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RE: I Got Flagged Three Times Yesterday. Did You?
I don't really care if I vote for people I like. Not every post that every author I follow is going to resound with me, but that's ok. The group of authors that I like I vote for. That's how it is. Most people aren't super into coins, but I still get a lot of votes from the people I started with, presumably because they value me as an author. Also, I try to spread my votes around a lot, so maybe that's a factor. I don't really know. My vote isn't worth much, so who knows?
Hey, congrats on that 4th flag. If you were playing flag football, you'd be doing really well. Four flags is a lot in flag football. :)
If this were flag football, I'd be going for as many flags as humanly possible. I'd be a flag machine.
Well, my vote is worth 2.5 times less than it was before this latest dip, and I'm already voting into tomorrow's rations. :)
I've pretty much come to the conclusion that I can't know why people do anything here, let alone vote for myself. I'd rather they do it and read it and have a conversation with me, but should I be telling them if they don't read and engage, I don't want their vote? Doesn't seem to be smart, beneficial or even making any sense. People have their control over the rewards and I guess they're going to do what they're going to do. I don't need to go around discouraging them or ticking them off.
Not yet, at least. Maybe when I've been around long enough I can let my bad side loose and see what kind of following of evil minions I can create.
Nah. Too much work. :)
I know that feeling. Sorry, I've stopped doing more than initial votes on comments and such because my vote isn't worth a ton. I try to save some VP so when people comment on my post I can give them a little vote. Still, hopefully they use dustsweeper.
Yeah, don't go intentionally pissing people off. If they want to vote for you without commenting or engaging you, that's fine. They just won't get a vote back on their comments.
I try to be nice, but I've thought about what I would do if I had millions of SP. I'd love to encourage some behaviors and discourage others. I'd also like to enable the community leaders more. Think of what a month of dropping huge votes on community leaders would do! :)
I've been thinking about why I do certain things here and I believe it's because I want to have in practice behaviors I will want in place when I do have more to throw around. In other words, if I want to be wealthy, I need to think first and then act like the wealthy. If I want to be generous, then I need to start now. I need to turn away from a scarcity mindset to one of abundance.
I still like the idea of merit, though, so I'm not giving up on that. I'm just establishing the baseline, is what I think I've been doing.
I like that. I try to operate the same way. I don't have billions in the bank, but I do have more than I'll need to get groceries this week. So I give. When I have tons of money (literally tons... of silver. Ha ha) then I'll be a place where I already have the giving habits established. I can do the same here too.
I don't even pay attention to whether or not I'm getting something on my comments anymore. If I'm cranking, there's a lot of them anyway, so can't expect everyone to keep up. I'm mainly jawing with folks in our class (December-January) anyway, and none of us have enough SP to go dropping non-dust votes forever. Right now, my Voting Power won't hit 100% until 6 AM on Thursday. :)
I don't pay attention to the votes on my comments either. It's too much hassle and no payoff for it. That's why I really like dustsweeper. Then I know that if someone upvotes a comment, but it's not enough, I'll still get paid out and their vote will matter. Most newbs don't know their votes don't matter on comments, so it's nice to make their votes count.
I drop a lot of dust, but hopefully people are able to sweep it too. I don't want it to go to waste, but I don't want to leave them with nothing. Do you use dustsweeper?
No, I don't use dustsweeper. As it is, I'm not even sure why, since many people love it. I guess I just see it in the same light as steem basic income. I know it's tough for newbies, and the rest of us redfish/minnow types, but it all feels like subsidization, and it also feels like manipulation of the reward pool. I can't blame anyone for trying it. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense that newbies don't have enough SP to vote over the dust threshold, or for that matter, that there be a dust threshold, except if it really is true that the computational load would put too much strain on the resources of the blockchain. That's the excuse they give for it, anyway.
With bidbots and self-votes and delegation all manipulating the reward pool in one way or another, what's a few more?
I don't really see it as a manipulation. More of a correction of the wrong that is dust. It keeps people from getting paid what they should get and it slows down minnows. You're not a minnow, but it means that I could upvote your comment, but it wouldn't do anything.
Regardless of what you choose to do with it, I'll respect your decision.