One possible answer is how more and more users are selling their votes or delegating their SP for money, leaving less value for upvotes for "non-paying users".
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One possible answer is how more and more users are selling their votes or delegating their SP for money, leaving less value for upvotes for "non-paying users".
That’s an interesting point for sure. Thanks.
This is true. I do it.
By that same account, there's very little here that interest me. Most of the content here is from daily bloggers posting about random feel good thoughts, travel blogs, themselves talking about something they aren't an expert in, food. Etc. All of this content produces little value to the masses and we all know what happens to blogging websites that built themselves on that model....
The only difference steem can make is if people develop more applications that leverage the blockchain to centralize the data that is on it. The steem condenser will otherwise be the equivalent to yahoo message boards, a total complete fucking mess. Except it was the best thing of its time. Steem has a plethora of better alternatives.
It's a complicated cycle. When we have no interesting content to be easily found - we rather spend our upvotes somewhere else. If people see Steem as a platform which works better with bought votes than quality content, we will not attract quality content creators.
I'm not seeing any issues with people treating Steemit like a random blogging site or Facebook, posting selfies and such. However the issue is that they are doing it for money (otherwise they usually would use more fluently working sites) and when they don't get any large upvotes with their pointless material, they just leave. Or buy some upvotes.
Steemit has too many flaws compared to other services it would be attractive without the rewards.
It's impossible to get a vote for a non-paying user now. Everyone hoards their VP like their lives depend on it and even if it sits there and rots they won't throw a vote of more than 1% at anyone nonpaying. New users, old users, doesn't matter. God forbid someone who didn't pay gets something.
While that may be statistically accurate, it's not literally true at all. I have never once paid for or sold a vote, and I only manually curate, also never having cast a 1% vote.
Well people are basically greedy. I'm selling some votes, basically on times when I'm not active, so I can't be a hypocrite but I still prefer voting content I like instead of trying to earn as much as possible.
We can't have a perfect system with people, as greed can basically ruin any system available. Steem could be something beautiful, but it's nothing but a vote selling platform for far too many people.