In today's Report from the Shallows we learn that plenty of whales like to stop spammers, unless it is one of their own, then they tend to look away and keep moving.
https://steemit.com/blog/@farazahmad/reality-of-sweetsssj-she-is-doing-fraud-part-2
Clearly the billionaires boys club has a favorite.
Reward pool rape hits retention the hardest, when newbies put effort into posting they know they won't make it to the trending page, but they would like to get a dime, or two, on a post.
All those folks on the trending page get their rewards from the minnows first.
The less stake you, and your voters, have the more gets pulled from you to give to the already rich.
We get action on @haejin when he rapes the pool, but we miss a lot of others doing the same.
Our reputation on reward pool rape has kept us from getting an 'A' on those Weiss reports of who is who in crypto, I'm told.
Why on earth would anybody, less than rich anyways, want to play the steem game when all they get is the shaft?
I mean, I get that I am a grumpy @antisocialists sob.
Rarely do I put out feel good conformist crap posts.
But, even when I put out good information on ideas that could help free us from the crapitalusts' bs I only get support from those that support me despite my lack of fuzzy posts.
I'm not going anywhere, I am not here to get rich, but to put out my content.
Maybe change my reader's approach to life.
We can escape the crapitalust paradigm, the path has been laid out by anarchists that came before us.
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-berkman-what-is-communist-anarchism
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread
Instead of going to the top of trending for presenting ideas that most of here claim to want to support, I sit in the doldrums because I have bent tooo many whale feelers with my version of my truth.
Thank you for your support, dear readers, it warms my cold, lonely heart.
Today we learn from @bitgeek's report that:
Dust accounts got 6.2% of the reward pool in the last 12 hours.
Newbies got 12.19%.
Users got 23.94%.
Superusers got 28.62%.
Heroes got 18.28%.
Superheroes and Legends got 9.05%.
That still looks like a pretty good distribution.
Now if we could get more folks to vote on the newbs instead of the already rich maybe we could up our retention rate.
Now we come to @statsmonkey's charts.
The same 10 voters, out of 60k+ active users decide to vote ~25% of the reward pool to their favorites.
One out of four sbd given as rewards in the last 12 hours went to these 10 voter's favorites.
Ain't crapitalism great?
If you take a look at the top ten votes, you see the same whales doing this day after day.
The list doesn't change much day to day.
It has improved since I started these shaming reports, used to the top ten voters voted more than 30% of the pool to their favorites.
You, dear reader, have to decide for you what, if anything, you want to do with this information.
I hope you give a vote to the sources of this information, I already have.
Have a perfectly peaceful day.
Keep working, stop paying. No war, but the class war!!
How to win in court for far less!!
Is there any data on user churn rate or active weekly users? Asking as I seem to see the same usernames over and over.
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The churn happens at the bottom, most new people don't stay around for long. That's why the most active people we've seen recently are either aged accounts of 1+ year or very new accounts < 3 months old.
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@paulag and the #bisteemit is the data resource.
@jang puts out a daily report that includes user stats.
We see the same names trending each day because of the imbalance in stake.
Those making bank continue to brown nose, and those that can't get dime regularly leave.
If you look @statsmonkey's list is the same ten users day after day after day voting ~25% of the reward pool to their favorites.
1 in 4 rewards goes to these same ten voter's votes, daily.
Yet, nobody can figure out why we have been in the doldrums,....smdh.
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Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Tell me you didnt read that in nemo's and dorry's voice
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I may have, if I had seen the movie.
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A very informative article. Thank you for sharing @freebornangel
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On the positive side I notice that some of those on the @statsmonkey list are voters who share it down. @hendrikdegrote follows all the @curie votes going to minnows. I'm still looking into @adsactly, but that appears to be a group working together in a giving and supporting fashion. I've heard @glitterfart spreads votes to the newcomers too. @buildawhale I'm still undecided on as I'm not impressed with selling votes, but they also seem to resteem work. I've also seen @good-karma upvoting minnows.
Another whale not on the list who shares it around is @blocktrades.
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Are you saying that they are doing a good job?
Let me give you some steem math facts you might want to include in your equations.
When one account votes, it gives the whole reward pool to it's vote.
When two accounts vote, what is the ratio between a 100sp vote, and a 10,000sp vote?
I don't know the exact math, but that data will explain to you why I am so against ganging up to influence who gets rewards.
Those large sp accounts pull vote value from those with the least, first.
If they set a 100mv limit, I would stop beating this drum.
Instead they vote with 10,000mv and make the game unattractive to regular folks.
Think about the newbs, with .001mv.
Aren't they the ones we want to see buy some steem?
They are the future currency users, if we can interest them in buying into the currency aspects of steem.
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I'm just trying to look for the positive! Lol! If they're going to be taking that much of the reward pool, then at least they're sharing around more. Unlike some...
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That would fly with me, except that pointing at other wrongdoing doesn't justify doing wrong.
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The system is already in place and not set up how you feel would be fairer. So they are working within that system in a way that spreads the wealth better than some. Could they do it in a better way within that system? Probably. Do they know how to? Maybe not.
In simplest terms, what would you tell them to do, working within the set up as we have it, to arrange things more fairly?
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Everybody votes their own stake.
If they don't have time, they don't vote it.
They should vote 'good' content and not popular posts guaranteed to get curation rewards.
We need better content discovery means.
I use steemvoter because when I didn't I had a hard time finding the posts worth reading.
I couldn't remember all the names of authors.
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I hear that! So hard to find good content amongst everything that piles in. I have to admit my best gardening content gets offered to magazines before here, because I know I'll get a cheque for more than I'd get even on a well curated post here. Eventually I'll rewrite them differently for here, but I can't post the same as the magazine has.
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Thanks for the heads-up.
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I like your style! Thank you for telling it like it is and sharing the voting/payout stats, making a transparent platform even more see through. It's great to learn something new.
I have been here a month, and it quickly became apparent that not all was puppy dogs and candy floss (which I must admit was a bit of a relief, because anything that seems too good to be true is suspicious - perfection is not balance).
Having said that and seen some of the nasties, as well as the goodies, I am a stubborn, optimistic, patient, philosophical realist, so I'm sticking around for the kicks and will encourage new users to do the same. Earnings will come and societal karma will take care of things in the end!
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Thank you for your kind words.
Absolutely, just keep putting out content and your audience will find you.
You are still an early adopter, life here will change dramatically this year, imo.
Here is a tutorial on curation:
https://steemit.com/curation/@miniature-tiger/an-illustrated-guide-to-curation-from-the-simple-to-the-complex-with-real-examples-from-past-posts-part-1
Now you know even more,...
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...thank you! 😆
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nice,,, informative post
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