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Or maybe it's more because those are the ones I'm going for a little feedback on our to start a discussion on.
This plays a big part in the skew. Perhaps the ones that we are looking more heavily for feedback get noticed more for the lack?
Getting seen brings reward in the people it brings to your page, but then we aren't very good at delayed gratification, are we?
I think that in time this will change more, but when it comes to Steem we have set a culture of "reward for any action". Back in the day, no one really rewarded comments yet people still commented.
Interestingly, Instagram has now got rid of the likes counter for the public. You can only see that for your own page. I guess that removes a layer of the gratification process, in that you can't show it off to others.
afaik this has only been rolled out in some countries, AUS is one of them. However I think that the real reason they did it is so that instead of advertisers approaching influencers directly, they now need to go through Instagram to identify influencers first. From what I hear, it has taken possibility away from those looking to monetize.
Crafty. Although I think they'll still be able to identify influencers via the interaction levels on their posts. In fact, that should be a better indicator, because likes can be bought.
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All of the centralised platforms are going to become more aggressive in their profit needs as they are very top heavy on structure. Funny considering on Steem we are looking for ways to spread more wealth wider. :)