Here is the news
Crypto is having another mini boom with Bitcoin nearing $9000 again. Steem and SBD are up a bit and well up on a month ago. Still not looking good compared to this time last year. This has not really affected how Steem ranks against other coins. It is still around 80th place. As long as the price does not suddenly rocket I plan to buy more soon.
From @coingecko
@Steemit and @steemmonsters are up a bit in the @stateofthedapps chart. The latter was showing over 4000 active users earlier in the week. I wonder how many of those use the social aspects of Steem? I keep saying the site should incorporate some social stuff such as sharing battles in posts.
#FollowFriday
I still do not see many people using this tag, but I will keep plugging away as I think it has value to the greater community.
- @ashleypox is an artist who had a spectacularly successful introduction post this week thanks to some curation projects. I hope she does not expect that every time. It is good to see that a new user can trend, if that actually gains them followers.
- @peteopolis is also new. He is really into Lego. That is a big on-line community who could be using Steem.
- @artistivip is another artist who managed to lose control of a previous account. We have to be really careful with our keys. If there is any risk someone has yours then change them and keep a safe copy.
- @atma.love is a spiritual British guy living in Bulgaria.
I found all the above thanks to @slobberchops who seeks out interesting new Steemians. You should check out who shares your interests to have more cool posts in your feed. A friend of mine has just joined Steem, but not posted yet. Stay tuned...
The Doghouse
As usual I have been seeing some crap on Steem thanks to the @steemflagrewards team seeking it out. This week we feature @eii who is posting many times per day. It is all single photos based around a large set of hashtags that they list in the posts. I see very few other people using these. They are making a couple of hundred Steem each month for little effort. They posted last year about getting to minnow mostly using bots. They should know that is no longer acceptable behaviour. This is part of why we get free downvotes so that we can return their rewards to the pool whilst reducing their incentive to continue like this.
They seem to hand out a lot of tribe tokens, but I assume they are earning a fair few of those too. They even gave me some BEER! I know the tribes can blacklist accounts to stop them earning.
Looks at the transactions on some of the bots they use I find some other accounts doing much the same. Examples are @bonp and @omp.
They buy multiple votes on each of these from various bots. It looks like the return on this is not too bad.
I will mention @fersher who is one of a set of accounts runs by an old adversary of mine (see @stimialiti @atempt @slowgrow). They recently got a 1000 SP delegation from someone who likes to encourage disruption of Steem. I get frequent downvotes from this lot, but even with this delegation they struggle to take a cent off my posts and a single vote from certain other people more than cancels them out. They do not dare to post and will probably continue like this even though their rewards are tiny. Such a waste of effort.
Closing words
Despite the relatively low Steem price and seeing all this abuse I am still upbeat about Steem. I see it as having great potential and it may only take a few key people joining up to make it go viral. We are the pioneers and we can help that to happen. Keep telling the world what they are missing out on. I really do not mind spreading the rewards wider as long as they go to those who work for them.
Steem on!
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Cheers good post - some good looking newbies, and I just unleashed a few DVs on those photos!
We can except a lot more if the price keeps rising!
We need to deal with the problems now to get more people on the right path. If thousands more suddenly sign up it could get wild.
It could take some effort for sure!
eli's just sent me some beer, I think they've got the message, hopefully!
They are still buying votes as of a couple of hours ago. May take a few more hints.
Billions will be signing up @steevc (in time)
We can hope so, but it will definitely get interesting when so many do as it may be impossible to deal with spam. We have to build the tools for that now.
I think a proper reputation system would take care of that. Have you read @adicted's posts re.Reputation?
Reputation is broken when you can boost it with self-voted and bots. Some have managed to get to a level where nobody else can reduce their rep. I feel I have earned mine.
yes!! No reason to lose hope at all, Steem wise we are more healthy that ever I guess. It is just a matter of putting the pieces together
good job steev! I'l be checking out these followfriday nominations now!
Enjoy! It's always good to see new, cool people on Steem. They need some encouragement.
definitely!
Will be nice to finaly see some exicitment about Steem.
Interesting that the numbers are up on @stateofthedapps!
Those downvotes are just irritating, I get some worthless from time to time but learned to ignore them :)
There are people who just like to stir things up. I see lots of accounts with just 15SP giving 10% downvotes. That does nothing significant to your rewards, but I can appreciate it may worry some new users. This is one of the problems with the freedom Steem offers, but we don't want to lose that.
Love 'The Doghouse' section, keep it going and let people know about all the crap we have to deal with. We don't have to.. but if we don't then it will be a bigger mess than it already is.
Exactly. We have to act now before Steem gets too bid to patrol. Maybe others will follow my lead. There's so much downvote power not being used.
I have been looking at the markets less and less frequently these days. I was really shocked when I finally did look and I saw STEEM touching the $.19 mark. Then it quickly fell again. Thankfully, it hasn't dropped back down to $.12 yet.
It's been dropping gradually since that peak, but I hope it will settle a bit higher than before. I am sure it is largely down to speculators rather than people actually wanting to invest in the Steem platform. That is what we need right now. I will buy more soon and the lower price helps with that.
Yay!
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