@timcliff posted an article yesterday asking what it will take for STEEM to reach $10 in 2018. In the post, he had this:
As stakeholders, we have a responsibility to take an active role in improving the value of the token.
He went on to write:
Ideas on what Steemit can do are OK, but I do not accept the idea that we are 100% dependent on them to get us there. I am really most interested in hearing ideas on what we as community stakeholders can to do increase the value of the token.
https://steemit.com/steem/@timcliff/what-needs-to-happen-to-reach-usd10-steem-in-2018-discussion
While his focus is on the price of the token, I prefer to focus upon the contribution to the blockchain and the distribution of the SP.
Over the last 6 months, I followed the breakdown of the different classifications based upon SP and the shift that is occurring. My research went back to March of 2017, the point forward that I analyzed the data. Each month that I run the numbers, it tells the same story. While a flawed system, SP is indeed being spread out. More of the SP is going to the smaller accounts as a whole.
My personal belief is that we will see this accelerated as the number of users join the blockchain. With 60K dailiy active users transacting, we can formulate how this was change if that number was 600K. Since the sign up process is going to remain manual for the foreseeable future, I propose this.
It is time for a massive Minnow (and Plankton) Uprising. It is time to overwhelm the system.
Before I get to the premise, a few facts.
According to the numbers compiled by @arcange, there are 143,793 Minnows and Planktons on this site
https://steemit.com/statistics/@arcange/steemit-statistics-20180611-en
@penguinpablo has these stats.
Daily number of votes: around 700K
Daily posts: roughly 43K
Daily accounts transacting: 60K
https://steemit.com/steemit/@penguinpablo/daily-steem-stats-report-tuesday-june-12-2018
The present reward pool pays 75% to the author. This is where the system favors those who post. It is time, as @timcliff says, "to take an active role".
Here is what I propose.
We need 10K Minnows and Planktons. Basically that is anyone with less than 5K SP.
These individuals are tasked with creating a Minnow uprising. Basically, this is designed to overwhelm the system. Each individual agrees to post 3-4 times a day, every day, for the month of July.
Also, each person uses the 10 100% votes allotted on a daily basis. Use those votes to self-vote each post plus each other. One cannot use voting bots but can partner up to vote in pools with/for each other.
This might sound like a lot of posting but there are many tools to utilize. One post can be a zap by using Zappl. Another could be a Steepshot photo of something you found interesting. A link can be posted via Parley.io. You can put up a D.Tube video or a Steemit post. Lest we forget, post a find on steemhunt.com.
Use the tools that are available on here.
With 10K Minnows doing this, here is what will happen in the month of July.
There will be at least 30K posts a day just by this group (compared to roughly 43K total now).
We will see 100K 100% votes (or many more when using the voting bar).
This equates to close to 1M posts and a minimum of 3.1M 100% votes (probably more like 5M when using the voting bar). That is an incredible amount of traffic for this site based upon the present activity.
We also could see an enormous increase in the number of comments based upon the average of 2+ comments per post.
I will run the numbers through June 30th on July 1 and post them as I always do. On Aug 1, this will be repeated to compared the growth rate of the two classifications over the month. I will also pull up the numbers from previous posts to see how much this jumped compared to the norm.
It is time to take action. Instead of waiting for the larger accounts to do something, it is time for the smaller accounts to take matters into their own hands. 10K accounts putting up 30K+ posts a day plus all using their allotted voting power will overwhelm the system. 75% of the reward pool goes to the authors and that is a lot of posts to try and counteract. The 300 largest accounts simply cannot create enough content to counteract all that activity.
So there you have it. Who is in?
Try to share this idea with everyone you can. For those who are creative, please try to think up some names for this and create some gifs. Minnow Overwhelm. Minnow Uprising. The Return of the Minnow. 😀
For 31 days in the month of July, the reward pool is there for the taking. It is time for the Minnows and Planktons to take what is there.
It is their Independence Day.
By the way, by doing this, the chances that a bigger fish comes by and sees your post is greatly increased. With that many posts, there is no way the Dolphins and Orcas cannot see what is being posted. A few of those posts will suddenly find some decent upvotes each day.
