There is no mistake here. Yes, this adds plenty of value by demonstrating that the CTO of Steemit inc. is nothing but a troll who wants to be able to control who earns and who doesn't on this platform. I would say the 61 current votes and 67 views demonstrate that.
A prime example is his voting of @dollarvigilante who auto-posts everything and hasn't commented here in over 2 months. Why does Dan vote for that content that adds no value? Just another example, there are plenty more.
Posts of @dollarvigilante can bring us much traffic now and in the future, and they already did. In my humble opinion he added more value than he took away. As of accusing the CTO of steemit that way, can't be considered as an effort for constructive criticism in any way.
Just to let you know, a lot of users left because of Dollarvigilante.
I respect your observation. But can you tell me why in your opinion?
thank you @liondani. It's everything on the blockchain, especially the reason why some left :) but now, with lower payouts, some are leaving the sinking ship, right?
exactly.
Thanks for your opinion. As you can see by the votes, many disagree with you.
I bet the most are not manual votes
Such is life here on Steemit...
Rewarding people like @dollarvigilante is why I've pretty much abandoned Steemit. His posts are crap. Maybe 1 in 20 looks like he put some effort into it, and he spouts pure shit, yet he's some kind of star and is in the 'inner circle' so he gets rewarded for crap.
As for the traffic he's brought here; I couldn't comment on that as I can't see anyway to measure that. Suffice to say, has he spent some of the tens of thousands he's made here marketing Steemit?
Come to think of it, has Dan or Ned spent some of their millions on marketing? That's a big fat no. You can have the best idea in the world, but if you don't tell anyone about it, it will never fly.
Cg
In your opinion it is crap... But see how much followers he has...That is something... don't you think? I don't look how much money someone spend to promote steem but how much exposure he brings to us. Let's give you an extreme example... If Donald Trump would be a regular commenter/poster on steemit would you ask not rewarding him because he is not investing back his rewards or/and is making bullshit comments/posts?
The followers came in the first few weeks. At that point he was adding value, but like most things in life, follow through matters, and when supporting Steem required more follow through and effort without being paid $15K/post, he stopped. At this point it is all auto-pilot and even most of the followers are gone (i.e. look at how few actually comment on his posts any more, other than when discussing how they are ripping off Steem)
In mine and many people's opinion; followers don't prove anything. Donald Trump would clearly bring users to Steemit, if Dollar could bring a tenth or even a hundreth of the people Trump would bring, that would be something. However I doubt he is responsible for more than a couple of hundred extra people, and that is optimistic I reckon.
Cg
To see how much traffic he is bringing now, just check the
viewscounts at the end of every post. ~100 views each.Not that we should be proud of but more than the average views of current trending posts !!!
That means some of the trending posts don't worth the reward as well.
He ups and you down dollarvigillante.
You up and he downs ozchartart.
But sure... There's a difference... of opinion