop encouraging people to upvote their own comments all day long. I’ve watched several videos where some repeat this over and over for people to just upvote their own stuff, and the message is actually misleading because Dan didn’t invent Steem for that purpose.

The only reason that this has happened recently, is because of HF19. Before that, my full upvote strength was worth about $.30, not $10. Dan predicted that people would abuse the platform and self-upvote to an extreme degree, so that is why the algorithm was created to reduce the upvote strength of smaller accounts when Steem was first designed.

It was us, the community who rallied together to get this algorithm changed, in order to give a voice to minnows. We argued that minnows need to feel the power of being able to give say $.05 to others, instead of $0. But now, it appears that this algorithm needs to be re-considered due to self-upvote abusers (the big ones, the ones who vote for themselves more than 50% of the time).

Desperate Minnows: Please Steal My Post Ideas

I’ve been thinking about ways to help those who feel desperate, and here are 10 post titles that I would love to see posted on Steemit. You are free to use these post ideas, and write a post with these same titles, if you like any of them. I am at a point where I don’t have enough time to write all the posts I want…..

Here goes, please steal these titles, write these posts and keep all the rewards:

FAQ Me on Steemit
My eSteem App Review
Follow 4 Follow: A Deep Statistical Analysis of Empty, Soulless Comments on Steemit
How Papa-Pepper Socializes on Steemit And How You Can Be More Like Him, A Human
How To Make Friends With People
How To Make Friends With Bots
How To Stop Posting Stuff Like, “Follow 4 Follow” And Become a Human Again
I Hate Myself, But I Still Post Once A Day on Steemit
5 Strategies To Teach Others How To Use Steemit
How To Turn Your Mental Illness into Money On Steemit
From Troll To Functioning Human: My Journey
How I Operate A Botnet on Steemit
I Think I Am In Love With A Robot
Why I Stopped Using Twitter For Masturbation Purposes
How To Lose Money on Steemit: A Guide For Power Trolls
How To Write A Steemit Post: A Guide For Shallow People
Steem Addict: How The Blockchain Swallowed Me Whole
Idiot’s Guide to Delegated Proof of Stake

If you write a decent post with any of these titles, and i like it, you’ll get one full upvote from me and a resteem. If I don’t like it, I won’t vote for it.

TL;DR: More creativity, less shit commenting.