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    Well, I don't know if I would categorize curation as non-existent (even five upvotes, while low, is something), but it sounds like the bigger question is, are we waiting for Musing to curate?

    I can't speak for everyone else, but in my case, I am and I'm not.

    I've been trying to continue to curate as I did prior to Musing effectively shutting down upvotes thanks to the loss of their delegation from Steemit. However, my curation rewards will not get the return they were with Musing upvoting, too. So, I think I should continue to try to curate, but I'm also needing to adjust how I do that, which affects the percentage I upvote and then how often I can upvote.

    Now that Musing's voting power is back to 100%, I hope they decide to return to curating soon, even without the delegation. It would be like it was before they had it.

    I don't like to leave anything I upvote with less than $0.03, especially a post, comment, question or answer that isn't likely to get more, but that isn't necessarily the case where I feel more upvoting will occur. So, there is some strategy involved beyond once I've determined if I will curate something or not.

    A couple of reasons why Steemhunt and other dApps might be enjoying more success with user curation than what Musing has been able to muster, especially now:

    —Steemhunt, Dtube, and some other dApps have been around longer. in some cases, quite a bit longer. Steemhunt is over a year old (10-2017) and also received a large delegation back in July of last year. So, it's had more time to create a following, and it's also had an opportunity to reward users longer, since Steemhunt also curates.

    Meanwhile, Musing came on board in May of last year and received a delegation back at the end of October. That means it had it for less than three months before it was revoked. While I believe we saw some sort of uptick in users over that period, it's not a whole lot of time to build an active community, especially among those who were attracted to the upvotes, and not necessarily committed to the platform. It can take time for that to happen unless a user is naturally inclined to asking questions and providing answers.

    —In some ways, answers and questions can be harder to gauge what to upvote and what not to upvote, and then decide how much. There is a value factor that is rather undefined, but seems to drive what happens on the STEEM blockchain regardless. I think we instinctually upvote posts more frequently and with more Voting Power than we do comments, or for that matter, answers and questions, because we have an idea of how long each of that takes, how well they're written, what we get out of them, etc.

    So, that could be coming into play, too, along Musing being a short time dApp, with a smaller following, potentially comprised of a higher percentage of newer users, who might still need to be schooled in the ways of curation, and who are content to receive a Musing upvote in and of itself.

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    What I would say about influencers is that some of them have pull and others don't, just like any other marketing strategy. What an influencer might be able to do for one product is not a guarantee they'll be able to duplicate it every time for others. There are too many variables, and followers of influencers aren't all automatons. Even if they do like the influencer, or other products they've showcased/backed, doesn't mean they will like them all.

    So, it's going to depend on the influencer, their base, the kinds of products, the background, reason for being influential, and expertise of the influencer, the enthusiasm of the endorsement, what the companies working with the influencer do with the buzz they do get, etc.

    That said, people do like having someone they trust recommend products and services. That's why word of mouth, even in this day and age of the Internet, is still king when it comes to marketing. Reviews and influencers tend to be the digital version of this, but I think we're still more likely to try something a friend or family member suggests before we're going to trust folks we don't know.

    I don't tail any because I don't know any influencers in real life. I've been on both side of the marketing fence, and so I have some understanding of how things work, and mostly don't work. If the influencer has some expertise in what they're trying to endorse, that's a little better than if they're an Instagram celebrity hyping something that has nothing to do with why they're a celebrity.

    In any marketing endeavor, targeting and drilling down to folks who are actually interested in any given item or product is becoming the norm, rather than any sort of shotgun approach. There could be a myriad of reasons why an influencer is followed, and a lot of it will have little to do with the endorsements. If there's a million people following an influencer, it's likely only 10,000-20,000 (1-2%) of those folks will be interested in any given item at any given time, and that will be spread over many different items.

    In other words, an influencer's audience can be fractured into smaller groups just like any other.

    So, the key to using an influencer becomes only trying to market what that influencer is specifically known and trusted for. Don't have a fitness model trying to sell diapers. Might work, but more likely, it won't, unless somehow she is also a trusted source for diapers.

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    According to different sources I've read, there are more men in the world than women. However, depending on which country you live in, this ratio could be reversed.

    According to the 2017 estimate by the CIA's World Factbook, the ratio of men to women in the world was 1.015 : 1. Or, for every 100 women, there were 101.5 men. In terms of total worldwide population, there were a little over 55 million more men.

    As previously stated, this ratio will change depending on what country you live in, but it is also important to note that there are significant differences depending on age, as well. I mention this because there are typical ages where males and females look to be married, and so the male to female ratio per country in that age range becomes important. It also may be why the perception persists that there are more women than men.

    However, worldwide, the ratio of males to females is 1.03 : 1 at birth, then bumps up immediately to 1.07 : 1 after birth and through age 24. From age 25 on, though, the male advantage declines significantly, with the 25-54 age range falling to 1.02 : 1, followed by a complete reversal at 55 years and over, where women outnumber men 1.14 : 1.

    What causes this reversal? As others have noted, there are plenty of different factors, which include the male propensity to take part in wars, mortal violence, hard manual labor, accidents and other risky behaviors, such as excessive drinking, smoking, drugs, overeating, etc.

    If these activities don't kill males in the earlier stages of life, they still tend to shorten life expectancy. Because of this, and no doubt other hereditary, environmental and biological factors, women generally will outlive men by four years (71-67).

    It should be noted here that even with demographics, worldwide, the number of men and women is within a percentage point, (0.8%), meaning that aside from what might be happening locally, the balance male to female is still relatively close.

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     6 years ago  
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      I think the answer is, you can't.

      The Musing text box doesn't appear to accept html commands. Something like this—Google—only shows up as text rather than a link.

      Images must be online or modified through Steemit (thus providing an online link).

      Neither does it appear to work in markdown, either: Pixabay.

      I have to say, though, it would be very useful, and if I'm missing something and someone has figured out, I'd be interested to know how, too.

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        In this situation, people are ignoring the kid, but still watch in shock. And as weapon, you can picture a very dangerous and clearly sharp knife.

        But like I said to the other responder, if you hurt the kid, people might see you as the bad guy, because they all think that anyone that hurts a kid, even when that kid is clearly the bad guy, is a bad person.

        I should have put on there, that everybody is seeing the incident but are too scared to be labeled as someone who hurts kids.

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          Yeah, that is the obvious choice, but people are not really found on people hurting kids. So you would have people around you trying to hurt you for hurting a kid. Even if the kid is the bad guy in this situation, people don't really think that logic. There is were the complexity lies.

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            Hmmm I guess I have to wait before that kid hurts someone else. Hopefully not fatal but just enough to convince people that some intervention must happen.

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            I would stop the kid no matter what, and fight anybody who has a problem with it. Being a kid isn't an excuse for hurting people even when it's socially acceptable.

            But in this situation, the kid is already attacking someone, so it's obvious that he is doing something bad.

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