Calling All Witnesses
I am one of the Littles on Steem, and we need your help. The recent soft fork (or whatever resulted in all these niggling changes) has resulted in our disappearing a tiny bit more on Steem, and I for one am very unhappy about it.
I have only been through one fork, HF21/22, since arriving. I know HF 20 happened just before I arrived, so I got to deal with the brand new RC system, and was shut out quite regularly. More appropriately, I should say I was shut up.
But still I wrote, I read, I commented and I spread my worthless 100% upvote around. I invested all I could, then diligently worked on the blockchain for more than a year to get my SP up to something that would give other Littles, my peeps, a whopping .02 in their payout fields. I started getting tiny curation rewards.
Then HF21/22 came along with its upvote curve and suddenly my upvote on my fellow Littles' posts went back to being worthless. Our hard earned steem could no longer buy as much for us, and there were fewer opportunities to make any earnings in our communities. We'd been put into virtual ghettos.
So here's my gripe: with the recent soft fork, only upvotes over .02 generate a notification. Previously, I found my new peeps by checking out anyone who upvoted me with 100%. A 100% upvote of little to no steem value alerted me to newbies who might interest me and need a hand up.
Since the recent so called soft fork that changed everything, I get no notification of a small account's support of my work, none. And anyone I give unbridled support to gets no notification of my support of them. We can search through our upvotes, but there are no percentages on that list, making it nearly impossible to know who were the actual humans who saw my work, and who were among the autovotes that gave me a measly .1% upvote.
Once again, the Littles have been further erased from notice on the blockchain .
Way to go making it more difficult for a new account to gain some traction here. And we wonder why so many new accounts that were making great content got up and left.
@justinsunsteemit, I hope you read this. I read your recent Open Letter. I would like to draw your attention to excellent content creators who might otherwise escape your notice, and are more likely to drown than to swim on this blockchain you just acquired. We are creatures in your very own sea.
This is my entry to @mariannewest's daily freewrite challenge. Today's prompt is "you need help".
I think it's just the price fall. My vote went from 0.05 to 0.04.
No no it's about visibility. The smaller accounts were made less visible in the notifications, which is where I look to see WHO, not what, has upvoted my work. The likes of me, and all of those with sp below mine, have been obscured again. The change has harmed the smaller accounts by disappearing us from notifications.
I find all upvote notifications annoying and disabled it when possible.
Usually, I do an indepth review of my posts after payout to consider people who voted but didn't comment (I continually reply to comments and visit those people). Steemworld is a really great place to check as I can easily get information on whether or not the person voting is for real.
Ok thanks for the tip. Kaelci pointed out that what I really miss is hovering over the heart to see which were humans and which were autovotes. I usually only get 20 or so notifications a day, so they can be major events for me.
Right. I think the best is allowing everyone to decide their own settings about what notifications are important. Steemit and Steempeak had huge updates only a few days ago and probably really appreciate the feedback.
As mentioned, the softfork only changed Justin's abilities as a preventative measure in case he started voting for witnesses to push his own agenda through.
Steempeak's notification system changed recently when Communities were implemented. Which I find highly annoying. I don't WANT to be notified every time someone upvotes my post with 0.02 or more. I only want comments and mentions. Mentions specifically because GinaBOT no longer wants to inform me when I've been mentioned so I'm sure I look like an ignorant cow to everyone. But now I can't find how to remove certain notifications unless I go to the specific notification page and play with checkboxes.
Annoying.
I also liked seeing vote percentages when I hovered over the heart.
Someone else mentioned steemworld. It's a good tool to see a lot things, create new accounts easily, delegate and undelegate, among other things. But when looking specifically for upvotes and percentages, I prefer to use steemnow:
Thank you for the information. The filters are useful, but have you found you have to set those filters every time you look, or am I missing something?
You actually clarify something in what I'm trying to say: I don't care what activates that red blotch (and checking the boxes doesn't seem to affect that), I used to hover over the heart to figure out who the humans were. That's more what I am missing. thank you for that comment
I have not found a way to permanently set the filters. :( It really bugs me.
me too. Plus it's several keystrokes to reset them. Lots more busywork to do simple tasks.
Clever use of the freewrite prompt! So much to digest with all the changes. I like being able to earn a bit from crossposting other's work. Potential to help other littles and yourself there, beyond tiny upvotes.
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I don't know what you're talking about. I can cross post others work and earn for both of us?
Yes. Through Steempeak. You can post someone else's work to a new community. On the new post, 90 percent goes to original author, 5 percent to the original community, and 5 percent to the crossposter.
And you can cross post work older than 7 days, so it can earn again.
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someone else was trying to explain this to me as well but I didn't understand. I belong to three communities. If I cross post an older post from one of these to another, how does it earn? And the author gets so much?!
The crosspost is a new post with separate votes. I'm pretty sure the 90 percent is a percentage of the author payout, not the entire payout.
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Click on the three dots next to the post payout. You'll see a link for crossposting on the pop-up menu.
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Hmmmm... I don't think my notifications are being filtered like that. But then again, I'm using eSteem all the time and not Steempeak. 😊
Thanks for that info. I'll head to esteem to check out who are humans who actually read my work.
Befuddled and Fuddled -@manorvillemike feels our pain too:
https://beta.steemit.com/steemit/@manorvillemike/i-m-befuddled-while-gerry-is-just-fuddled
My sentiments exactly ...