If you found this article informative, please give it an upvote and resteem.
I smell a minnow spring like event happening...
Zappl is a great tool to get crazy and be active on this platform.
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Update: Good timing as our iOS app is out now!
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If people on my steemauto join this and churn out 4 shit posts a day (which is most likely what they will be if you're going for quantity), I will be removing them for the duration of the challenge and not upvoting anything. I doubt I'm the only one who would do this.
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If the challenge was to write 10 insightful, uplifting, supportive comments on minnow posts each day for July, that would do wonders.
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Can’t we turn this into a challenge for extra motivation??
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That would be better Matt. And a lot easier to do compared to spamming the block with low quality content. Plus it wouldn't interfere with steemauto.
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I too love the idea of genuine comments as well!
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I do like the idea of a #minnowuprising, but equally, I share the concerns expressed by @lynncoyle1, @simplymike, @choogirl, @whatsup, @mattclarke. I know that creating a quality post takes time and as much as I'd like to post once a day, that's a tall order, unless it's photographs I've taken and then, I'm not sure about the appeal (they are often of my cooking/food if it's on Steepshot. I accept that one can use tools to dictate, but when I write, I write and it often takes a while for something to brew. I have a list of things I want, no need, to write about, but I have to be in the right space for that. Anyhow, in principle, I support the broad concept. Let's see how it goes.
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Well it's starting with or without us @fionasfavourtes :) Let's see how it all pans out!
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I like the idea of being more active but 3 to 4 posts a day is boarder-line spam. One decent post takes at least a few hours. Maybe we should be promoting quality as oppose to quantity. If I want junk or quick posts I'll go to Reddit or Twitter. There is definitely a tradeoff between quality and quantity and seeing low quality posts in my feed makes me want to stop following people.
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The vast majority of people do not want to join or be a part of a social media site that insists on people spending hours to create a post! This thinking is a huge part of what hurts our retention.
Let people post casually and the votes go where they go.
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I agree whatsup,
I will speak here down below just a bit in general about the concept of letting votes go where they go.
Something that YouTube has learned me is how much of your earnings comes from the videos that doesn't seem to be making much. But they all add up very fast since nobody counts the little income streams. 0.01c may seem like a little but it's huge and adds up very fast over time. This is a shiny gold coloured 10 cent euro coin.
Look how beautiful it is. Sometimes whatsup clicks a button and creates this but on the Internet! If you can visualize the real money in your hand the physical then you will see the wild value the small sums adds up to.
This is a 1c euro coin.
Can you see how it also has a charm to it. With not a gold colour but a lovely bronze colour. Almost a bit noble. Took energy to produce this. Remember this Minnows. Those tiny votes add up and have massive value!
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Not telling people how they should vote. Just saying lower quality content which isn't promoted is likely to get less votes. It's discouraging to post and have no one engage or upvote you except bots. Maybe suggesting minnows comment or curate more of each other's posts as oppose to chasing whales is a better solution. Tiny votes do add up but you are more likely to attract votes and friends if you are producing quality. Some quality can be produced in 20 minutes or so if you take some photos and already know about your topic.
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Yes promotion is very important.
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You're right many people are too busy or lazy but that's why they aren't rewarded as much as people who put effort into quality. I don't suggest flagging anyone or banning them but I am definitely not alone when I tend to unfriend low quality posters because I don't want to see junk clogging my feed like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit or most of the internet for that matter. The beauty of Steemit is it is customizable and you can choose to be annonomous yet still be heard by like-minded individuals.
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I agree with what you have stated. Let the votes go where they may, I am not saying they should earn the same as those making creative, interesting posts that create engagement!
It's not an hourly job.
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One person's trash is another's treasure.
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Sadly enough, at the end of the week most garbage ends at the dump or floating somewhere in the ocean.
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Like this comment string?
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That is not true, you can write 350 good words in 10 minutes. Yes good. You can create 1500 words in 10 minutes if you speak them and a program translates it into text in real time. A very long article takes 50 minutes. The market wants more value and speed. It's up to us humans to find smarter ways to produce more value to the marketplace. Clearly you should do a combo of both quality and quantity.
