I wanted to write about something which I may have written about before, but I believe it's of outmost importance for your Steem blog/page. Especially if you are someone with an already existing fanbase on another platform.
There have been many that I have noticed who join Steem with the hopes to post content here and be rewarded similar to the way they are rewarded on other platforms. The difference is that there you get rewarded from adrevenue, here things work quite differently. Many of these content creators seem to lack interactivity on their posts which often can lead to less votes being given to those posts.
I know, I know, a lot of investors and curators have lately given up on curating and are delegating to bidbots, etc, for maximum profits, but there are still some around and hopefully with some changes around the corner they will be incentivized to curate once again.
What I would recommend any of these creators from other platforms that are having a hard time on Steem, though, is to market your Steem account on your existing social media platforms. This is not just selfish advice to raise the amount of users on the platform for my own gain through the value of Steem rising. You will benefit a lot through it by having more interactivity with your fanbase on Steem as well than just on the other platforms. The key differences here is that you yourself can reward your most loyal and good commenting fanbase and they can grow with you to support you in the future. It is not just ethics so that your posts don't look like graveyards with some rewards next to them, but it is beneficial for everyone.
One of the few reasons I've noticed flags in the post which have been about "disagreement of rewards" have been on posts they've felt have been overrewarded when no one was commenting on them or the author was not engaging with his audience at all.
I personally have some loyal followers who have been interacting and voting on my content/contributions for a long time and with their SP and prices increasing their stake and votes have become worth a lot more than they used to be and I appreciate their continued support a lot.
I don't want to dismiss the negative points on the platform right now such as spammers writing short comments and voting themselves up or those that barely have any SP but hoping for votes on copy-pasted comments. I know those can get very tiring to endure and have to read through but I've learned that flagging them every once in a while when you recognize the usernames or just ignoring them and rewarding good comments instead will show them that they won't gain anything by doing what they are doing right now and they might try better.
There are many who don't speak english at all and may not have bigger influencers in their own language they can hope for some rewards from, but I've learned that even if they try with google translate and you can tell they actually read the content instead of just copy-pasting random spam - a reward on their comment will go a long way. I believe that languages and communities around that will improve a lot once Hivemind is released.
Anyway, what I wanted to get out is that, if you have a big following elsewhere, make sure to let them know you are posting on Steem and invite them over. If you are able to, you could even offer them free accounts through steeminvite.com or steemcreate.com which will only cost you 0.1 Steem and some delegation which you can take back later. This way they won't have to wait for long to create an account through Steemit, at least until the next hardfork where account creation will hopefully be faster.
Just like it has for me, I believe it will definitely be worth it in the long run to have your loyal followers onto Steem with you!
Exactly! There was probably a time where just being a known YouTuber would automatically get you votes, but the novelty wears off.
When people just paste their YouTube content over to here, I may toss them the occasional vote if I like them and just want to support them anyways and here's my chance, but I'd do it a lot more if they were actually using the platform.
If it's worth it to have your content up here, it should be worth it to interact and use the platform in a sincere way.
Cool article. There is so much about steemit that I don't really understand yet. For example, I just voted for you as a witness. But what exactly does that mean or accomplish? And maybe I should've asked before voting? Lol. Sometimes just taking some action is the best way to get moving, and understanding will follow, is my approach ;)
I don't actually have a witness myself. :)
My curation group does under @ocd-witness if you'd like to vote for it. (I get about 20% of its rewards, the rest is shared among other curators in the team)
You got it
Thank you! :)
Sure thing mahh man, keep it up! Will tune in next time you play Fortnite and maybe test myself against you :P
Cheers!
yes i want to like to vote it. How can i do it?
https://steemit.com/~witnesses
Remember that it requires your active key, though!
Any worry ? if i use my active key can it have possibility of hacking ?
I think that possibility is really tiny on steemit.com, unless you have a keylogger or something else on your computer.
ohh okay thanks for your kind information.
I voted for you also...please check out and curate this post of mine , its a guide for new steemians , please curate me to encourage me write better contents...
https://steemit.com/steemgigs/@blackempror/an-absolute-comprehensive-beginner-s-steemit-faq-welcoming-and-familiarizing-new-users-steemit-newbies-guide
If I'm not mistaken, you only get to 30 votes when it comes to witnesses so use them sparingly.
I am a huge proponent of commenting.
