I still believe steemit will be top gun. Its a new program of course there is going to be hiccups! Thanks @ned for response. I also think you and @dan should be more involved in finding great content and not voting for the same people over and over again.
I agree with you steemit is amazing I am loving it! But you can't expect something new to not have some issues when it begins and I feel as though most people understand and accept this.
I feel some people may be getting too used to receiving thousands of dollars for every post, and then when it stops happening for every single post they panic and start to think about jumping ship rather than doubling down and trying harder to regain their attention.
Whilst I would love the whales to spread the votes more, can we really ask people to vote up content just to get it viewed? Even if they really aren't interested in it? Just to be fair to people who haven't made it big yet?
My best post earned me $360 and that blew my mind, but I don't expect all my posts to do that well. As an original content maker for steemit I want honest feedback so I know my work was valued for what it was, not just given votes because I've put out a few posts and they seem to be ok and I haven't made thousands like some.
I'm happy to just keep posting away and hope I get some more genuine interest.
It is possible that Steemit may be growing faster than it's market cap can support. As someone mentioned, it's very easy to blog but very hard to buy Steem Power. You can't buy Steem Power with fiat, with a credit card, etc, and this bottle neck is the reason why payouts decrease for everyone, not just top bloggers. Because as more people join, they want to blog, but the amount of money in the pool is decreasing because not enough people are buying Steem Power for the growth rate of Steemit to be sustainable with the current group of bloggers.
More bloggers than there is buyers for Steem Power may be the problem.
The market will work it self out. If more and more growth is happening Crypto investors will come into by Steem. Let's don't worry about the price. Let's focus on getting this platform to reward great quality content and fair curation.
If that is the issue how can they promote people buying steem power?
Would there be a way for some people or companies/organisations to pay to have their posts promoted?
If this were to happen (and I'm not really sure how I feel about tbh) I think it would require a feature to make it stand out as obviously paid for content promotion.
@krystle Yes, right from the beginning of the design, paying to boost your content has been built into the system. It's an intentional design to entice businesses to use Steem as a marketing and press release type platform.
It doesn't mean that the material will necessarily make it to the top-hits page, I mean #trending, but especially when groups are implemented, it can push such posts up to the tops of group trending filter pages.
And furthermore, the benefit for everyone is that, if a business buys and vests steem to promote its marketing, the entire steemosphere gets a boost to available rewards!
Could not have said it better myself. Cant expect a polished product in beta and we need to be patient and understanding off this fact . Steemit i believe will be all i hoped it will be , but Rome wasn't built in a day : ) . Hang in there because a little faith goes a long way.
Exactly something way to polished when its not even done seems a bit sketch.
Trial and error is the best way to go.
I agree as well that Steemit will be the top gun. Problems are being ironed out and the platform is progressing rapidly. That is great others are working on other platforms but it isn't here yet. Steemit is here and the payouts are very real. There is a lot of smart money on this platform and more smart money coming on board. Personally I wasn't impressed by the look of Synereo in the demo video either. While everyone is dreaming of platforms that aren't out yet I will make sure I put up a lot of quality posts and comments on Steemit and actually get paid instead of dreaming of getting paid on something that isn't here yet.
Highest degree of logic and reasoning right here from brianphobos. Yea, obviously keep in eye out for other emerging tech.. but until those platforms are formidable, might as well just Steem it up and claim a piece of the only pie that is hot and ready for dessert. Speculation is unproductive, plain and simple.
Literally just talked about this here and your comment gets 20x more then my post. Lmao gotta love it... all about timing and placement, I'm not bitching I have other plans then "will-zewe". I agree 100% though they need to promote others and not constantly support a few people. https://steemit.com/steemit/@will-zewe/whales-on-steemit-should-act-like-talent-agents
That is why steemit is badass man. you never know when you will get noticed. But yea whales should spread their votes so we can get a better foundation.
Oh yes, steemit is so badass, I agree 100%. This platform blows centralized networks out of the water regardless of hiccups in my opinion. I used minds in the past and it was terrible compared to how steemit is for usability. I think this site is just fine and dandy personally.
The whales just need to promote quality regardless of the topic right now, spread the votes around like you said. Whales are like newspaper editors, they have the ability to put someone on the front page giving them exposure. Later whales can upvote and follow but right now they need to be constantly on the move so the minnows and dolphins don't become complacent constantly voting on the same people trying to make money and that's it.
Steemit needs to be artificially driven until the users can organically take over.