You'd be surprised how little investment it takes to encourage someone to take this platform seriously and starts investing effort and time into the community engagement and improving the quality of content.
I have an idea :D
Show people that you trust them, support them without asking them to return the favor, and your trust in humanity will get restored
This is what I am hoping would happen with the delegation idea but, the ones that receive the delegation need to be above board. That way, they will find how to distribute it well to people who deserve/earn etc.
i am glad you guys are doing this though as I think there is going to be a lot of future in it that will pay off for you.
If you have the ear of the powers to be, this is the guy you can't go wrong with: @costanza
The Sports Betting Community is his brainchild. Take a look at the post he wrote 5 months ago. His support for the promising steemians has just increased since that time.
It already does. Having a vibrant community of like-minded people is worth a lot.
It is pretty amazing how important a community is and how few people treat it with respect. Engagement is nearly all down to the people, not the money.
As told before, I am blessed with some free delegation. But I do know that the people who did delegate the power are taking a close look on my actions! I am doing my utmost best to prove to them that I am worth it :)
The problem we as a community are facing is that our niche really detracts some people. Betting and gambling are still placed in some dark corner, lost of people do it, but few dare to admit it! Being afraid that people will change their mind about them!
But for the more serious ones, there is a lot of comparision between betting, investing and maybe even steem.
For all three counts that don't put more money into then you can loose!
I do think that in the past year more people got into trouble by investing into cryptos than placing bets on sports!
If we would have been a sewing club, it would have been much easier to get some support :)
We do feel that it is important to educate our member to become great Steemians, regardless of the content about which they are writing!
The more niches are available on the platform, the more people would feel at home!
For us it not about making a profit from the community! Otherwise we would have already stopped! Also all power the bots earns is invested back into it! We do like creating and supporting the community. It is great to see something grow!
It is our little baby :)
I think this will change with communities. You guys will be able to have your own and the 'walls' will mean a little more feeling of privacy if tat makes sense.
It does 😁
For once I do want to try to be a front runner in stead of feeling sorry that we didn’t go for it!
And like @beat-the-bookies wrote: if it fails we had a blast and ae gained some friends, which is more valuable than all the steem in the world!
Well @tarazkp still happy with your delegation of SP a while ago. Brought me to a new level and enthusiasm while writing my last posts. 🎉
@fullcoverbetting can you explain what you think why it is wrong following a curation trail?
@guchtere
Remy, well my 2 cents. It is not about good or wrong.
But most people following a curation trail don’t know what they will be voting on. The leader of the trail picks the posts and gets the most curation rewards from it.
Also most members within a curation trail are in there because, probably the curation trail could also upvote their posts, what for some would be like hitting the jackpot!
I know that the idea behind it is genuine, just like the idea behind steem is, they just did underestimate the greed of people.
Just like using an autovoter, it decreases the level of interaction, which for me is utmost important!
I would always prefer a genuine comment above an upvote, but getting both is the max!
I still do all my upvotes manually because I don’t want to upvote every post from an author!
Still I would be trilled and happy if an influencer, like for instance @tarazkp would auto vote me 😁, just like I would do a happy dance when @curie would upvote a post of mine!
I do like my freedom of casting my votes.
Like I wrote in the beginning I don’t judge people who are taking part in a curation trail, it is just not my cup of tea! We all are trying to make the best out of it, here on Steem!
What’s your opinion on it! Do you follow one, which and why if I may ask!
@tarazkp what is your opinion about it?
@fullcoverbetting Thanks for your quick and long reply! Need to get in a daily standup now. Will reply later today.
Looking forward to it. Really hate those daily stand-ups :(
Well this one wasn't that bad actually. We had someone celebrating his birthday with some cake 🎉
About the trail, you're right the curator is earning the most. But for example I follow @curie and I like what they're doing with their selection on curators and they pay their curators as far as I know? So I could follow them and vote manually or use the trail. And another example during my trip in NZ from wich I just returned (still creating my travel blogs they are a little behind), I wasn't able to be all the time on Steemit. But following a trail feels better for me then leaving my SP doing nothing.
But thumbs up about doing this al manually, your doing a perfect job!
And you're for sure right about getting an upvote plus a comment is the best! The (travel) blogs I got some reactions at my story do make you feel better than getting an upvote .
Remy,
I do fully understand that doing nothing is the worst thing to do. As we speak I am writing a post about what to do with your steem power during a holiday.
I also have added the curation trail!
I could give you the highlights but than I would spoil the fun :)
Looking forward to your posting about the NZ trip. The kids are a little bit to young to undertake such a journey!
Cheers,
Peter