It seems there is quite a lot of back and forth banter on Steemit lately over price, and bid bots and user activity and so forth. A lot of posts going up just to goat at other users and such. Lots of Banfield hate, lots of Ned hate, lots of hate from and for Sanders, the other half of Ned's split personality 😉
Okay so here is what we do to help steemit. If you have over 5000SP make your Steemit Post then go upvote 3 random posts under new posts from new users at 100%. Then walk away
If we started focusing on voting for people who are not getting Shit on this platform, people will stop posting shit on this platform.
As for me I am gonna go vote for 10 new random posts at 100% and walk away for the day.
I am not even gonna center this post.
This is, was, and always will be the answer to every question Steemit raises, but sadly, everyone on here with over 5K SP is too busy autovoting all their mates who also all have over 5K SP.......that and throwing the plankton a 0% upvote and some 'encouraging' words about producing 'great content'.
Hence, go to the bottom of the class for being way too sensible and kind and posting a way too simple, yet perfect solution.
Those people with 5K SP, likely were all joining steemit about the same time, or bought steem, and powered it up as an investment. When I joined in Aug last year one of the guys that joined the same time as me is now a REP of 64, and has close to 3000 SP, and like me no personal funds invested. Another friend joined in Dec, and he has a REP of 57 like me and 800 SP, once again nothing invested. Neither of these to tried to buddy up, cozy up with whales, they are both a heck of a lot better at content creation than I am and most of their votes, like most of my votes received come from users with smaller accounts. We also support those same people who joined about the same time as we did, only natural we are all learning the ins and outs at the same time.
Highschool seniors do not frequently play with and buddy up with freshmen in highschool. So a the Dolphins tend to support themselves, the minnows, (a large part of them), try to get the attention of the dolphins. The redfish, all have to fend for themselves, that was the way it used to be. It has changed on steemit in the last six months, there has been meaningful social growth.
In january, a small group of people signed on to support a redfish project. Created by someone that Joined the same time I did, and someone that joined in Dec. It was and is called @newbieresteemday. It was the first of it's kind. It was a group that helped new user get a leg up, not a handout, and were not robbed blind by the group, just passed out information of where what and some ideas on how to do things. Now there are a lot of those groups out helping new users learn and grow on steemit.
Three or months ago a Dolphin started a program to help a few redfish become minnows, last month he put a call out for people looking to become Dolphins, part of the steemit middle class, (I was selected), over the course of the last week I have seen no less than two other call from dolphins to minnows to help them grow to dolphins. One of the calls had two other dolphins signing on to support the project.
Not to long ago @timcliff educated a large part of the steemit community about the dust level votes. Out of that that individual who was a co founder of @newbieresteemday, @davemccoy, got together with @danielsaori and created @dustsweeper, to help those votes count for the giver and the recipient.
So I guess it is all about where one looks as to what one finds when they look at steemit. The helping attitude for free started with the redfish class of users. The education and outreach of the various help societies on steemit is having an effect, the number of "nice post" "pretty picture", are getting less and less, the number of new users are growing, the vote for vote follow for follow are all dying. Yes there are bad neighborhoods, yes there are bullies, but over all the society aspects of steemit are growing and changing and I think they are moving in the right direction.
New toys get boring after awhile and then it's back to playing with the box it came in. There are multiple types of people on steemit, so attitudes are going to be quite varied.
Wow..how complicated and obtuse. Do you not think that it would just be easier to simply read a few articles from the 'new' feed and upvote and comment if you like them or move on to the next if you dont?
Does Steemit really need new posses, curation trails, discord channels blah blah blah ?
It needs people to read shit, comment and upvote. Simple....just what the OP suggested....far too many committees here!
You are so fucking right man @nathen007. They keep telling you to post good contents without realizing its frustrating to keep doing same thing without no result and they are auto upvoting someone else bit encourage you with words. Like wtf! They preach passion, they be like just keep doing it without the money in mind. But that was what brought us all here, boldly written on the home page of steemit "post and earn". Most times it is the people who alreafy are earning that tells you that". But lets all be realistic for a sec. Most people wouldnt be here if they werent gaining anything in return. They would rather stick to facebook and its likes knowing they earn nothing.. The politics on steemit is just too much
The politics here is everything, the whole blockchain is nothing more than a fundraiser for people with certain political ideals.
Yeah you can say that again man
In support of decentralization, I will not center my posts ;)
I wonder what's going on? it'd be nice to know!
@ned will still have millions of steem. haejin is powering down also, why not mention of that from anyone? like me I guess afraid to put the @ in front of his name lest they become the newest of the low. I would like to point out that I did see one post where haejin is wrong just about 76% of the time on his predictions, so that is really really good new for steem.
