I've mentioned this very thing. I don't understand why they complicate things for themselves. Geeks I guess. The "if it's not broke fix it until it is." syndrome. I see no need for "payouts" to be broken up into two discrete time frames then canceled after that.
Why not pay as you go? When post get's an upvote..credit the account, forever, any time there is a vote.
. Why be complicated about it?
I think you are optimistic about the number of live accounts.
Waaaaaay optimistic.
Do you have some specific info about this or it's just a feeling? I'm talking about the number of the accounts.
And other reports like it.
Notice the number of active authors? About 1400 people a day.
Notice the number of active curators? about 4000 a day. I'm fairly certain that there are curation bots. How hard would it be to program a general purpose 'comment' for the 'bot when it voted?
I'm pretty sure, from checking profiles, that many if not most of my most lucrative posts are upvoted by botswarms.
That said...Steemit is no different that FaceBook. A little more raw, less sophisticated, cruder but less domineering.
I'll probably stay until the end.
I think we're talking about power users here. Like, you know, users who are engaging daily with Steem. But apart from these users are also lurkers, people who wait, who don't have the time to fully engage yet. In my personal experience recommending Steemit I saw that barely one in ten is becoming a power user. But the other 9 are still humans. Their are not bots. So multiplying the number of active curators by 9 gives about 36.000 real users.
Only daily?
If I'm awake I'm online.
most of the time that I'm online I'm on steemit.
Thank you for posting @dragosroua. Yes, there are those who have their toes in the water and not yet fully engaged....watching, waiting.....for a business like model if you will that enables worthy content for profit rather than prostitution of self.
The title is well said. Lovely aliteration usage. All the best. Thank you for the opportunity to express thought. Cheers.
Thanks for being around and success to you too! :)
Great info. It would be interesting to see the results of http://truthy.indiana.edu/botornot/ on this platform.