STEEM is a social media blockchain. Hence the word"social" is in there. On STEEM, commenting is one of the biggest ways we are being social with each other.
The spam comments get a bit annoying at times although I will say some of the recent things members are doing on here to alleviate that is terrific. The same goes for the scammers...@arcange is doing a terrific job in that area.
Authors who do not reward those who comment on them tend to not have people following for too long. I try to upvote most of the quality comments left in any of my posts. While it isnt a great amount of money, it adds up over time. I know of some who post a comment (quality) on every article I put up and receive an upvote from me each time. That is roughly .35 STU each day from me.
There are also times where I will have a "conversation" with someone in the comment section and 6-8 upvotes will be passed from each of us.
The advantages to commenting by both curators and authors cannot be overstated. I love seeing this article. It is crucial that people read it.
Thanks for mentioning my work so positively @taskmaster4450 =)
It is us who need to thank you for the relentless pursuit of all the scammers and phishing sites that come on here. You are doing a tough job and, it appears, winning.
I also appreciate your pulling of the STEEM stats....your graphs provide wonderful visuals for what is taking place. It is also a great way to reference the change from 6 months or a year ago.
I select and choose who I follow sparingly.
@taskmaster4450 writes well and it is always informative and of high quality.
I'm happy your example is being followed and as a result we have more quality authors like @arcange and @acidyo.
We need more people like you in the Steemit community.
Keep up the great work.
There is a member on my group (teamsouthafrica) that has a solid following on Youtube that attempted just that. Bring that following onto the platform.
Unfortunately, those also have a fanbase already built there and laughed off Steemit as one big circle jerk.
Since they all primarily focus on the video aspect Dtube was their go to and the frustration of struggling to get the video's to upload combined with the minnow rewards they were receiving simply wasn't worth it, from their perspective.
@braaiboy, at least, has had the courage and determination to stick it out, posting some great content too.
Thanks for the kinds words @therneau ...
@acidyo, this is my 2 cents:
I tried doing exactly that... in fact I even went a little further... I have a group of influential (for South Africa anyway) YouTubers that I convinced to join Steemit. My reasoning: In my first few days/weeks, I quickly realised that nobody actually "discovers" new content on Steemit. Everyone that is anyone is already voting for their friends in exchange for return votes and it's near impossible to make a name for yourself with a 0.002 vote on offer in return.
Great! Fair Play! That is the game and I was cool with that (not entirely dissimilar from starting out on any other new platform)... and my own fault for getting to the party late...
Hence the decision to get these YouTubers onto Steemit: We could create our own new little "circle-jerk" party... I even created a bot that was going to upvote all these friends' posts... financed using fiat that I personally invested...great in theory. (but that turned South because STEEM took a dive literally a week after I invested, and the math no longer added up... a story for another day).
Anyway... the biggest resistance for all these YouTubers to join: Uploading content to @dtube and/or @dlive is "challenging" to say the least... Steemit has no native apps, mobile is a joke, and any 3rd party apps (while also far from user-friendly) take up to 25% of any rewards you might have wasted money on with bots for ANY sort of visibility. So wasting hours on a new post (because copy-paste from existing channels, just to "start a presence on Steemit" gets you flagged) that garners <10 views doesn't justify 'annoying' the following you have there (not to mention the damage done to real world relationships with the staff of FB & YouTube etc. that one might have managed to make a connection with).
In short: There's 0 incentive for creators to post content on Steemit (not even talking money... many creators don't make money from other platforms either), and even less for our audience to leave a comfortable/working platform and try consume content on Steemit (because even watching videos is a challenge, and all the 'regular blog posts' look like something from a '90s website... assuming the author even put effort in to making it look that good). I have a few cool (in my opinion) series ideas, that I wanted to make STEEM/DTube exclusive, but they cost time and money to make, so they will find their home on YouTube where, although ad revenue will be negligible, I can at least raise real world sponsor capital to fund them.
Something random, but on topic: this is a snap from a whatsapp chat earlier today:
Loosely translated: "Is it just me, or is DLive is a joke?"
THAT is the exact convo I've had with every other creator and sponsor I've spoken to so far.
So why am I persisting:
Well, I'm fortunate enough to be in a position where I have nothing better to do. I have the time on my hands that it takes to engage with the 5 people that actually watch my videos and read my posts, and so... I'm now literally running 3 additional accounts on behalf of a few very close friends (they create the content and I publish and promote it for them)... They might hopefully be worth something one day, and then we can all upvote each other (assuming STEEM becomes worth a lot more that it is currently).
