c'mon guys are we seriously asking this?
First of all it's boobs. Boobs are and will always be successful. Especially famous boobs. So yeah, Ned upvoted some boobs to oblivion, cut the guy's mouse off...jeez...and yes it was worth it. Just like with DV, these people had a life before Steemit. A life in which they invested a lot, built up a name, and are now associating their name with Steemit. Steemit is the winner, and yes, it does pay a price as it should. It created exposure for Steemit which is much needed if we want to grow.
Second, the whales are not stupid as some may consider it. Did you also check her posts history? She had that 13k one, then she tried again but it only got to 2k, then she tried again and got 16 bucks. Unless she was going to start adding value, she was never going to hit more money. At the time of the first post, did people know she was going to do that? No.
Same thing happen to DV. He had his initial post, got 15k, then when bragging about it and milking Steemit, he got shut down. If he didn't change the attitude and start contributing, he would have had the same faith as the playmate. But he started adding value, leveraging more of this pre-Steemit worked statute towards Steemit, and it pays off.
I don't think:
- we can blame the boys for uptucking the playmate's post. It's boobs man, boys will be boys.
- she took the money and left? Well, that's good as she showed her real face and the rest of her posts showed the attitude towards that. I wonder what the attitude will be when Bieber, or the Kardashians join...
- we can't claim equal playmate/DV success for any of us who don't have the same amount of pre-Steemit status/work/fame as they have
- Hit and runs will keep happening. It's unfortunate I know. I keep telling myself I'll setup a piston API at home to expose the people who don't believe in Steemit and pull out to exchanges all their post rewards. There are many I believe.
- At the time of the playmate's post, yes 13k were paid to her but approx. 100k more was still left out of that day's reward payments for other authors. It's not like she took it all.
Not entirely true check out @girlsgonewild a few cents here and there.
Media accounts.
I dissagree with all your other povs as you're looking at it too dramatically. Calling playmates prostitutes and the whales foolish is too much imo. I don't like B & K either, they won't bring value but would bring exposure and millions of users to the platfrom.
Yeah, my bad on the downvote, checked and I didn't see it right I guess. Edited my comment to take that statement out.From what I know @brendazambrano is her account. She posted a video with a steemit t-shirt and also mentioned it on her Social