you might check Steem Stats Report - Results of yesterday's downtime
in which he reports
- Although websites like Busy.org and chainBB remained online, the downtime had a huge impact on the number of messages posted yesterday. It is striking that the number of votes was quite normal though. I think it is proof that virtually all votes are done by voting-bots.
The question raises it ugly head and asks itself
of spending hours creating original quality content when it will not even be read? Might as well copy/paste pages from a phone book to get the same number of votes..
hmmm...might do that..if I can find a phone book..
Like in many fields where the initial work involved is effectively just a labour of love; such playing sports, music, art etc; the most successful posters on Steemit that may remain in a few years time could be those that weren't bothered so much about making money in the beginning. They will be the ones that genuinely wanted to just produce great content and had faith in their own ability and didn't need the approval of others or the monetary reward to motivate them. Besides, if things doesn't work out on Steemit for the very best writers, there's always the chance that they could end up writing somewhere else.
you keep saying "great content'..
and yet after an hour...
....it's gone..(95% of the votes happen in the first hour)
Dunno if copy/paste is financially optimal with the online phone books. Most phone/address sites require payment for access. I think that the US Census Bureau might be the new 'insert text here' filler.
PS. Annual Estimates of the Resident Population by Sex, Age, Race Alone or in Combination, and Hispanic Origin for the United States and States: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2016 more information
2016 Population Estimates
Race Alone or in Combination [1]
White / Black or African American / American Indian and Alaska Native / Asian / Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
Both Sexes / 256,013,483 / 46,778,674 / 6,706,210 / 21,419,159 / 1,532,027
Under 5 years / 15,354,937 / 3,683,164 / 561,573 / 1,493,972 / 146,905
5 to 9 years / 15,787,101 / 3,721,222 / 565,105 / 1,480,094 / 144,219
10 to 14 years / 16,018,108 / 3,564,543 / 546,373 / 1,444,300 / 132,041
15 to 19 years / 16,349,518 / 3,663,324 / 543,595 / 1,408,749 / 124,394
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That is, the phone book jibber jabber isn't cheap anymore but you can find endless drivel at the US Census bureau site. ;-)