If not... well... at least I met a few cool people (which is Steemit's ONLY saving grace so far: Truly great communities here and there in between all the junk & bickering). Oh yes... that, and I've had some fun learning to code again and have a lot of all-nighters creating bots / automated games. Something I thought I would never do again... and find myself quite enjoying as an alternative to going out and getting drunk every night... hmmm, just realised I spent far to long writing this comment that most likely will only be seen by the 2 people tagged in it. :P
TLDR;
No incentive (ignoring financial) for creators to post content, and it actually does harm to existing channel audiences if we try convince them to (attempt to) consume it on Steemit.
I'm working on these comments and always suggest engaging with the post, but you make an excellent point that it's all about engagement both ways!
I wish curation was more valuable than bid bot delegation. That would fundamentally change the way things look around here and would probably encourage more accounts to bring followers from other platforms here.
My work does focus more on the negative 'stop' but clearly we need another positive focus around 'start' so users know how best to engage with Steem as a whole and foster our continued growth.
Oh, I thought you were a bot, have noticed you in the comments before. Thanks for your service! :)
Yeah, trying humanize my work a lot more! Thanks for your support!
Hello Sir, you always talk about the very important thing, especially if you are enjoying your gaming skill. You use awesome graphics cards and your graphics quality is very nice. I think if you start discussing other topics, then this community Members will benefit a lot because you are an important member for this community and Too important to the community every step spinner.
Sir, if you continue to present a number of cryptocurrency and other topics as well as games, they will really be very good direction for community members because there are so many who are not yet aware of cryptocurrency and other things.
If you talk about everyday and other issues, it is really important that the object will be beneficial for this community and much more than this community members.
I would pay a humble tribute to each of your activities.Please accept my sincere respect.
Thanks for the advice! I've been wanting to start posting about a lot more diverse topics but been quite busy with a few side-projects lately and enjoying streaming way too much! :)
Hopefully soon I can get back to more detailed crypto posts again like I used to with #alt-news (if you want to google those posts).
In the meantime, feel free to follow my @acidzapps account for diverse short crypto news I try to post every now and then!
Sir, you have given me a valuable time to reply to me, thank you so much.The way you want to take action is very important for this community because you are playing a very important role for the community here. Each of your steps is very valuable for the community.
I think that if you take the steps and start the above activities, then it will play a very important role for this community.I hope you start the activities soon.
Best Regards - xupon
This should be hung on a wall so that it would be the first thing a Steemian sees when he/she wakes up in the morning. Mutual support is key on this platform.
I think I can called this your post as "Steemit in a post"
Or the "Epistle of steemit"
Anyways, At times disapointment can also be a contributing factor to those seeking another way of earning.
Imagine a post, that you personally accorded respect, you know (maybe in your mind) that this is it but such post ends in an uninteresting way.
Steemit should find a way for providing the new steemians an head start, it helps.
Thanks for the post.
Some good points there bro, I see no reason why big influencers wouldn't want their fanbase on more platforms. It is just a way to increase your revenue even more potentially.
I see abuse of power as a big issue here. People who can earn enough just by upvoting their own post won't bother with content curation. If Steemit doesn't find a fix for this we can't expect to see a lot of people joining any time soon.
Sadly enough, I don't have the slightest clue what would fix this issue but I think it is important to point out the flaws.
I always interact with people on my posts (Only ignore bots).
I pray my exams to end and I would be able to post again. I have a couple of funny ideas lol.
I want to buy a car to my brother with steem money on birthday lol.
Agreed and when we get communities it will be a lot more beneficial for you to have built a group of people on steemit. I do think changes are coming.
Yah, I'm waiting eagerly for the communities update.
It'd be really good and will provide much better organization
Yea, I think it will better enable the long-tail of Steemit content. Since people will be able to out-perform within their little niches and communities.
Buen post señorito acido, soy su fan number uno <3
Interaction is quite important in order to build up audience, I totally agree with you. However, I believe there are still a lot of hiccups to account creation which can be a major stumbling block to bringing more people on the platform. Even the steeminvite option often times doesn't work without hitches.
I have a Twitter account of about seven thousand followers and I have been sharing some of my contents with my followers, only a few have been able to set up account out of which very few stayed on the platform. There is a lot of work still to be done in retaining users on the platform, hopefully the next hardfork will do something positive in that aspect.