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Value and speed are great when it comes to computer programming but not to art. In Steemit and life there is a trade off between efficiency and creativity. We should collectively help people get better. Getting better involves increasing you quality and efficiency. Most people and robots aren't capable of stringing together 350 good words in 10 minutes.
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Yes most humans can do 350 good words in 10 minutes. It's called focus. We are super intelligent and can easily do that. We can probably do 1000 words if we push ourselves. Value and speed also works in the art section.
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The National Center For Education Statistics claims only 3% of Americans in grade 12 write
at an advanced level and about a quarter are proficient. The majority are basic or below basic. source
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This is after 50 years of wrong schooling. That will say you can fix it again to create perfection. Humans aren't using their true intelligence 🐈
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I agree that the writing isn’t the part that takes time. Personally, I think it’s important for a quality post to have a decent layout, enough things to break through the ‘I don’t know how many second’-rule.
I can write loads of articles in the time span you mention, but it will be simple blocks of text, which -for me personally is a turndown.
My last article took me 20 minutes to write, and then I spent 3 hours preparing the photos. I realize that’s a little over the top, but hey, I do think layout is playing an Important role if you want to get a message through. And unless you guys are all wizards, and I’m a retard, creating a post that is pleasant to read rakes time.
Of course I could do 5 Parsley posts a say. Same goes for Zapple and Dmania posts - even Steemhunt posts don’t take up a lot of time.
But I don’t know about you, but I sure don’t want to see that stuff flooding SteemIt.
So back to me original thought: how about a cooperation with small and bigger accounts that will reward quality content. No matter how hard they try - even if they manage to get 20 quality posts out every day - the minnows won’t simply make it on their own, not without a couple of ‘suggerdaddies’...
But hey, what do I know...?
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You need a solid content strategy to succeed. A bigger vision where you have a plan to give 100x value in return. That is what will make a person "blow up" so to say.
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Agreed.
It takes time just to find interesting topics to write about.
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The point is to overwhelm with numbers for the month to attain the goals of little fish gaining traction. We can all deal with more Snapchat type posts for a month to upend the pecking order a bit, hey?
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If I want snapchat posts, I'll go to snapchat. Curation groups and communities are the way to go. Suggesting people upvote more minnows is another way to go. I prefer quality and curation over post quantity. In May I made an effort to post everyday, it wasn't easy, sometimes there was only time to snap a few photos of the cat and write a few paragraphs. Not one of these posts received a decent sized upvote or was recognized as being special. Because they weren't. I just wanted the @steemitboard monthly poster award for posting everyday in a month
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This is just awesome but I already post 4-5 times sometimes less. If were going to take over Facebook you better quit pissing and moaning about content, if you don't like ones content, keep on moving and shut up. IMO
The graph that shows the minnow's and whales if mind boggling and could be exactly why Steemit doesn't make it. This is such a great post. Thank you @taskmaster4450 for putting this together. All I got to say is, that it's definitely not the Minnnow's holding Steemit back...When Bitcoin and all the other coins are in the Red Sea we should be in the green, gaining the followers and gaining the power in our Coin,Steem. Have a blessed day....
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Actually, I'm not a minnow, but I totally hope you find people who want to do this and that it works!
Usage is good, the focus on Quality Content is bad. Activity is good! I love it. Go forth and make it happen!
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I guess no one would mind if you would help to make it happen... Like I said above: no matter how much good content they produce, they have zero voting power.
Imo, “massive uprise of plankton and red fish, overwhelming this place with quality content, will have as a result that they will have to spread their 0.001 upvote even more. Loads of those quality posts will never earn a dime because all voters have no valuable vote.
There is no use in starting a revolution when no one has anything.
Maybe the über top guys don’t care, but there’s gotta be some ‘almost top-guys’ willing to offer their support. If not, it’s a lost case even before it started...
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Haha! You are talking to someone who made 95 posts that didn't earn a payout when I was a minnow. I also made a hundred more that made a dime or less. That is what unknown Authors make. I am willing to support an effort, you should go easy on the violins we were minnows too. I've been doing this for 2 years.
We grew each other and we did self-vote when we had tiny accounts.
