Yes, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts.
I agree that it is heavily tilted towards those who started early and they have a lot of power on the platform. The flagging wars were awful and personally, I am not very much into the bot thing. Actually, the white papers say there shouldn't be bots...
That said, I feel that this platform also has some very supportive people on it and it certainly pays more than FB or any of those platforms do.
I think in the beginning, people do need to power up all their earnings to get to more voting power and reap curation benefits. but there are quite a few who have made working on here their main job and cash out the SBD they are earning and keep growing their steempower with the steem portion of the pay out.
And Steemit has share buttons to at least FB and Twitter. So, any post to those platforms can be written on here and then shared.
But I know what you are saying. If you already have a good income from other platforms, this might not be so attractive - but could be part of an overall strategy.
Hope you stay and at least post once in a while :)
Marianne, I was going through all your blogs now and just realized that you have resteemed my last post. Thank you very much for it, I should have noticed that earlier, there are still so many things I need to learn and know here.
Instead of reading all the FAQ here and the white paper, I prefer to spend that time reading people's posts and learn in the process. This is my usual learning style, I hardly read any instruction manuals ;-)
Once again, thank you very much for all your help and support, and nope, I am not going anywhere yet, I am going to give Steemit my 25% best effort. The other 75% goes now into altcoins and trading. Quite a lot has changed in my life from the time I wrote my intro post here, Maryanne I am slowly but surely becoming a crypto coins trader :-)
good for you!! I still haven't gone that route yet. But will...
Marianne, please help me here:
how in a fair blogging system platform, one can get more votes than views??
I am NOT teazing you, I am sincerely looking for a sensible explanation.
(BTW, it feels super good knowing that I can write here and you will read me, but, it is you, not the system ;-)
fair - I don't know if any system is fair. That said, it looks like you got lucky and had a curator give you a vote. Often, curators have a whole trails of votes following them.
This is good for the person who gets the vote - but also for the person voting. by voting, you earn curation rewards. Granted, they are much less than author rewards, but still, it is something. If you let your 100% voting power just sit there, it doesn't do anyone any good.
Many people want this platform to succeed and want people who post quality content to stay. So, they actively look for good posts and give them attention. Obviously, that takes a lot of time and not everyone can do this. But many want to support those authors as well. So, they join a curation trail. A finds the content, votes on it and B_Z automatically also cast a vote - often a very small percentage, but en mass, it adds up.
they earn curation rewards without having to worry about it, the person voted on gets a better payout and hopefully, everyone is happy in the end.
Hope that makes sense...