For sure!
Pretty much my biggest pet hate is a load of comments on a post, without a single response.
Greed, laziness, and a bunch of other things are the negative reasons.
If you have a large account, you might be able to get away with this, but it's still gonna look shit for you.
I've had words with a few people, mainly because they are discussing engagement, or shilling themselves to be awesome for Steemit, and yet doing 0 of that they speak of in their blogs.
As a small account, it is essential to get through as many replies as possible / that are worthy of a response. This is where you will pick up and keep followers.
Cheers!
I just renewed my delegation of SP from blocktrades a day ago and usually I choose to have it for 90 days but it was the first time I faltered because it costs an arm and a leg to rent SP.
I dont nearly earn in my posts to be able to cover almost 70 SBD to renew it and I don't self vote (although I don't see anything wrong with that except if you self vote yourself to 92%) although I do a lot of curation, more of votes is spread through communities that I support.
I am not complaining because it was my choice to do all of these and to run a loss on my rental of delegations because there is more to life in Steem than ROI.
One thing that I am proud for now is that I respond to all comments in my post. I get about 10-as high as 40 comments that I reply to and upvote all good comments.
Knowing the dust threshold I need to make sure that my upvote on a comment is at least 0.03 so that on payout it will still reach more than 0.02.
This is my way to reward those that take the time to read and comment on my thoughts. This is my way to try to increase their stake.
I am no whale though as I am simply a minnow who rents delegations in the hope that by paying it forward I am able to make the platform better,
It's wise to invite your fans and friends and grow up together. the number of users is growing, and of course whales and group curators can not help everyone, each of us. There will always be those who go unnoticed. And so creating your own community, whose members grow together, support each other-it's great. You just need to forget about your own benefits for a while and act as a team. Thank you for your group coaching OCD, you give me great help at the time. And of course, ignorance of English is a disadvantage, but it is not a global disadvantage. I am not a native speaker, I write and speak with an interpreter. However, if you make an effort to work again and again to improve their knowledge and level, even without knowing the language at 100% you can write a great text. The Internet gives you a million options, just take them and use them for good. I think so.
Very instructive your post. It is very true that growing up in Steemit takes time and effort, it is necessary above all to be creative, to have very good material, to know the subject of which you are talking in depth, to publish good images, to know how to choose the tags, I have noticed that some tags do not nobody reads, I noticed that many times I publish and I get the impression that my post is not read. Other times I have a little more voters. I will follow you and above all I will follow your advice to interact with my followers.
Greetings from Maracay, Venezuela, South America.
Muy instructivo su post. Es muy cierto que crecer en Steemit lleva tiempo y esfuerzo, se necesita sobre todo ser creativo, tener muy buen material, conocer el tema del cual estas hablando a fondo, publicar buenas imagenes, saber escoger los tag, he notado que algunos tag no los lee nadie, he notado que muchas veces publico y me da la impresion de que mi post no es leido. Otras veces tengo un poquito mas de votantes. Voy a seguirte y sobre todo voy a seguir tus consejos de interactuar con mis seguidores.
Saludos desde Maracay, Venezuela, South America.
Hola amigo. Escribelos posts originales y recibe mis votes del UBI por su efuerzo. Uno por día al azar, ya que hay muchos que yo voto en.
gracias amigos, en eso andamos, siempre innovando, tratando de hacerlo cada dia mejor.
I know, I know, a lot of investors and curators have lately given up on curating and are delegating to bidbots, etc, for maximum profits, but there are still some around and hopefully with some changes around the corner they will be incentivized to curate once again.
There are people here on this platform who only care about themselves and not about others, they deligate to bots and do various things that shouldn't take place, instead we should help each other grow in this platform. We should support newcomers, we should reward only those posts which are worth that, we shouldn't favour anyone or return favours.
Supporting each other and giving fair rewards can help this platform grow.
completely agree, the language barrier is an issue but like you said Hivemind should help all this and isn't the whole point of this blockchain to connect likeminded people from all around the world? Negative reinforcement (flagging users who have cocked up once or twice 24/7) will win the battle, but Positive reinforcment (@acidyo 's plan of flag then if learned or changed upvote) will win the war of making this platform the next evolution in human social media. Rock on man and will follow this advice from this day forward
I am very interactive on my own and other posts and I am hopeful that those are us who support each other will grow together and one day we will also be able to say
Not only that but the interaction is the only thing that keeps me going through the hard times. It can seem a bit of a roller coaster ride at times but, knowing that there are people on the same ride riding with you makes a huge difference, in my opinion.
