I disagree. Author rewards are too lucrative now (personal experience) and this is making people abuse bots. I won't mind receiving less rewards in exchange for a better Steem. But what I can't understand is 110k dollars for 2 months of development? Are they using a team of how many software engineers? This is a full year budget for most startups!
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I'm not sure what country you live in, but the only kind of software company I know of with a budget of 110K for a year would be one where the programmer owns the company and does all the programming himself (I started one like this, back in 1992).
Keep in mind that Steemit is paying for this, and they have a pretty good idea of the costs involved, since they employ their own team to do similar work.
BS - Im a cofounder of a successful enterprise SaaS company serving multi-hundred-million dollar revenue scale clients that employs half a dozen devs and our running dev costs are under 8K a month. Nice try though, the noobs will swallow it hook, line and sinker.
The company that never produces, laid everybody off, and burns money faster the feds, "has a pretty good idea of the costs" of colluding again with the same old insider people.
Sigh. This is why all the provable brains have left, except for those of us that enjoy warming ourselves beside the dumpster fire.
I'd love to find out where you're hiring 6 devs for 8K a month (china, maybe?).
But let's get real and just use the results of the first web search I do on programmer salary in the US:
https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/computer-programmer/salary/
Why does it matter, are ya racist or something?
It matters because the prices you're listing don't make any sense.
I don't see any point in discussing this further, your "rascism" attack is such an obvious ad hominem.
They make sense to anyone who builds software in the global economy that doesn't inflate their prices to ridiculous levels while realizing the typical onlooker here doesn't know any better.
And my observation, which you label as an attack is far from off the mark.
Just ask any non-US based programmer on this world wide platform who is wondering why you value only US based programmers so much.
You basically just shit on everybody's intelligence here and you want to try and turn it around on me?
You'll have to do better than that. Deflection of truth won't get you very far with credible observers.
Sorry pal. Not buying the bullshit.
Or how about this one: "Projects are now directly funding those who have an interest in blockchain programming because there is a severe skill shortage in this space. From beginners to experts. Even though the average salary of a blockchain engineer in Silicon Valley is $158,000, programmers who have experience in Solidity (language for creating smart contracts) is in short supply and high demand."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/shermanlee/2018/04/11/the-demand-for-blockchain-engineers-is-skyrocketing-but-blockchain-itself-is-redefining-how-theyre-employed/#49f5a5a96715
Right, use the highest (and only?) bidder, got it. That makes good fiscal sense and visibility.
@igormuba bots aren't the issue here. Most people actually lose money on promoting with them after curation. The real problem with incentives is colluding upvotes. Nevertheless 20% cut in author rewards is way too much.