When you only vote on content that dings your confirmation bias you aren't doing yourself any favors.
Most of us here are seeking a better way.
We are looking for truth that we havent been given by our indoctrinations into the matrix.
We are looking for solutions to this crapitalistic dystopia brought to us by the go along to get along morons.
You do know that the go along to get alongers are who gave hitler the balls to invade Czechoslovakia, dont you?
If you dont, smdh, read a historic book, eh? Something published before 1950.
If the only voices you listen to agree with you, you are not going to get the truth, you are going to get circle jerked.
If the only opinions you tolerate in the conversation go along with your beliefs, you will not find your answers, you think you already have them, and are simply looking to be confirmed in that belief.
This is why i denigrate stinc, et al, and @curie sooo much.
They were both very clear in what types of content they were going to support with their massive stakes.
It doesnt take a genius to figure out that my content didnt make the cut.
I was here before curie was a thing.
They originally used @ned's posting key to vote with.
Delegation wasnt a thing, yet.
With that whale stake they voted themselves salaries from the pool by upvoting their own crap posts to the trending page.
In those days it took four figure payouts to get on trending.
There was sooo much community backlash to that that they were forced to stop.
At least they found that much shame, anyways.
Still, they persist in giving milquetoast authors false hopes.
They support folks that really have no chance of making it here absent that help.
Their circlejerk doesnt carry much weight outside their cult following.
Once the authors time out of curie's support they are left with the false expectations that they will continue getting voted by the larger community.
Instead of letting the newbs know right up front that only brownnosers find their content interesting, they try to pass themselves off as being in tune with the broader community.
I cant pull the numbers myself, if you can please do.
I got no problem admitting when i am wrong.
Do curie voted authors find support once curie drops them?
Is curie in tune with the broader community, or are they just robbing from everybody to give to a few that nobody really likes, anyways?
Stinc, et al, was right upfront with their intentions, too.
If you dont do corporate speak you got nothing coming from them.
I understand their support of utopian, at least they are purported to be giving us code that increases the functionality of the platform, but when stinc, et al, select 'winners' to bestow their 'benevolence' upon, everybody not selected has the votes they do get diminished in value.
This is how the math works here, newb!
When a whale votes everybody not voted pays their share of those whale granted rewards.
When you cheer on those 3 figure votes you are cheering your own votes being worth less.
When 30% of the reward pool goes to the losers that can only get votes by buying them, those rewards come out of the value the votes that you get would have had.
You are getting less because whales dont like you and greedy bastards are paying the vote sellers to rob you for them.
They call it 'paying for visibility' but we all know that absent the immediate return on their payments very few folks would bother 'buying visibility'.
If it was only about viewers, they could decline rewards, get seen by more folks, and not get a greedy bastard reputation among those of us that better know the math.
Welcome to stake based rewards!
You are screwed until you can build a following.
They even round down your votes just to bitch slap you for being too poor to buy some stake!
All hail, stinc!
The lie they want you to believe is that anybody can come here and make significant money.
And you can, if you live in venezuela where 1sbd pays your food bill for the whole month.
Otherwise, unless you brownnose some whales, or ride curie's tit, you got very little coming.
Before i get dinged, again, for just bitching and not solutionizing, here is the remedy!
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A community supported cap on voting at ~500mv.
That is, anybody with more than 250k sp has to keep their greedy grubbies out of the pool.
Even the largest whales can still vote, just at a lower influence.
Until the dolphins and orcas grow numerous enough that their stake mitigates against the largest whale's outsized influence in the pool we need this cap to broaden who gets rewards.
There are not enough accounts with enough influence to vote 100's of k's of accounts worthwhile rewards.
Until this happens, mass adoption is unlikely, imo.
Clearly the greedy whales like the circle jerk and will never vote any dissenters, that is what they have been doing.
They dont see any shame in that, either.
'Its their stake to do with as they please!'
And, that is true, clearly they can bestow their benevolence only on brownnosers and the milquetoast authors that dont challenge their bs, but if mass adoption is the goal they are going to have broaden eligibility for worthwhile reward levels.