I don't really have a following on other platforms so can't bring people over but I am introducing anyone I meet who wants to listen, to Steemit. 😊
excelente coment. That is the way. Congratulation. I began to folow you.
Gretting from Maracay, Venezuela, South America.
Thank you @yokondap. 😊
Very informative blog . Yes steemit is our own platform which we can share our experiences and openions and we can earn alot of money . Other social media platforms are selfish they have not rewards to their users but steemit can do.
It's a really great article by you buddy @acidyo and i personally think that it's right to invite people from ourbother social media platforms because it's a good way to promote Steemit and our Content also,
Many people joined Steemit for earning extra bucks but they got failed because they didn't even try to be a part of community, instead of that they just keep Upvoting their own Comments and posts with their nearly $0.00 power upvote,
Thanks for telling about your witness,i upvoted that and also going to add that in my good witness list that i post at the end of my each post to bring awareness about steem witnesses 😇
i agree, the registration process takes much more time, this way users loose interest or even forget that they have created an account in steemit too... the registration process should be instant, this will help steem grow and gain more users in no time..
Hahaha.. Posts looking like grave yards yet they are having a lot of votes are all over this platform. You have a point everyone on the platform has got to reflect upon for the betterment of steemit which we all wish to grow a lot bigger. Supporting the good commentors builds a loyal fanbase which is indeed going to grow with you on steemit. Comments add value to steemit as they increase activity on your blog. And we should indeed take advantage of the people we interact with on other platforms, influencing them to come on steemit to increase the value of our posts.
A great deal of financial specialists and keepers have recently abandoned curating and are appointing to bidbots, and so on, for most extreme benefits, however there are still some around and ideally with a few changes around the bend they will be boosted to clergyman indeed.
There are individuals here on this stage who just think about themselves and not about others, they deligate to bots and do different things that shouldn't occur, rather we should enable each other to develop in this stage. We should bolster newcomers, we should compensate just those posts which are justified regardless of that, we shouldn't support anybody or return favors.
Supporting each other and giving reasonable prizes can enable this stage to develop.
All things considered, am not in the least stressed by the bots or extremely useless substance acquiring to such an extent. Steemit is by plan a framework that advances and shows signs of improvement advancing quality substance and commitment to the group. It's still in the very begining stages and it will require investment to weed out the bots and spammers. They may get immense rewards now yet sooner or later get useless. So do what you continue doing - that is composing and posting quality stuff, voting in favor of what is commendable, and vitally hailing what isn't!
Just dropping by to say a huge thank you for the Bid Bot tool you created - it's perfect for judging when to send a bid - and more importantly when to leave well alone because you will loose out. Interesting post about curation too - I did not realise this.
I agree with you completely..
And how does that instant account creation happen, it could help a lot of people.
The time it takes to register an account on steemit can sometimes make the users disinterested in it. If an account can be created instantly, that'll help a lot in bringing more people to steemit
Thanks for creating and sharing your free tool @acidyo hopefully this will help a lot of us moving forward figure out what we should regarding upvoting our own post(s). I had until recently been the opposite and not upvoted anything I posted. I'll see if after time this starts to help me or not. Have you noticed a difference in the past month since switching your method?
You have a point there, one has to carry along its followers, its really a way that can help on the long run. Bring them over and keep them
Why don't they just disable the feature of voting oneself? That way, at least everybody has to vote for other people
Most people post for money and don't really care about replying even if the need to...
I also observe you don't really reply some comments to
Is that so ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Yeah.....
Can't always get to all of them. :)
I like to try to comment and upvote every good interaction on what I post but I'm limited by my upvote value, but it has been slowly growing over time.
I don't really have a following outside of steem because I started here but I do try to share my posts or other people's post when appropriate outside of steem groups on discord and telegram, I've posted a few things here and there on Reddit, Twitter and Facebook, with Facebook I got a few friends interested in signing up and they are in the process of getting their accounts 😏
spammer dangerous for every platform ..... YouTube now very hard i think main reason spammer.....spammer always doing spamming and break rules then its bad for him also us.
some spammer now on steemit....they are copy other people comment and past his own name.
