@nonameslefttouse joining earlier made earning from zero much easier. Today it is almost impossible to make decent upvotes starting from zero without doing most of those things on the list. When you joined there were not even a hundred thousand users, no bid bots, and very few posts a day. Today there are over a million users, tons of bid bots, and hundreds of thousands of posts a day. The system we have now simply does not work for new or even most established authors without intense effort and collaboration. Occasionally we may see exceptions and exceptions will not carry us as a platform. Systems making it easy to work together will.
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Don't lie to me, Jerry. It was NOT easier to come here and blog for 6 cent STEEM. We had no idea back then if the the value would ever rise. If I earned a dollar on a post, it was worth a dollar and that was that.
The main reason why it's so difficult to earn now for new people is because people like you convince them to delegate away their SP to bots or crazy ideas like this in the post above. That concentrates 1000's of eyes into one paid vote, then these bloggers sit around and wonder why nobody is looking, all while not realizing they paid 1000's of people to look away when they purchase that vote.
You'd think with 1000000 accounts, getting eyes on the work would be easier now, but you folks threw the wrench in the works.
Please don't try to tell me it was easier back in the day though. I came back in December after a five month break and earned 6000-7000 SP since then. Never used a bot, none of that other nonsense. I simply produce a blog some people seem to be interested in. You can see by the amount of comments on previous posts, they're alive and looking. Again, it was not easy at the start and it hasn't been easy lately. Please don't tell me it's been smooth sailing because it hasn't. This took a lot of work. People these days come and look for the shortcuts offered and fail. That's their fault and partially yours for making failure easier to accomplish.
P.S. Your act of purchasing votes pushed another bloggers visibility aside, that trickles all the way down to the bottom. People do not stand a chance to ever grow because of this behavior. I've also flagged this post after making a few discoveries that lead me to believe a lot of people could lose money here with your little plan, while you take their hard earned STEEM. Much of what you wrote here today appears to be directed towards the novice crowd who at times can be a little naive and not realize your post here today is an advertisement disguised as a helpful article. You stand to make money while it seems like they will lose some and it might be a staggering amount if they are not careful. Also, you're attempting to mislead me with this talk of "working together" when it's clear nothing you said here today will help anyone but yourself.
Definitely the right words to say @nonameslefttouse. It's never easy back then and it's never easy up to now.
There are over 1 million accounts Jerry, not 1 million users. It's more likely that there are a few hundred thousand users with a small number of those users holding many accounts.
Very true.