I think @ned is just going through an existential identity crisis, and is getting ready to buy himself a Bugatti Veyron - rather expensive at - about $1.5 million - a power down of 1,800,111.122 STEEM should about cover it, and the insurance and the tickets generated from driving it.
Ned does seem to be going through an odd phase. Maybe the pressure is getting to him.
If H leaves then it's one less distraction.
I don't know if it is pressure getting to him, more of a growth phase ever since coming back from S. Korea, and Anthony Bourdain's suicide. He is at that age we all were when we first start thinking about what next, where am I going, do I want family, the age of oh God I'm going to be 30 soon, life is over now. I don't actually know how old he is, somewhere late 20's mid 30's maybe, no clue. But he has left the teenage angst years to the first set of many I'm getting old angst years. The 30 stage, the marry or not marry stage, the fast car or nicer house.
Me I was lucky during all that most people are lucky during all that, because most of us do not have a huge wad of income to do whatever we please during those phases, so like in the 60's/70's rich kids trying to find their place in the sun, only now there is no place for rich kids to run away from all their worries. No more fun allowed.
I think this period is going to be good for him, and good for steem. It is not like he is a total doofus, he is a smart person, just a little lost right now, and being sucked into the white coat bootlick society. When he learns he is allowed to accept his ego, as all the great thinkers and movers have done for eons, then he will be stepping onto the right path for himself.
He's definitely smart and he is young, but it must be stressful to be the figurehead of something like Steem. I think he and Dan created it with the best intentions, but they deliberately gave up some control. It must be frustrating to see some of what happens here. I just hope he has good people around him to support him.
Sometimes it seems he does, sometimes it seems he does not, so as an individual looking in from outside, yeah it could be hard for him to find the support he needs.
When a CEO of my former employer sold some of his shares,he made a public announcement that he wanted to help his daughter out and he had put almost everything in the shares, that's all. That did the trick in the market.
Carrying something like "I have a goal and not enough cash on me at the moment" would ease the paranoid ones.
Voting random never helps. The better solution is to read a large number of posts at random (or on a subject that you know well) and vote on the ones that had good original content.
I would say vote on something that definitely looks good but yes vote some and move on. Help each other out. Or even on newcomers, help them feel a bit encouraged.
I do this and my vote is currently worth .01 cent.
The SteemIt paradigm was built around the question of how much Steem Power people would be willing to hold in their account to have influence. They assumed that people would happily risk several thousand dollars so that their vote would be notable.
The SteemNow Upvote Calculator shows that the 100% vote of an account with 100 SP is currently worth $0.01 .
I hope you don't mind, but I took a peek at your wallet. Sure enough, SteemIt says you have 107 SP.
Your account highlights the fundamental question behind the staying power of SteemIt.
I see you have 213 STEEM . That STEEM is currently worth $340. That is actual money. You could withdraw that STEEM and get $340 in real money.
If you pressed the "Power Up" button and transformed that Steem into Steem Power; your voting power would rise to $0.03 .
Is putting $340 at risk worth raising the value of one's vote by two cents?
The SteemIt business plan assumed that people would happily put thousands at risk for influence.
Notably, the SteemBoard defined a "minnow" as an account with 1,000,000 VESTS (about 500 steem power). This platform poses some very interesting questions.
My account is only worth $18. I have no problem losing that. But I keep wondering when I would start withdrawing funds.
@soundlegion YOU ARE AWESOME ...that is all :-)
Well said. I'll be passing out some votes today. We need to keep supporting the creative minnows
The price of Steem Will at all times Go Down... It's presupposed to : The Magic of Steem vigour
I like where you are going with this. Great idea, let's all get a move on and do it.
Now that's a great idea. Just because prices are dropping does not mean it's the end of the world. Just support one another and uplift each other. Thanks so much. @soundlegion
Probably true. There's a lot of good posts getting lots of upvotes on steemit, but many of the trending ones seems to be upvoted by lots of people out of pure speculation. I guess it has to do with the voting system, but it depends on the users as well...
Gotta keeo our heads high and our VP rolling man! Thats ht eonly way how we all will grow
That's exactly 2 years too late for that.
lol wow this one popped off. I love this platform and all of you folks, I was just havin a fun go at some of these drama spilled posts... we got good places to go still here on steemit... support them minnows and new users folks.. we got this in the bag ... great energy all around, lets keep that going.
Yay- someone with a positive suggestion! Yay!! I've been here just over a week and have to say some of the doooom posts have started to make me get a bit nervy. You, however, are a hero! E x