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RE: Steemit: The Whale Gossip Column Of Privileged Authors Competing for Whale Nipple

in #whales8 years ago

I do think they are working on this. I have also seen it spreading out more. I think it has still not been quite a week since they did something that I already see helping. It used to be that just like you and I when a whale voted something it would award their entire possible reward for that vote. This could easily be $1000. This meant that for every single thing they might want to up vote they had to think "is this worth $1000?". The result was we often had some surprising titles making $20000, to $30000. It also had the result that people the whales tended to like and follow almost always cleared $1000 per post.

Recently they added an adjustable slider that I guess becomes available when your power is sufficient enough to warrant it. It allows them to adjust how much they want to pay out. If they want to spend $5 on a comment someone made, now they can. This freed them up to act kind of like normal people and vote on things they like.

This has resulted in the payouts being much smaller, and they are getting spread around quite a bit. I've had whale votes on my comments a few times, and I've even had some whale votes for small amounts on some of my blog posts. In the past I never received any such votes because my posts were not likely viewed as being popular or well written enough, or something of that nature. I didn't really care. I was/am making something where I was making nothing before. I can say some posts I put a lot of work into that I thought might do well often made less than $1. I got used to this and I am okay with it. I will do what I do, and when it hits, or I get lucky great, if it doesn't I'm still having great communication with people like yourself, learning a lot, and I feel like we can change the world together.

I think the size of the payouts will continue to decrease as we have more and more people joining and as those with the slider start utilizing it to enable them to spread their votes around more.

My posts that do the best tend to be ones where I am complaining about something about the way voting works. I don't post these for the money, but that does seem to be a side effect. That is often a hot topic so people get passionate about it. In fact, I only post such posts due to being passionate. Steemit/Steem are in beta and I consider such posts as a bug report, and possibly constructive criticism to address something.

That is how I view this post of yours as well.

I haven't told you before, welcome aboard the steemship. Very glad to have you here, I've read all of your blog entries up to this point. I myself do not partake in marijuana though I grew up around it and I am 100% for legalizing every drug on the planet. (Anarchist) I don't use out of personal preference, the few times I used it when I was younger it really messed with my perception of time. :) I laughed my ass off, but I'd get a time compression effect. It could be two hours and it'd feel like 15 minutes to me. That likely would have gone away with more exposure. When it came to being stoned I can make myself feel stoned with some effort without partaking. I would return to it for medical reasons if I ever need to.