RE: Will the real sock puppet please stand up
Many of those posts I laughed at because I have a friend who is a chef and a phenomenal photographer as well as a good writer and videographer. I saw those posts and thought... man Alana should come here she will make bank and do really well. However, that is not true. She would make bank IF she were one of your friends or a friend of the other whales voting up these accounts. My friend would have to start in the trenches like everyone else and hopefully get noticed and be frustrated by $0 posts and posts less than $1 that she put hours into making.
@dwinblood Steemit is just starting as a social platform. I noticed there were good food authors out there, and in a time when there are collective efforts to recognize authors on steemit I thought about it and came out with the the Steemitrecipes Daily Picks idea.
It's a brand new effort and already got some positive responses from @knozaki2015 and @silversteem and I am grateful to them. Tomorrow will be just the third edition. Any power-up help of @steemitrecipes o resteem would help this kind of effort to grow (I think in terms of long term, years from now).
So if your friend posts good food related content I don't see how he wouldn't be eventually noticed on a Daily Pick. This is how I think a free market works. It is ok, there are whales with a lot of SP, but that doesn't mean you can't do anything to help the social network to grow.
I want to create some more camaraderie amongst food authors (in a very competitive field that sometimes lack a bit of it).
I can't promise any significant reward on SBD for your chef friend at this stage, but I can promise I will do my best to help food authors on steemit. So if anyone wants to hand some support, it is always welcomed.
Thanks!
Really she writes on facebook quite a bit. I don't think she would be worried about not getting rewarded until she saw one of those posts that are not so good consistently getting $1000+. Then she'd likely get a little angry. It isn't so much people coming here and expecting to get rich. It is people coming here and seeing people consistently getting high pay for average posts.
I think us all being aware about it and talking about it is a step in the right direction.
I will try to convince her to join. She is quite gifted and would do well here. She is pretty set in her ways though so convincing her to come is the challenge. She also keeps herself very busy.
She is a great cook, photographer, videographer, and writer. Seems like the makings for someone that could do well here.
Thanks for your response... it is appreciated.
@dwinblood she shouldn't be angry. Let's try a different approach. Steemit is not even a year old. We can think about ourselfs as "kids" in the steemit society. There are "rich parents" and "poor parents". Maybe a kid wants a brand new toy, he is good, but his parent can't afford it. The other kid gets a toy and maybe it's not as good. But his dad has a right to prefer him, because, afterall, it is his kid. See? That's life.
I'm not related to any "whale" on steemit, but that doesn't mean I can't do nothing. Actually what I do on steemit it's because I like. It's human action, sometimes you get an "instareward" and sometimes you need to build your place with time.
As I said before, the food space is quite competitive, but it is also important to promote camaraderie amongst food lovers, so at this stage maybe don't promote steemit as a place where you get an instareward but maybe where you can interact with other people in your field.
Yes, that is why I said community is how we'll have to solve some of these issues. I was not disagreeing with you. I sent a message to her husband who is also a friend. We'll see if we can get one or both of them. Both are creative types.
That sounds good, it will help grow the steemit social network and the food network in particular!
"@dwinblood she shouldn't be angry."
In the hypothetical scenario described, angry is completely understandable and should be expected. Nepotism masquerading as a meritocracy will naturally cause envy and anger.
Your parent analogy doesn't work. You don't seem to be taking into account that other peoples payouts are diminished by these actions.
If you want to use a parent analogy it would have to be along the lines of a team coach that always gives their child far more time on the field than the other child. If your kid wasn't getting any time on the field despite being an amazing player because the coach keeps putting their less than stellar child in you are going to be mad.
I don't think telling people that their very natural emotions are invalid is the right way to approach this problem.