Autovotes, what a luxury.
I have also noticed some authors I follow have fallen in the trap of riding their autovotes. In all honesty, the crap or on average “Meh” quality they have started to publish - almost all of them - serves as a constant reminder to not stoop as low and abuse the goodwill of those who support.
Maybe I’m weird but - even with so many reward bots out there currently - I still prefer working at a post and hopefully earn an upvote because people see the effort which has gone into writing.
It’s just... more rewarding.
More honorable.
That said, I don’t have any significant autovotes so I can’t say if I would actually misuse them. Although I doubt I would. Quality is a reputation. I like looking at my feed and being proud of the effort put in.
I’m truly curious now whether $10 combined autovotes would affect that or would push me to deliver even better content. It’s definitely an interesting problem to have.
If I ever use autovotes you'll be on them. :P
Thanks for the vote of confidence. Words like these are inspiring and mean much more than an autovote often does.
An upvote should IMHO be earned, not taken for granted.
Btw... since I don’t politic not use bidbots I would be a poor choice and drain on your autovoting ROI. Better chose recidivist bidbots users for autovotes. :P
I tend to not vote on people that use bid bots. :p
I agree, but a lot of time goes into promoting your posts in various discord channels, choosing the right tags and the timing of the post. Time that would be better spent to further improve on the quality of the posts. Hivemind will be such a revolutionary update.
read it, not to get a little uptick.I agree with you, @fknmayhem, on the satisfaction of creating a good post. I write for people to
creating.And I also agree with you, @street.yoga -- there's so much time spent trying to figure out timing, tags and Discord... it takes away from the time to devote to
Great post and discussion-starter, @acidyo!
Don’t expect too much from Hivemind. The more you expect the more you set yourself up for disappointment.
Lots indeed requires mega promotion but that’s not different from maintaining your own blog, self-hosted or hosted by a blogging platform.
It’s not because you wrote it that the hordes will storm down your front page to read you.
When I still managed an indie blog network, we spent thousands every month to promote and boost newly launched blogs and lesser known sites. Some sites were old and lucky enough to be in main aggregators (like Techmeme) or had many RSS subs but that was the result of them being written by authors with a large network. Not just because of the content published. Other times that happened because we invested in promoting those sites.
Everything else than a custom google search will already be satisfactory :)
I still think that steem Inc. is interested in a better way to find content, not guided by wealth but by talent, see this introduction of a good person token, which together with hivemind sounds like an interesting approach:
https://steemit.com/steem/@nairadaddy/good-person-token-something-big-is-coming-from-steemit-inc
Those are announcements, not actually shipped elements/code.
Communities have been announced since 2016 IIRC. A mobile app (iOS) was announced as ready at SteemFest 2017.
I also think you need to understand what Steemit.com and GPT are: they are the centralized roll-out models which aim to create traction and inspire others to build more gateways. I wrote about that here.