Yes Schattenjaeger, I do it by my own too. I've been never voted up to the Steem–heaven, but I have the feeling, I did it by my own. It's a real good feeling. And by the way, Steemit is not easy for beginners, as you know. How should beginners understand vote guilds? Impossible. The vote–guilds divide the Steemians into parts. We are not going on to be one community. Vote guilds are building up classes of steemians.
BUT! There exists a german Guild. They guide strong voters into our small house. Without this guild, we german bloggers would be the poorhouse of Steemit. What do we learn from that? Building a system of equity is a real hard work, like Sisyphus has done. You will never touch the target. There always remains a part, running in the wrong direction.
My proposals for a better steemit-habitat:
First: Close down all bots. This is the only way to get more first class content.
Second: Shut down these bots. They are just cash machines. Redesign the vote process.
Third: Bots. Throw 'em out. Curation has been the smart idea – not maximation. Steemit blog is not a very sophisticated high end blog because of less reading. Pay for reading, not for voting. The meaning of curation is: read the matter–tell other's what you think about (means vote or scratch it without voting) and reply, off course.
It's just a beginner's opinion. I came in to collect readers, getting their attention, and then maybe get payed for work, if they like my stuff. Thank's for your attention.
BINGO! The whale's oligarchy has spoken.
I am banned from the whales vote list too, @schattenjaeger. We all know, what it means. The steem has nothing to do with free speech. It's just a playground for capitalists watching how nicely their personal writers are jumping over the fence. They are voting for the most fashionable jumps (whales fashion only).
Bye, bye, all you true and honest Steemians. Bye, bye German guild. Bye bye hope. I've made a mistake, wrote the wrong comment in the wrong posting and now I'm banned from the whale's voting circle. It's a very sad story for the German guild. Because they liked my postings very much. It's a very sad story for all the honest minnows too. Because they are so full of hope. I'm sorry for this too, you German guild, but now you see, how the system really works. Ah, you've knew it anyway! You are very smart people – smart, but without power. Bye to you all. I've have had a really good time at the steem blockchain. Very exciting and I told it to you in my stories, how exciting it has been.
But sorry, the Steem-chain has nothing to do with freedom of speech at all! It's just money, and how money usually works. I've read no news in here. Just business as usual and this is the real reason, why the steem doesn't rise. It is nothing new, just another kind of manipulation. Think about. All of you. The whales, the dolphins and the minnows. The steem is not able to raise with such an asymmetric vote–power system. Never, because it's just the same procedure as every year, James …