To be brutally clear, it is not my job to make sure you earn. However, if I see people actually trying, I support that.
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Exactly. People don't see how stuff gets easier all the time. I uploaded 500+ videos on YouTube before I earned a single thing. You used to had to apply to become a partner.. People raise their standards haha
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I’m very happy to hear you haven’t forgotten where you came from. Lots of people have.
I Can also only applaud that you’re supporting people who are really trying.
I didn’t mean to offend you. I’ve just come across a lot of people who did forget they were a small fish Too once.
And I accept your opinion that it is not your job to help anyone earn.
But that’s how we are different.
I arrived here 6 months ago and felt completely lost. Fortunately I ran into some people with a plan. And then the big rush started. So many people signing up, so many people that got frustrated because they were promised the world, and they got nothing.
It ended up with us putting most of our energy in trying to keep the ones that could actually do good here from leaving. 90% of our time goes to supporting the smaller fish, the ones that still need to find their way.
Sometimes I get really frustrated, because we have spent all our time and money trying to help others, while we could have been spending our time mingling with the big boys. That’s a choice we made, I made. As a result my posts get tens of votes and earn a buck.
But I guess it’s just in my nature.
I wouldn’t have been here if it weren’t for the support of fellow minnows. I think it’s only fair that I pay it forward, as a sign of gratitude and respect.
It took me 6 months to figure out this attitude is slowing me down. Only last week I realized that as long as i’m a small fish myself, the support I can give to others is very limited. To be able to support more people I need to grow my account as fast as possible. I feel ashamed that I can see no other way to do this than to play the same corrupt game everyone else is playing...
Organic growth is not going to be enough. So I closed my eyes and stepped into the world of self-voting and using bidbots again. I hate myself for doing it, but I truly hope the end will justify the means.
Because from where I’m standing, SteemIt is killing itself. If nothing changes, we will all be fcked. We’re probably fckef anyway, but At least I want to feel that I’ve tried to make things better for everyone. Especially for those thousands of newcomers who were lured here with big promises, only to find out that were all lies.
I’m probably fooling myself with these visions of change, a more fair and balanced platform for everyone. A platform on which the community is more important than greed. Fel free to think I’m being stupid and naive, but please don’t take that away from me. A girl’s gotta have hope, right?! Without hope, everything is lost...
I’m not blaming anyone for the choices he or she makes (naah, not entirely true, lol), it’s a free world.
I hope you don’t blame me for trying ;0)
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You are a well fed fish hahaha
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Minnow Uprising!, the summer blockbuster from the folks who brought you Sharknado.
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Not to be confused with Shark Tank.
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it seems like a nice idea but it begs one question. if there are fewer posts today and they still don't get noticed, will it not worsen as more posts are made? with the current interfaces, more content will be treated as more junk and hence impossible to wade through and find what we want
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You can count me in! I normally post 3 times per week but can make an effort to post some photos or short thoughts during July to support the initiative! We should use a tag to identify the posts so we can upvote each other accordingly.
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#minnowuprising
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Hey @taskmaster4450, I am in! However, can I suggest distilling this post to an infographic or something of the sort? I will try, over the next week, to do the same but I am not so handy in that respect.
I love the idea, I just feel this post may have too much information for some of us minnows (and some plankton too!) so if the initiative you propose was spelled out in a basic way (step 1, 2, 3...) it may help more people participate.
And I don't always say it but I am constantly uplifted by your unbridled optimism for the Steem Blockchain!!!
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I think the premise makes sense: If there are more posts, the dolphins, orcas, and whales will have more chances of seeing posts. They need to be following those people or someone who resteems those posts. (Unless they are actively looking through the tags to find new posts to vote on.)
I would be curious to see what percentage of votes are already set. In other words, how many votes are automatically given, and therefore the average user has no opportunity to get that vote. If a whale is already managing their VP to keep it at a specific level, are they going to have any VP to use? Or would that disrupt their system?
Just some thoughts I have. I like your idea of being intentional about posting more though! :)
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Forget the whales. Create your own SP and you won't need them.
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You can’t generalise: same goes for dolphins and fat minnows.
In an ecosystem, every party needs the other parties to survive.
