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RE: Blogging, Social Media... and Steemit's "Coming of Age?"
Because that's what it IS — PROMOTED CONTENT.
That's a really good point. It's almost like they are confusing "going viral" with playing an ad on millions of webpages. If you pay for something to "go viral" most other places on the web, people see right through it, because it will have "Video will play after ad" or "Promoted content" slathered all over it. The fact that on Steemit you can pay to be in the same space as a genuinely successful homegrown post is kinda off putting.
But I do like your broader commentary on just making your blog into whatever you want it to be.
Precisely my point. And there's a certain irony in that, in the sense that Steemit was built on this whole "freedom" and "non-censorship" thing... transparency.
And then we're basically hiding that a bunch of people pay $100s to make themselves look popular. No... your shit isn't "popular," it's just promoted to the heavens to appear that way.
I've always thought that was bogus.
I also think people should be completely free to buy as many bidbot votes as they want... that's their issue and choice. But let's call a spade a spade.