It seems to me that the name of an individual carries more weight than the content of their articles.
One can see from a recent post by @rogerkver.
This post is quite literally click-through advertising for his website. There is next to no content within this post itself. It pushes traffic to his site. Is this not in essence double dipping? He gets Steemit revenue and advertisement revenue on his site.
In fact, it is a post, about a post, linking to another post...
I have no personal qualms with Mr. Ver - I think he's a great figure in the Bitcoin space, but I do have qualms with the way in which "content" is rewarded on this site.
Does this make sense to anyone else?
I think we need to rethink what is rewarded on the site - we can't all go whale and VIP chasing/ ego stroking. Where is the room for growth for individual writers who are not "in" or already established within the space?
Maybe this is just how Steemit is destined to always remain - a platform where few hit it really big while the others spin their wheels. Doesn't seem like much of a meritocracy to me.
I can understand your frustration and I have I have somewhat felt the same way. Steemit keeps going through phases. And it is really hard to predict where the upvotes are going to go. Right now we are in the BTC / Crypto / Liberty celeb phase. I think it is good that they are joining but they 100% sure payout to those posts no matter the content is bound to upset a lot of the people hustling for a few bits on here. I feel like in a week or two they will all be on here and then Steemit will go through another phase. There is no predicting what that is. I have done pretty good on here posting a wide variety of stuff but it still isn't without its frustration when I have posts that I have spent a lot of time on and are well liked but only make a dollar because a whale doesn't upvote it. I'm playing a long term game with this and I'm figuring it will take a year to really do well on here.
And that other Dollar Guy's post is selling subscriptions.
There were some 'should we allow advertising' posts not so long ago. But I think those were about CHARGING for ads, as opposed to PAYING for them!
EXACTLY. I don't have anything against these guys themselves, but this isn't what the platform was made for (in my opinion). It was to reward creativity and thoughtful analysis - not circle jerking already established figures at the chance of a quick buck.
There's a lot of work to be done here. Guess that is what beta is all about.
The current curation rewards are what's just terrible and incentivises this kind of automatic voting for popular authors.
This is life my friend and this is the future of life.
And you're cool with this?
It would be naive to think individuals wouldn't use Steemit as a means to drive traffic to their sites. It's the responsibility of the curators to ignore or maybe even down-vote posts that provide little to no exclusive, valuable content and just serve as a landing page directing to an external site.
Yes, they'll have to find a way around this, but still think it's too early, let it grow?!
What do you mean...too early for what?
Lovely post, Followed and Upvote you.. need same favor from you.
Not sure if you are still writing on steemit, however, I am new here and was having these same thoughts. What originally attracted to me to this platform was the avoidance of that stuff, or at least, what seemed like there was going to be an avoidance of it. Hate all the ads on insta and snapchat, guess its here too...just in a different way.
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They are still in Beta though, it needs the big guys. And in the mean time seeing how it evolves.
If a thousand people like me would upvote, they still wouldn't have a large sum, it's composed of peoples investing etc, i think.
And in the mean time the Steem is blocked, so? They carry the system?
Ofcourse i wouldn't mind being hit by a large Steemholder.:)
I understand that they're still in Beta, but there is AMAZING content that is just sliding into the abyss in the new section of the site. And they get no love! But if you're a celeb, people upvote hoping to get a curator bonus - the content doesnt matter. For DV, and many other, most posts are rehashes of already discussed topics. It's getting exasperating trying to find good things to read - most things on the front page are circlejerking (pardon)... I love the idea of Steemit, but I think relying on big names is the WRONG way to go about it. It would be better to make a bunch of new comers into established winners so that they churn out awesome content consistently.
I think, it's still too early, hopefully a more specialist, larger crowd will come,
i sometimes have the same sentiment though, but?