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RE: Idea: Spending Steem to Boost Posts

in #steemit8 years ago

I understand your point and agree that you shouldnt be penalized for writing good content with a bad title. On the other hand, it does put brand new users at a large disadvantage over more established ones, as they clearly wont have the STEEM to spend on boosting lowly rated posts. I wonder if there might be a compromise?

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Fair point. Though I would counter by saying that new users being disadvantaged is equal to old users being advantaged. It seems obvious to me that old users should have an advantage. The advantage should be fair, but I don't think most people (for example) would take kindly to a campaign to "remove advantage from early adopters." A big part of the whole reason we are using this platform now as opposed to later is because we believe that doing so will provide us with an advantage.

I would add to @andrarchy's comment that a new user does have the ability to buy STEEM through BTC and can then use that to boost their posts. So while they would likely not have any STEEM from posts, they still would have the ability to purchase it with outside funds and boost posts that way. This would also have the effect of bringing outside investment into Steemit.