The Worst Thing A Writer Can Do Is Make a List! - I Present a List
So, of course, I've made a list.
Lists always make people mad... Either they wanted to be on the list or they didn't want to be on the list...
Hardly anyone says... I don't care about the list.
Your Top 30 Authors by payout last 30 days!
1 haejin $3,437.788
2 coldsiksu $1,835.176
3 traf $1,589.967
4 majes.tytyty $1,436.376
5 gooddream $1,353.580
6 steemcleaners $1,277.187
7 angelinafx $1,272.109
8 zer0hedge $1,184.907
9 deathcross $1,180.559
10 banglatech $962.087
11 creativecrypto $951.971
12 hatu $872.293
13 ronaldoavelino $869.920
14 jrcornel $850.667
15 donekim $750.367
16 onepercentbetter $705.510
17 oendertuerk $689.912
18 slowwalker $663.086
19 ocd $660.417
20 raindrop $659.417
21 chbartist $659.372
22 flamingirl $653.455
23 zzings $640.219
24 firepower $639.517
25 htliao $637.292
26 tarazkp $622.214
27 abitcoinskeptic $590.693
28 etherpunk $589.124
29 discernente $565.003
30 me-tarzan $561.813
Are you surprised?
Curious?
Think it is the best use of inflation? By no means am I saying it's not, I mean how could I justify that answer?
If it is all about Freedom of Stake, it is perfectly and fairly earned stake.
I have mixed feelings....
@whatsup,
They earn their stake, and we earned few yeah very few $$$ when comparing to them! I also having mixed feeling, but it's again their stake and that's how they utilized it!
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I can honestly say that I haven't read a single post by any of those authors in at least the last 30 days. But I'm pretty sure they don't care about how many people actually read their posts.
@abitcoinskeptic is worth a look. Varied posts and most of them genuinely interesting (he is Korean and he visits many historical sites takes great photos and provides context and history). Despite his steem handle most of his posts aren't crypto related...
Thanks for the shout out (I'm Canadian, I just lived in Korea for a really long time). I actually try to post and probably spend too much time doing it.
I follow around 5 of these authors and consistently like the content of tarazkp and slowwalker. Slowwalker doesn't really engage people on that account, but I like his pictures of Korean temples and nature (maybe his posts seem extremely high, but he is now a whale and I think organic).
I'm only on that list because I use bidbots. 590 a week sort of looks bad, but I don't make anything near that and if we look at Steem as a mooney making thing (especially at this stage and these prices), it just doesn't make any sense to be Steeming.
My average weekly earnings are about 75 Steem and I've been counting since I started posting every day in January 2019. That 16.28 SBD or 13.16 USD a week. I probably spend at least 90 minutes average per post when I include research, photos, writing, editing, responding to comments. That's around 9 hours a week or less than 2 dollars an hour. I can easily do freelance work (that I enjoy) for around 40 dollars an hour.
If I consider I paid around 3000 dollars for my Steem and I engage others too, it gets worse. Obviously, I'm not writing posts for the money. I could make more money collecting cans and bottles, lol.
I know some of the community doesn't like it, but I'll follow the consensus and the consensus obviously supports it if there isn't abuse. Last I heard @theycallmedan was saying he won't target posts less than 200SBD after HF21.
OCD and is great. and I like OCDB the best and hope it gets a lot more stake after HF21 or at least some copy cat bots with different caps or metrics or whatever. I wouldn't miss most of the other bots. However, the new ones that eat up scot-tokens and vote for Steem are an interesting concept. Thinking how Steem would work if everyone just got 10 cents a post in an interesting concept.
Him and tarazkp are the only ones I read that are up there just cause of ocdb. It's pretty sad that not many more authors use it which would mean the max bid would be lowered and it wouldn't have this big effect on the top author payouts. I'm hoping demand and interest will increase with HF21.
Other than that I recommend checking out the OCD compilation posts, all of the rewards go towards the curators who find the posts.
Thanks, I've never fully figured out what OCD is.
Didn't mean to turn this into promo. :P
OCD? oh that's right another list i'm not on. conspirators everywhere lol.
You mean ocdb? Also you don't post, also you're not called Michael
yes x 3. lol. That other dude is probably loaded from all the gifts that where meant for me ;)
The post rewards are basically an incentive to find overlooked and good authors of most genres of content. On a daily basis they nominate posts they find, the curators vote from within discord which posts should be featured onto the daily compilation post (some standards and rules), then they get posted with short descriptions and links. The curators get 1 of OCD's daily votes on the comp post where as the rest of the daily votes go to the posts they found.
So basically follow @ocd and open up the posts and you'll find curated content that deserves the votes you're willing to give, the short descriptions help letting you know if there's content you might be genuinely interested in to read more and possibly follow that author which we usually focus on being new but not easy to do with the times.
