Talking about Steem on Steem, why not? ;) I get your point obviously and seeing the same old, same old warmed up again and again, who really wants to see that?
Rewarding positive content about Steem, especially from angles people haven't really looked at, is valuable. And if that author is even a believer in Steem, powering up more Steem and hodling it to the end, I'd rather see that rewarded 10x, than someone just coming to Steem, to post content that is completely irrelevant, simply for the rewards.
There will always be people who write to benefit from the system: you saw that with dmania, dlive, dtube and currently even with threespeak. That doesn't mean everyone posting there is just doing it for the money, but high paying rewards are usually a very good incentive to get people to do something.
Ultimately, it should be the goal of all stakeholders, to give people those incentives that are benefiting our platform & currency at the same time, as they reward those authors/contributors. Which is why I want to see people talking about Steem, or even better: developing projects, communities or even businesses on Steem.
Anyway, good post!
hey ty for reading
in reply, I am trying to make a distinction between content that is " the same old, same old warmed up again and again" and a fresh new perspective. what do you consider content that is "completely irrelevant"?
Im saying we shouldnt reward content based on writer or subject alone. If a person writes about steem every single post three times a day, and gets huge votes every single time without saying anything new, should we be rewarding them?
so what if they wax on eloquently and makes it seem important. to me thats just waffle. the same old warmed up content is still not providing value if it just says, "steem is great, we are working on problems, rah rah rah", with no attempt to address the issues or explain the process.
I dont care how amazing the writing is, if the message isn't new, it stinks. Sure it's dressed up in a slightly different style and has a cute anecdote so people think its different information. oh ya and its botted so the payout is incredible. people vote on it and think it MUST be great content. what makes it unique from the post four hours ago?
talking about steem is fine as long as people are saying something NEW, and not writing just to get a payout. I'm asking curators to be a bit more discriminating in what they vote for, and stop jumping on the high post payout bandwagon for profits.
As you say, people writing about, "developing projects, communities or even businesses on Steem" - agree, this is worth while. This is worth paying for.
This is the distinction I would like curators to be making.