If there is no one around to help out the small guys, how are they ever going to get past a 0.01 reward on a post? And what about all those minnows (including me) who dedicate most of their time to help the red fish. They build an audience of people with no VP, limiting their own chances to grow. We all know that t would grow our account faster if we would be focusing on the bigger guys, yóu guys. Build relationships , write other stuff than yet again another newbie tutorial. Everyone knows that the bigger accounts aren’t waiting for that information, which means no upvotes will come from that direction.
I don’t know most of you, and I definitely don’t want to offend anyone, but we’re in this together. And unless we start helping eachoter, not caring what league we’re swimming in, this place is simply doomed to go
Under...
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No I agree. However I don't think mners who are not part of some community or movement should be punished, ignored, receive little to no upvoted, and it happens all the time.
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Sorry, got carried away a bit ;0)
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Lol no worries.
When I said forget the whales I meant in the context of the #minnowuprising. If the minnows actually do something and start voting for each other then the whale votes don’t matter so much because of the aggregate voting power of the minnows.
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We have been working on that for the last couple of months.
I’ve read many posts about SteemIt needing a (bigger) middle class urgently. IMO, minnows can’t solve that problem on their own. Maybe they can, but it will definitely take a couple of years. All those 0.05 to 0.15 upvotes aren’t going to make a difference in the short run. And the long run... if things don’t change, I’m afraid there will not be a long run...
To actually make some progress, some bigger accounts will have to step in and support the little guys.
Do you really believe all those new lost souls that will arrive here on SteemIt will be prepared to stay if they get a hundred votes and not even earn a buck?
I think I can speak for a lot of people with a rep under 60 or 65 when I say they’re only staying because they are too stubborn to give up.
Me and a lot of my friends are staying because we are idealists: we still think we can make SteemIt a better place for everyone.
For me personally, that means I’ve got to put aside all values I had. Just recently, I started using the bidbots and the self-voting again. Because the only way I’ll be able to help others survive here, is by growing my account asap, even if this means I have to lower the standards I had set for myself. I wanted to grow the organic way, but now I realize I was believing in fairy tails.
The bigger I grow my account - with all means possible - the more people I can help. It doesn’t feel right, but I have no choice. I have a little support from two slightly bigger accounts, but that’s not going to be enough. I don’t have ‘sugardaddies’ here. No delegations, no big upvotes. If I want to grow my account to be able to help others, I have no other choice than to let go of my ideals, and play along. So I’m using the means I detest. I was cursed the day I realized that I didn’t care about the money anymore, but that I cared about the people.
And with my lousy rep of 57, and my poor amount of 2500 SP (of which I delegate half to others for free), I’m a nobody. If I want to make myself useful to the community, if I want to make a difference there is only one way to go: go against all I’m standing for and use the same dirty tricks everyone does. And I’m only one if few that realized this is a problem. This is not making the platform any healthier for anyone.
But hey, apparently we small fish need to swim together and rub each others tail, because no one else is prepared to share a little of the truckloads of money they make to give all this little guys a head start.
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I love the stubbornness. I'm stubborn too.
It would be nice if the bigger accounts supported more of the little guys, but I don't see any way to incentive that.
There is something like a 3-to-1 ratio of lurkers to posters right now. If those posters put something up for #minnowuprising 3x per day, every day, then the rewards would actually start to matter. Sure, not as much and not as fast as if you got a vote from one of the big accounts. But enough to keep on keeping on.
I'm in a similar zone as you account-wise, with a couple decent sized followers who upvote most of my stuff. And I definitely used bid bots (minnowbooster ftw) to grow my account quickly. I don't think anyone should feel bad for using the tools at hand.
Absolutely right.
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I just feel that those with large account who care about this platform should be more generous with their votes to minnowers and encourage this minnowers to power up and support other minnowers. I think this will help a lot in the value of steem down the line.
Saying that minnowers should post three times a day might be too tasking because some barely are able to post one day because of other engagement outSide steemit.
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Agreed. I get tired of the same circle jerks. I do not belong to a group or curation and have been here 6 months now. I see all sorts of crap posts and newbies surpassing me in rep scores with posted junk, while I work hard to create decent posts that get little response. Tons of bs floats to the top while hard work goes unnoticed! It's infuriating at times!