By your post, I come to know some important information. Thank you @acidyo
I always reply to every comment I get and I upvote it. I mean, my upvote is small, but at least I show some form of appreciation to my followers. Engagement is important and I try to do that. As for sharing your posts on other social media, I think it's a great idea and it never came to my mind. I guess more people should be doing it to have more interaction on this platform. I've noticed some people with bigger audiencies on other platforms never even notify their followers that they are also posting on Steemit.
Honestly Steemit is becoming boring. I recently had to unfollow a lot of people recently that turned steemit to a dump yard. They just post, make hundreds of dollars and go without replying comments or interacting. Most of them don't even drop post that is communicable. So sad.. Please what is hivemind?
The thing is the reason why most high earning users does not get comments or engagement is because they're posting to climb up the ranks with bid bot and earn, rather than engage really.
However If I do not like a post I don't read at all why commenting, when you know the topic didn't interest you?
Thats what were resorting to now using bid bot to get popular, well it's a decentralized system, I wasn't expecting anything more than I should.
I think the impression why people join steemit is to make money. When many people heard of Steemit, what they heard is that they will get reward whenever the post
Many of these content creators seem to lack interactivity on their posts which often can lead to less votes being given to those posts...I think I need to work on this ...
This is a very educative post I would sure go a long way in improving my blogging performance and most of all would find a way to popularise my steemit blog on other social platform ...you should taught me that in your last post...
Awesome post
you have discussed some important issues and here is an important point to witness. I think there will be a lot of content from where I will be present from here, and this committee will present some updated activities through it.
I don't really have a following outside of steem because I started here but I do try to share my posts or other people's post when appropriate outside of steem groups on discord and telegram, I've posted a few things here and there on Reddit, Twitter and Facebook, with Facebook I got a few friends interested in signing up and they are in the process of getting their accounts
Yea I think the approach you have decided to use is simply the best and trust ne it works wonders. Simply ignoring them would tell them that they are busy wasting their time and in no time, they would learn to do the right thing. When you keep flagging them, they enjoy the attention you give to them and so continue.
Talking about steem invite, I have never used that app and don't even know how to go about it. Would try to give it a try as onboardingnhas been quite difficult for me lately . It doesn't cost much so why not.
Those who have a large fan base in other platforms should really try to help populate this platform by advertising steem all around. Thinking of starting up a steemit campaign on my Facebook page which I would get to post updates here on steemit.
I don't really have any other social media to advertise my blog on. So I'm really stuck just hanging around with different people here, and hoping they'll want to check me out. Luckily, it seems to be working well enough.
I wish I had more comment engagement though. I get a decent amount of somewhat consistent votes on my posts, but I really don't get as many comments as I'd like.
As much as I really want everything not to be about the money, in order to drum up more comments, in my footer I even openly offer upvotes to literally any commenter on my blog.
Still though, the number of comments never even approaches the number of votes... and that makes me sad.
Since I have been in Steemit and have been active in it for quite some time.While I do like the advice of yours. Well being here and learning constantly of these new world seemed perfect for me.While have seen few quitting as well as they were not getting what they expected from here.
Everything takes time in order to be at a good place.While followers are indeed a crucial part out in here.They do mean a lot at the end of the day.
It's definitely difficult to wade through the spam comments and engage with loyal followers though. There are a few people that comment on some of my steepshot posts more regularly than others. I think one large problem (or maybe temporary hurdle) is that there just isn't the 'audience' available for many topics (other than crypto trend analysis). It's a very niche market on here currently.
I've created accounts for a few of my friends through the python-wallet stuff -- I'll try to check out the steeminvite instead -- this sounds easier. Thanks for the heads up.
If you ask me, I will say it is a win - win situation here. Preaching steemit on your existing social platforms increases your fan base on steemit and more people especially influential people on steemit means a better fortune for all steamians.
WITNESS is a very important subject for this community because voting depends on Wikinews and the words that you say are important because it's very important to discuss related issues and voting issues, because this is dependent on the company's return and its full potential Depending on voting.For each community, some witness are important because their profile stands differently because their profiles are marked differently. I think the topic you discussed is a good guide for the community.
Well, am not at all worried by the bots or really worthless content earning so much. Steemit is by design a system that evolves and gets better promoting quality content and contribution to the community. It's still in the very begining stages and it will take time to weed out the bots and spammers. They may get huge rewards now but at some point get worthless. So do what you keep doing - that is writing and posting quality stuff, voting for what is worthy, and importantly flagging what is not!