part (a big part) of the reason that Steemit is like a lottery is 'bots
a HUGE percentage of the voting is by bots.
they don't read the article..they don't curate it...they just harvest votes.
consequently...why pour your heart and soul into a lengthy post..
when a meme (or as you say...three or four paragraphs) will get just as many votes.
That's one reason I do so many newslinks. I can do MANY news links in the same time I'd take to write a post...and get as many vote from EACH newslink as I would the post.
bots and flaggin are a scourge on Steemit.
I will quote you on that:
"bots and flaggin are a scourge on Steemit"
I agree; it's not a level play field, there are arrogant early users that think it will always be their playground of 10K users forever, and a lot of name calling, cliques, and popularity politics that get in the way of doing business, making new friends, and finding your way, on Steemit.
@ned
It's not the first time I've said that or something similar.
I've made post about flaggin and bots before.
Include a link man!
check my blog....I've only made ten thousand posts or so...
right.. exactly my point.
I don't want to fall into the trap of posting mindless and vanilla content though. At least not yet. There are many accounts with higher reputation and more views than mine who only post a single picture and fewer than 50 words in the content (which probably indicates that I'm doing something wrong).
Oh yeah, I completely agree that bots are the bane of Steemit's existence!
oh I dunno...it might mean they have a group of followers who have high steam power and vote for them on a regular basis.
Whales voting for whales? (or perhaps orcas?)
I'm thinking A strategy would be to make a few mindless posts for the bots..then make a couple or three that have intellectual value for humans to read....a day.
I think the new strategy is 1. becoming a whale, 2. creating an upvote bot where people send you SBD for votes, 3. reap the rewards of everyone sending you SBD for "Free Votes", 4. reap the rewards of your bot by sending SBD to it yourself (then sending the SBD back to you in a big recycling of your own SBD), 5. destroy the future of Steemit (check out my link in my previous post for a slightly more detailed viewpoint).
Strategy for everyone else is 1. develop a following, 2. develop content that people will read / upvote, 3. pray that people actually look at your content and upvote you .. a much more difficult endeavor ...
two questions...what is a what (how much SteemPower) ...how does one become a whale?
I though flagging was essential to get rid of posts and behavior that was hurting the community. If it is being misused maybe all flags should be validated by other curators who again are validated by the community.
who's gonna watch the watchers?
what is this "community' you speak of?