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Yeah, things need to change.
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I'm in.
But how do we easily identify each other?I see #minnowuprising now
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Is there a difference between posting using the steemshot/ zapll app and posting with the zappl/ steepshot tagged as the first tag in the post. The reason I ask is I am a beginner developer who has been doing a lot of practicing with steem-python. I am thinking of making a piece of software that schedules the posts to zaapl/steemshot. Any thoughts/ advice would be gratefully received!!!! : )
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I'm a little late to the party here but I still want to at my $0.02 here. I will join my fellow minnows in July for a post a paloza type of month but, BUT I refuse to post whatever random crap I can pull from my arse. I will, however, work hard to publish as quality content a few times a day. whether or not my post will actually be worthwhile is up to the consumer. and maybe, if times get tight... a cat photo
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I've been doing this for months.
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I am in as that is what I do every day.Business as usual.
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I believe in your vision, I have for awhile. So much so, that I have have been posting 4-6 times a day every single day this year. It’s defintely doable. I have so many other things going on and still make it happen.
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Count me in! It's hard to bring a group like this together. I don't know if we start with a discord chat or where to begin but I'd definitely take part.
Fellow minnow.
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I won't be able to post this much during the month of July but I like the idea. I will try to contribute as much as I can!
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Very interesting!
I have one question! In my community we have a Curie trail so the team leaders told us to write only one post per day! I suppose this is to prevent the conflict of some bloggers getting more upvotes than others. Also, I have two or three supporters who auto-upvote my posts everyday. So if I post four articles a day, that would seem unfair to my supporters as they post once a day! Also, there is a rule in my community that we would not upvote our own posts!! This is a strict rule!
So, please advice me how I could possibly join the uprise!!
Thank you for your good effort!! It’s hightime someone created some viable solutions!!
Cheers.
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Oh, I don't know. Seems like a good idea, but then again when I think about it more, it has it's pretty big negative aspects too.
First of all. 3 to 4 posts is in the borderline of spamming. I've done it (with my other account) but just because I wanted to have that darn daily author badge in SteemitBoard. :D And depending on the content of those posts, 3 to 4 posts a day is spamming. Don't get me wrong, I do upvote posts that aren't so special. An ordinary photo with and ordinary and short text. Just to support. Just to tell that someone has potential. With my lousy minnow power. Also if someone posts quality posts that have pretty pics, informative and original text and sources, but 3 to 4 times a day, I don't have the time to read everything. And if I don't read it, I wont upvote it or comment on it. It would be terrible for me to comment: "I read only the tittle, didn't read the text, keep on posting!"
Second of all. Quality content is not an easy thing. Although one should always believe in oneself, just believing does not make a good writer or a photographer. We are not everyone native English speakers here. And believing that good ideas come on it's own does not make good ideas come. You have to be creative or / and work hard for it.
Third of all. Quality post are different things to different people. Just as bidbots upvote on everything that is payed for, ordinary people tend to upvote friends and like-minded accounts. It does not necessarily mean that those posts are quality as defined in so many posts here in Steemit. But that's OK. Some people like science, some amateur photos. Some like to read about ordinary life, some like to imagine things and live in Utopia.
But hey, I have nothing to lose. I chose to write in Finnish to this jokinmenipieleen account and I chose to write about stuff that has gone wrong in someway. So I have maybe two readers. :D And I also decided that I'm not upvoting myself with this or the other account (where I write in English). And I'm sticking with these decisions. So I'm doomed! :D
Also I would like to stick with the decisions that I'm at least trying to post quality content. Within my own measurements. So writing 3 to 4 posts a day with both accounts is impossible for me. But I can surely try.
So in spite of "Oh, I don't know." I'm in! It's only for one month. I can try and most certainly I will be commenting other minnow posts and upvoting those that in my opinion deserve to be upvoted. But isn't that what we are supposed to do here anyway? Commenting and upvoting others? Supporting minnows. From minnow to minnow.
This certainly is not the stupidest idea. If it was the most stupid idea in the world, I'd be definitely in right away without thinking. :D
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Although I think I like the idea, it is still a minnow-only thing - if I understood correctly.
