Peace
I have been farming for automated votes lately. Initially, it was just to show, how easy the current 'automated curation' can be gamed. But after a while, I am beginning to like it; It's just too easy.
This morning I caught myself being afraid to lose those votes. I got corrupted.
Steem used to be unpredictable, now I can calculate my weekly earnings in Steem. My rewards depend on how often I post, who I voted for in between, how much Steem Power I have, where I post, but not what I actually post - Had I gone through the trouble of taking 1000 pictures of the same fucking flower last summer, I would have enough material to quite literally (flower) farm the soul out of Steem. I haven't though and I fear getting blacklisted by those bots now.
I don't feel like putting much effort into posts or curation anymore, but now that I had a taste of those exploits, I don't want to stop farming either.
I blame linear rewards ( and my lack of discipline ).
It's incredibly frustrating.
I guess a lot of voting is automatic now. I know some people give me a vote every time regardless. I still want the real interaction here and I won't risk losing that
Real interactions on this platform are so valuable.
Maybe not in money..
I just transfered nearly all my interactions to this platform.
2 weeks ago I was many hours per day on youtube, instagram or a forum..
I was just accepting the things that bothered me..
Steem isn't perfect but has so much potential!
Greets :)
Amen to that. I don't care how much 'more' money can be made using whatever strategy if the end result is flawed in so many ways. When you're a small fish it won't help you in the long run and if you're a big fish there are better ways to get rich(er). I just stopped caring, stopped all my automated voting and now concentrate on the interaction and relations I have built, the money comes (almost) last.
I recently started using bots and no matter how successful I become at bot management I will probably upvote the heck out of legit people that come to my blog. When I was new and only had 15 steem power and was voting down to 8% voting power I did feel that my upvotes and comments did still matter. Even if steem and steem dollars couldn't be exchanged for "real" currency I'd still pick this site over Facebook. I'm still very bullish on this platform even if 90% of it is now automated. I'm surprised so many people are so willing to loan out their steem power.
Here is a readable version. - no thanks needed and don't worry, your eyes are functioning well.
Thanks for that.
T.Hanks
Wait a minute, I need a magnifying glass...
That was indeed a very small rant!
I used to have mixed feelings about those who vote me automatically. Until, I embraced the game that is "Steem Gathering".
No system where you rely on everyone else to "act right" will be successful anyway. I'm over it. :)
Thanks for the rant.
They need to stop the upvote bot , for real, we need to promote the good content.
da brauchte ich sogar eine Brille....lol*** sehr klein aber Oho.....
Can you explain more what you mean? I'm guessing you don't mean paying bid bots but using certain keywords that automatically get voted on?
It's much easier than that.
I am afraid they will just blacklist me and not change the algorithm, so I don't want to expose the full details here right now ;)
I thought I'd worked it out but doesn't seem they like me 😫
I understand and share your feelings about linear reward and I know you already knew that.
Da mein Kommentar irgendwie nicht ankam.. :
Ich freu mich für dich. :)
Hoffe jedoch auch, dass sich einige Probleme der Platform noch regeln.. sowie, dass du auch wieder Spaß an der Sache findest..
Hast du mal über einen 2. Account nachgedacht? Hast wahrscheinlich eh schon einen..
Dann könnte man das trennen, ist dann aber auch nicht mehr möglichst großer Profit..
Schönen Abend noch ;)
Still there is the possibility to combine the best of both worlds...
You'd have the votes + at least the impression having said something.
But that's lame.
Also you can rant + farm for votes.
Say something while pretending there are no problems whatsoever.
Glad you are here. I can't see/read what he posted. Let's listen instead. LOL
hahaha :D nice, really had to laugh :D
greets