The Worst Post on Steemit
I present to you the worst post I have ever seen on Steemit:
It's a picture of a twist tie and a piece of popcorn and some total bullshit about Horus.
The WORST post I have EVER seen on ALL of Steemit!! That's quite an accomplishment, @novert - there is serious shit out there.
Naturally I made it better, because that's the best way to utilize trash:
the original was worth $302 at the time of this writing!
Who do you think is gaming this shit?
What shitpost will tomorrow bring??
💛 Sara!
Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh @saramiller, you sure do have a way with words, and cuss words especially seem so funny in the way you use them.
The shit you added to this post is much more artistic than the original post itself. Way to alchemize that shit!
Making you laugh is one of my frequent motivations :)
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Yes, Until now, there was no way to prevent this type of behavior, but now i feel that time has come for Steemit Inc., to make some changes and prevent this kind of abuse. Nowdays i can notice considerable amount of changes and testing happening on the Steem Blockchain, the point is that now we need to have an extra layer of safety on Steemit and that makes the platform even better & secure.
I don't believe in "rules" that restrict all users because of a few bad actors, and I don't think regulation from a centralized authority is a long term answer.
This community has identified a problem.
Now, it's up to the free market to come up with a solution!
Hmmm, well, this makes me want to stop posting my short stories (which take many hours to draft, edit, polish, post and find appropriate pictures for) to SteemIt and go to a different platform. Yikes. My thought however, is that this shit is being pushed just for that reason....to get good quality content off of Steemit, to sabotage the system. Alright then, I'll stick around a while longer, hopefully the people with the most to lose here will work together on some good solutions. We'll see.
This shit can be totally discouraging and does not make Steemit look very good.
I can understand your frustration with putting a lot of energy into something for seemingly very little returns, but I hope it doesn't turn you off completely! It's an interesting ecosystem here, and strategies for success are constantly being refined.
Are you utilizing support like @minnowsupport and @curie?
Nah, I don't go away that easily ;) Mind you, I've only been here a couple/three weeks, however some of the crap going on here sort of pops out at you pretty quick. The post you've ripped is particularly scummy...pumped up by the pay bots, then reinforced by the Bitconnect scammers (trevonjb, craig-grant) who are chucking their toys out the pram cause other whales are silencing them here (so now I guess they want to burn the house down? I dunno).
Anyway, there are definitely some great resources here. Yep, I know about curie and have had a few stories upped by them. I've seen @minnowsupport around though I thought this was just a pay bot like all the others....guess I need to investigate it, thanks for the heads up :)
I just checked it out - he's been doing this for a long time and it's bullshit.
Let the flagging begin.
Disappointing to see such low integrity. Flag on!
Wholeheartedly agreed @saramiller. I am seriously bamboozled how some of these shite-post are making so much on steemit. I'm a bit out of the loop on steemit for the last couple of months, but everytime I check in I see these post that are somehow gaming the system, and putting next to no effort into their post and calling it art.
A lot of shit is making a lot of money because we now have bots where you can buy upvotes.
I actually think that's an ingenious free market product, but the "problem" is individuals with "get rich quick" mindsets and low integrity.
I believe that providing value to the community is key to success.
Posters of low quality content will disappear.
While I hope you're right, the amount of shit on the trending pages has increased exponentially. That makes Steemit look like shit.
LOLZ!
bots maybe?
Fo sho, top 4 votes are from paid upvote bots. Next 2 votes are from known scammers.
Bots are such a turnoff... I hope Steemit ends up banning voting buying bots. It makes people feel like the system is rigged. And it sorta is..
I wouldn't say the system is rigged, but it's definitely a game and the "rules" aren't exactly disclosed.
I think bots are great, but it depends on what action they are programmed to perform. What is the intention of their creator?
To me, restricting all users (such as by banning bots) is not a fair or just solution because a few bad actors game the system.
To me, the ultimate solution comes down to individual revolutions in values - this particular post is an obviously a move to earn money for oneself with no consideration for the whole. I wish I had a solution for inspiring people to erase their greedy programs and replace them with care for each other, but other than using my own life as an example...I'm really at a loss.
So then if people are what they are and we can't change them, and if regulating everyone's freedom isn't the answer, what can we actually do to make this the best place it can be ?
Maybe the conversation this inspires will be more valuable than the shit post. Maybe it will be the shit post that actually changes things and we'll end up giving thanks for it!
I actually went to that person's profile, and they've done a series of these type of posts. I actually found it pretty cool. Brought up the ideas of "What is art?" "What can be art?" "Turning Trash Into Treasure" - it made me think of my "Brush Paper" paintings. I'm not sure if the post is any more "obviously a move to earn money for oneself with no consideration for the whole" than anyone else's posts on here really. Other than the fact they're using bots to upvote... Just wait until Coca-Cola and McDonalds figure out how relatively cheap it is to get on the trending page here. I worked in advertising for 17 years, 10-20 thousand bucks a week (which is peanuts for them, the total market cap of Steem is pretty much peanuts for them) and a bot and they could pretty much take over Steemit's trending pages.
The average social media user trying Steemit for the first time isn't going to care about the reasons behind them, they're going to be more like me - totally turned off when bots SPAM their first few posts and that's it, "This place is infested with bots, bye"
I guess there's some bots that are helpful and useful, but, Steemit is SUPPOSED to be based on content, and actual people engaging with each other based on that content. Otherwise it could be a slippery slope towards ending up like Facebook. That's my 2 cents anyway.
$302? Wow.
Ha! Nice modification. Do you mind if I ask what you are using to gif-ify?
http://gifmaker.me/
google search "free gif maker" returns some decent options.