Hello @queenmountain . I honestly think this promotion is nothing more than " pay to work " or attempt to "embrace the wind " and in no way influence the upvotes in any post , in view of what will make a difference in earnings $ in posts is not the promotion, but the voting whales.
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Yup it is all about the whales. Being that there are about 50 whales vs 70,000 users, well how do you capture their attention among a sea of posts? Among massive piles of paper? I don't think a Promotion feature is going to cut the cake. I am happy to hear that the Promotion Steem is going into a reserve account. I hope they eventually use the reserve Steem for something productive for this community.
We're talking about a centralized network , where the central power is in the whales. They who have the power to turn water into wine . Here you can have 1 million users , but who decides who will be in heaven or hell are the whales. That's what has to change and a " Promoted " button certainly will not change that .
Nicely put. In theory, Steemit is supposed to be decentralized. But in reality it does not seem to be that way.