Still none of the bigger accounts in site.
That made me wonder if people like you, Asher, Valth, are going to stand by the sidelines, cheerleading for the minnows, but not actually helping them...
(forgive me if I’m wrong about this, that’s just how it sounded in my ears.
I’m not very good at tactical games, but the more people with a high reputation play along, the better the odds are, no?
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You can count me in to post daily during this fish festival. I resteem this post to spread the word around!
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Love it i'm on it try to post as much as I can and vote everyday. Let see how true decentralisation can work 💯🐒
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As a few other people have already mentioned, 3-4 posts a day could be tough and you would more than likely be sacrificing quality.
So to that end, I plan on stocking up on posts the rest of the month, so I can release a good quality post every day for the month of July.
I have never been one to drop that much content, but with a few weeks head start, I think I can make it happen. I also plan on using different formats to mix it up...like a dtube video, a steephot picture, and so on.
Thanks for the idea.
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I am definitely intrigued by this idea, and am taking it back to the teamnz members (and teamaustralia members) in our server .. and beyond. thumbs up
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I am in.........all for it
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I am in on this one, this is going to be exciting!
Minows, let's get the party started already!
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I will try to do my take part in this revolution!
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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish Got This
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I will join the #minnowuprising with posts on this tag. Having everyone partipate with that as one tag will help us support each other.
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Hi @taskmaster4450 . . . this post is awesome , the contents full of information, cool
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What are the mechanics of this project? How a minnow or plankton can join?
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I personally don't like to spam more than 1 posts per day. But I am all for conducting experiments and trying things out. Also I am a believer of statss and data. If your analysis is correct, then I am sold.
Recently get to know about zappl and was planning to give it a shot. So why not take this opportunity and join the minnowuprising ;)
Let's see what happens in the month of July.
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thanks for the resteem, happened to see this article. read some of the comments above about quality of content vs quantity and was thinking about some stuff (not biased to either). I didn't realize there are actually factions that are more for posting casually like 'statuses' on fb, I didn't think about this before that this could actually be the push needed for steemit to cater more for the masses. Currently its more of a blogging platform so more quality is needed, but maybe the former might do the trick too. not sure ._. haha
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I think it is about how you use Steem as a platform. Steem as the underlying platform can be used to post any type of content. Dlive/Dtube for videos, Steepshot for instagram like content, Zappl for tweeter like content, Steemit/Busy for longer blog like content. We even start to see very specific content type like SteemHunt.
So you are right in a way, if you are using Steemit most of the time and you see Zappl content, you might think it is of low quality. But if you are using Zappl to view those content, then it might be seen as normal. I think that is probably something which can be addressed in future updates. Perhaps a function to hide/show certain content depending on which interface/app it is posted from. On Busy.org, the site seems to be able to differentiate which app the post is posted from.
That is because the app info is embedded into the post as one of the metadata.
So the feature to hide/show based on origin of post is certainly viable and it could very much improve the overall users' experience.
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I am in. Thank you @culgin for resteeming this post. I have not try Zappl and will try using it. Posting 3 to 4 times a day, hopefully we do not get some rubbish ideas like what we eat for breakfast to dinner.
I really want steemit to increase the value of steem and sbd. Though I am only a scratch of a nut. Being here for 87 days now, I will work my way out to get to as high reputation as I can. I am not even a good writer. Still makes a lot of mistakes. But I am learning from a lot of people here in steemit.
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Yea, I personally also do not like the idea of posting too many times per day. But it is also dependent on how you view the Steem platform. I think the reason why some people might be reluctant to post too frequently is because there isn't a good way to filter posts based on which app it is posted from. Imagine if we can do that, we will be able to see quality lengthy posts that are posted from Steemit or Busy, then short tweet-like posts from Zappl and insta-like posts from Steepshot.
That will be ideal.
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Great initiative so how do i roll in . Or be a part
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Interesting idea. What about us non-minnows?
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Of course non minnow are involved. Planktons need to participate too. In fact, there is also the upvoteplankton tag to use on your posts to gry and garner votes.
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