Lately we've been lacking authors to curate though (no surprises there with current price) so we're looking to adapt a bit and with the coming changes in HF21 it's a good time to take a short break, see what else we can do to help Steem and focus on that until we can go back to fully curating again. Will be posting about some of the changes :soon:.
I actually agree. He is great and I enjoy him as well, I also often read and enjoy Tarazkp who loves to write and also engages with others.
A number of them don’t really write anything. Lol
WTF how come i'm not on the list? List must be wrong! lol
Vote even harder!
I made it onto a list!! :D
@Raindrop is "organic" - it is a sweetsssj alt. =D
About 70-80% of mine (will have to do the math one day) is organic support. The rest is @ocdb.
What is the best use of inflation? Eventually it will likely be to reward investors of various kinds who support the stability of the chain, with content producers earning on SMTs, but that is likely some way off.
Raindrop is Traf... maybe Traf is sweetssssssssssssj 👀
Ah.. @twinkledrop is the one I was thinking.... Follow that rabbit hole of accounts
Ah, I thought it was one of the 10 sweettsssj ones, I must be confused... So many of them to remember
I always knew that @haejin and @traf are by far the best authors within STEEM, and your list completely confirmed my opinion.
And now, as you mention him, I just checked @coldsiksu and can't help but deeply admire his extensive, elaborated posts about ... about ... whatever, he clearly is also one of the best authors I have ever read.
I had never seen it before... So I looked just now... that's hilarious.
It's been along time since I've seen a haejin post, I could've swear he was powering down! Do another of these list for the first 4 weeks after hf21 to see what changes! Really hoping to see some top players stop the execissive self voting with the new incentives!
He always powers down but his whale account Ranchorelaxo does not. Haejin is also in the group of people who transfers the most steem out per month
😂😂😂 Cmon. How can anyone say that Steem is not a joke when they look at this.
How people can easily take a great concept and perverse it into a pay yourself scam where the community is afraid to speak up or take action not to lose the scraps they get.
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Yeah there is truth in that.
I guess I'm trying to get people to think about exactly where the inflation is going.
We can blame authors or blame stakeholders, but I don't see many putting out data....
Where are we bleeding... not all of these accounts are suckers at least 2 of them are in my list of people I enjoy. But 2 out of 30 is low.
We need to focus and identify how to pin point those who should be targets after hf21
Who is to blame is obvious. Stakeholders are almost exclusively to blame. Their actions inform the community behavior.
I mean i wrote about it few days ago.
The question is will the community ever revolt against fuckers like the guys on this list.
I think they wont. People just arent brave and/or dont give a damn.
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I’m gonna say don’t give a damn. Most want someone else to use their SP on them.
They will bitch at you when you can’t even hit 10% of their earnings. Best part, those who complain the loudest usually have no stake in the game.
could they stimulate the economy... Yes.
Do they... Some do, some don't.
Do they have to? Nope the idea of DPOS is that the largest stakeholder make the decisions.
Because they have the most to win or lose. I totally agree with that concept....
But in no way does it make them good at it. Mining a token with broken instructions is a cool skill.
It just has nothing to do with being able to build and sustain an organization that does anything.
So, it isn't about being evil or good... It is about a skill set that they frankly don't seem to have.
Or they view Steem as just that, a fund printing machine for other ventures.
I wouldn't say Haejin has zero kills. He doesn't care about Steem. He's more concerned about the value he could extract here for his other projects.
Some of these names are familiar...some others not. And while Haegin’s earnings are “organic” most of the others use way too many bid bots. Their earnings are 1/10 th of that if not less.
Bottom line is that: A) imagine that cery same list without the use of bid bots
B) Definitely the worst use of inflation
I don't really call getting upvotes by your very own whale on all your posts 'organic' LOL
By my very own whale?
Who are you again?
Well unless you are haejiin .. you likely don't have your very own whale.
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Yeah interesting points. Stakeholders blame the authors, or steemit inc. The authors blame stakeholders or steemit inc.
I'm saying good and bad actors come in all the categories and there are a few good guys on the list as well.
Where is your name in this list? Though your votes are organic, you are obviously one of the top 100 authors in the world on steem.
Actually, by "Earnings" I do not make the top 500.
Now Please make a list on how much these account values have gone down over the last 30 days lol.
Haha ^^^ This is a great point.
At our top price my own account was worth $94,000. Not it is worth 3k ish. I have more steem now than I did back then.
I don't know when it will dawn on the some large stakeholder that stacking tokens isn't bringing them value
Wow, that is a big difference, but you only have 7.982 SBD in your wallet. I do not think it will ever dawn on any of the large stake accounts what they are actually doing to themselves and I do not think it matters anymore. Good users will eventually overtake the bad users.