Look at my steem power vs yours. Then look at this from the perspective of someone of my account standing. You'll understand then why many of us are actually happy with the change. If you're already giant, you are already happy being giant. The small fry, however, struggles to get anywhere while you can just make a simple shit post and upvote yourself and giggle about how easy that was. Much more difficult for those of us that can't upvote ourselves into success.
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You will never win by playing the comparison game. Do you think by reset the game you will get a new system? You are talking like it's easy making more Steem when you are "big" it's not. You still have to work hard and smart like anyone else. You are trying to attack a higher stake holders like they are a special breed. They are just like everyone else. So stop trying to shame people that have more.
Well @phoneinf, I disagree. Have a good look at some of the Whale one line or one word posts and tell me they work just as hard as anyone else. I'll wager that I can find a Whale shitpost with less than 1 word that made more than $20. At the same time I can spend 2 days creating a video and I have very good luck if I make $0.20 This isn't about shaming people that have more; this is about giving folks a fair chance when they deliver quality work.
Focusing on $20 in an upcoming trillion dollar market is like looking at an ant when the sun rises.
That wasn't the point, what we've been saying has completely gone over your head. The issue we're bringing up is effort vs rewards for that effort. Numerous people produce some high end work and it hardly gets seen and makes next to nothing, or literally does make nothing. Meanwhile someone can just log in, type "LOL" and click post and BOOM more income from typing 3 characters than a full day of minimum wage labor.
I have spent 5+ hours on just writing a single post that barely makes a few cents while someone can literally just make a throw away shitpost and score bags. That is the issue. Effort. High effort doesn't get rewarded meanwhile low or no effort gets heavily rewarded.
Why should anyone continue to really put in a ton of effort if all that's going to happen is we'll get ignored and unrewarded while content that takes literally no effort at all rakes everything in?
Why should I spend 66+ hours researching scientific articles and sifting through tons of complex information to write a quality post on the future of mankind as an interstellar species on Steemit when someone else can literally post a no effort post? Is my quality of work as a scientist, software developer, researcher and deaf activist worth less than someone who posts low effort garbage on Steemit?
"I have spent 5+ hours on just writing a single post that barely makes a few cents while someone can literally just make a throw away shitpost and score bags. " The problem is that you expect to get a reward. Which makes you come across as entitled.
I spent 8 months writing hundreds of articles on a website. I barely made $100. I don't go around complain though since I wasn't entitled. I wasn't giving what the market wanted. You have to adjust to the current market place.
"Numerous people produce some high end work and it hardly gets seen and makes next to nothing" this is not true. First of all it takes around 1-2 years of smart and hard work daily before you even get on the map. Steemit has barely existed for 2 years. So there is a lack of perspective here. You need a solid content strategy to succeed and you also need to leverage work + connections + capital. You need to be able to build trust and relationships with people. You need to be both Street Smart + Book Smart.
"someone can just log in, type "LOL" and click post and BOOM more income from typing 3 characters than a full day of minimum wage labor." no it doesn't work like that. That won't be sustainable for long. Majority of stake holders are not doing that either. It's a waste of time trying to look at the minority. And people can do what they want with their stake. That is the cool thing about this place. You don't earn insane amounts of rewards by self upvote. With a few thousand Steem you can get maybe 1-2 Steem by self upvote a day. That is not so much. So it's not unfair for anyone.
"Why should anyone continue to really put in a ton of effort if all that's going to happen is we'll get ignored and unrewarded while content that takes literally no effort at all rakes everything in?" this is because you don't put enough time and energy into commenting and building up connections. Yes it takes a lot of time. But it's the same for everyone else.
If someone invested early then clearly they will have more Stake. They took a risk. If they made a profit they can do what they desire with it. You are in competition with the whole world also. Since we now have globalism. This means you always need to improve your game.
Then I suppose you wouldn't mind a simple change to make the stakes more fair. Instead of the current system that puts things on the front page, how about things instead be chronologically ordered as they're posted without things sticking up at the top for very long at all? Would you be in favor of something like this?
What? That makes 0 sense. This place is run by upvotes.
@phoneinf As if the Whale who votes for himself doesn't expect a reward; talk about entitlement and hypocrisy. Go ahead, flag them a few times; see how they react! I don't expect a reward; I expect my work to be seen and rise or fall by it's own merit because if it doesn't, I haven't really succeeded, ..nor have I failed.
I am not some freeloader, I paid for at least half of my Steem, and the next time I buy Crypto I may just save myself the additional overhead of converting it to Steem.
What specific part are you replying to? You wrote to a reply that I did to another guy. Kinda confusing.
I've literally seen it with my own eyes. =\
Is it really a reset?