We only have to look at the 93% of accounts that tell them, and likely everybody they know, that steem is bs.
Why would the masses play this game when their votes get rounded down and the only hope of getting rewards lies in slobbing whale knob?
They wont.
By enforcing this cap on the greedy whales, the community will broaden who gets rewards and broader distribution will occur.
If minnow votes werent crushed by the whale's advantage in the math they could immediately reward their friends.
Maybe not enough to pay rent, but surely enough for an egg mcmuffin.
Enough that when somebody gets invited here they have a chance at earning something worthwhile instead of looking at goose eggs for dozens of posts in a row.
And also, before i get accused of bashing the rich, and not just the greedy, this increased adoption will put upward pressure on the price benefitting the whales the most.
If you agree with all, some, or none of what ive said, make your own post with what you think will make steem a better value.
If you want me to read it, link it in the comments.
If you want to contact me off the chain i am in discord and riot.im with this same name.
Dont bother trying to get me in steemit.chat they stopped sending email notifications and i rarely check it.
Otherwise, thanks for making it this far, and have a perfectly peaceful day!
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We are actually working on a track for our new album called, "The Echochamber". It touches on exactly the things you are mentioning here and how they permeate almost every other facet of society (in our specific case the music biz), and especially now in this day and age where we are all online and in front of each other. Politics, leverage, and power really always seem to be the beginning of the end for social platforms. It's such a shame because they are always very promising in the beginning. It always has to feel like a big bait and switch. Then it just ends up feeling like a waste. -Johnny
Yes, escaping the real world isnt a facet of social media, for sure.
The people bring their problems with them.
I figure it doesnt get fixed if the wheel doesnt squeek, but good luck with that at a job.
The only fixing there is killing the messenger.
I've seen it first hand with a lot of different sites. At first it's great, then not so much.
They always seem to find a way to ruin a good thing.
For instance, the person who had the most trending post in all categories here today paid to have his post upvoted to around $1000, revealed by a bot in the comments. Clearly abusive, and someone even called it out. It wasn't the worst post but it certainly wasn't $1000 worth. But why even? They didn't really have anything to promote, just for what, popularity? I don't get it.
I shudder to think just how lopsided it could really be if corporations caught on. Like getting a receipt from tacobell and seeing a little ghost on it saying "follow us on snapchat!" And that's not to mention how every damn thing ever has a "like us on facebook" tag somewhere somehow. Like down to city hall here even and kohl's and the gas station. Really? Do people really like these things on facebook? I guess maybe.
Now take it even further and imagine if steemit became mainstreamed in that way, and you had people like Taylor Swift, The Kardashians, or any other empty headed ego show parading on here with their infinite flocks following in droves. It could happen. The whales of today would become microscopic nobodies. Or maybe it won't happen. I guess that's the interesting part, the not knowing what could happen. The promise of a possible opportunity. Seeing social medias in the beginning when they are fresh and cool and open is exciting (not too mention great for spreading music, the old myspace was incredibly great for that until facebook sterilized it). Seeing them become throttled out paywalls and thrones for the hot, trending, and usually manufactured flavor of the minute culture is quite the opposite. And in most cases, if they weren't grandfathered in from an earlier era they paid a lot of money to look like they are relevant. And people buy it. Like the guy with the $1000 post times 1000.
I like to personally think that chaos rules and anything can happen, but I read an interesting article not that long ago that stated that the internet itself works because.... people are predictable.
Ok losing my train of thought a bit, it's late. Catch up with you soon.
-J
Yep, lots of things get ruined 'because they can'.
Its the nature of our culture.
Unless big bro is there to smack their hands they steal all the candy at eye level, and think they are being funny doing it.
'If you dont want me doing x, change the code so x isnt an option.'
My response, 'Well, butt munch, how about you dont be a dick, eh?'
I think its better that the community learn not to abuse others without a big bro putting the smackdown on all of us.
But, i'm a dreamer.
Looking forward to the new releases.
nice idea. i also agree with you
Thanks.