I appreciate it. I just got my laptops and hard drives after they had been on a ship for the past 2-3 months. I'm excited about sharing a bunch of photography. I guess what gets me riled a little is that people have nothing better to do than down vote people with too many rewards? I could care less how much others are making. Some of my favorite content producers on here used to upvote to the max. It's their right. @cardboard is acting like it's the same as reddit. But I don't see anyone on reddit down voting anyone because their too wealthy... I only see people down voting the actual content they dislike. Curious what they don't about this photo? Lol
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Hey Justin, good to see you back! I randomly came across this and hate that this is what you had to come back to, but I think it’s important to understand that downvotes are a way to balance the shared rewards pool. So it’s not about downvoting someone due to being “too wealthy” it’s trying to break the habit of bought votes which are taking more than their fair share of the shared pool.
It’s not about the photo, the photo is beautiful. The issue is that votes were bought rather than letting the community choose how the shared pool will be allocated.
I understand things were different before and it’s a bit weird to come back to, but please rest assured it’s not about your content, rather about finding a balance of where the inflation should go.
Feel free to reach out to me on discord if you have any other questions.
Thanks, just kind of stinks that the community is so obscure and confusing for the average person. No announcements, banners or anything upon logging in again that things had changed. In the meantime looks like I just wasted 300 Steem. Seriously demotivating.
There were many announcements of the changes during but yes if you don’t know to go look for them how would you know, right?
I totally get your frustration and sent you over the 300 STEEM to replace what you lost as I know the kind of content creator you are.
Currently the new Steem is one where you don’t have to buy votes, and where organic manual curation is up.. I think if you post as you did before without buying votes you will notice a big change. And I hope you give it a try.
Oh wow, you didn't need to do that Justine. If this post ends up making anything I'll send it back. I was just in all seriousness surprised by all of this response on something I had done for months and months and never a whisper in my comments that it was "wrong", then when I was excited to be back it felt like a door was slammed in my face. Anyway, I have a new camera, living in a new continent, and have a big backlog of photos from traveling this summer to share on here.
Happy to do it. And yes I know you are just doing what you had done previously and yes previous it was just something that was accepted (even if it wasn’t ideal) due to there being flaws in the system.
There was a hardfork that changed some of the economic changes which allowed for organic curation to be profitable and therefore more appealing. So far what I have seen is a lot of great content being rewarded and much more manual curation.
Also there has been a very strong push to stop the overuse of vote selling systems as they don’t add much value. The response to that is you will see the trending page is more diverse and it is a lower threshold to get trending, and organically get there.
There have been a lot of things that have changed, including tribes where you can earn additional tokens over and above the STEEM on your content. You can see them on steempeak dropdown menu under “tribes”, but I would suggest you start using the “creativecoin” and “palnet” tags too for your photography posts. You will earn even more that way 🙂 Also you can use more than 5 tags on steempeak to make room for the tribes tags.
Give it a try. Post your stunning photography without buying votes and just see how it goes, i think you’ll be motivated by the response.
Cool thank you very much. Would the @steempeak posts be the best place to read a summary of changes and addition of tribes, or just read the Steemit blog posts?
Tribes are something that are run by on a tech level by Steem Engine, but each has their own set up. Think of them as small communities with their own token and front end. You can see each tribe on steempeak and they generally have a post in their promoted section that will link you to their admin account. Then maybe reach out in discord for questions to them or generally there is a post linked in their token information on steem-engine.com.
Boom!
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Wow. Super kind of you to have sent him the 300 steem.
I am interested to hear your thoughts a month down the track as to how do you see it going? Seems in the right direction to me. There are still onboarding issues with complexity in bringing people over (I could count on one hand the number I have managed to bring over from 80k followers elsewhere).