Cervantes Magazine Number 22: Trending
@minnowsupvote50y50 is a BOT that, unlike the others, works on the investments of the authors. The total of the profits is distributed 50/50 between the author who invests and the curators. I have invested 5 SBD in this post for example, that means, the first 50 people who vote for it will earn 1.5 SBD. Between 50 and 100 will earn 1 SBD and between 100 and 200 they will earn 0.7 SBD. (Vote quickly for this post before continuing reading)
What makes @minnowsupvote50y50 the most reliable and powerful BOT of Steemit?
Post-truth or emotional lie, is a neologism that describes the deliberate distortion of a reality, in order to create and model public opinion and influence social attitudes, in which objective facts have less influence than appealing to emotions and personal beliefs. Wikipedia
Steemit is like real life, many times we pay for a product (we give upvote) just for its wrapping or the way a seller presents it to us.
Have you already noticed what the article is about and want to remove the upvote that you possibly gave me when reading the presentation?
Keep reading, then decide what to do, in this post you will learn a great lesson about the truths and the post-truths in Steemit.
A bad publicist (successful in real life) is one who uses "human defects" to influence them. By "human defects" i mean those conditioned behaviors that make the human being act irrationally and against their own survival. Social apathy, uncontrolled love for money, sensationalism and individualism are examples.
Since Social Networks took over the digital world, EVERYONE, absolutely ALL users, have become potential advertisers and communicators. Some with more influence and better strategies than others, of course, but each with "equal" chances of success. It is in this same context that Steemit, the whales, the BOTS and the popular people are born (with a lot of Steem Power), BUT also the scammers, the liars, the bad publicists and the traffickers of the postverities are born and grow up.
A post like the BOT @minnowsupvote50y50 is harmful, not only because it represents a legal scam (like almost all traditional advertising), but rather because it represents an insult to the people who come to Steemit to look for something different.
Anyone who wants to continue reading post-truths can go back to facebook.
We are going to unravel the strategy of BOT @minnowsupvote50y50 to understand what are the characteristics of accounts with post-truths and how to combat them.
Let's enumerate those "human defects" the BOT is meant to exploit.
- The creator of the BOT knows that many people just read the title and the intro of a post and vote hastily, waiting for a good reward, and so, everything is reduced to writing a post-truth that "has a hook" at the beginning of an article.
- Many steemians don’t take a minute of their time to enter the BOTS accounts and those of the people with whom they interact, they hardly take a look at the voting power and blindly trust those who have a lot of it, like if influential scammers don’t exist.
- Speed is important, a post-truth has as a secondary objective to take advantage of the phenomenon of virality to infiltrate a system. The people who read the intro, voted for the article and then left, not only fell into a TRAP, they also kept an idea in their heads. It is very likely that one of these people will see another advertisement of @minnowsupvote50y50 and re-vote.
- It is certain that many people will discover the deception, but it is also true that many others will NOT do it and the BOT, inspired by the freedom of the market, will continue to sell its post-truths and earn money.
In the example, @minnowsupvote50y50 offers a compensation plan that is theoretically IMPOSSIBLE, it takes a few readings on Steemit and some simple arithmetic calculations to realize that even the name is an absurdity. But minnows are a community vulnerable to cheating.
If you are thinking about doing a post-truth account, I congratulate you, it will be a pleasure to see you fail at Steemit. Most large BOTS and post-truth whales enter the system with heavy monetary investments. ALL the minnows post-truth attempts I have studied DO NOT get ANY significant gain. "Read and write if you want to get ahead in this network."
OTHER FORMS OF POST-TRUTHS IN STEEMIT
Post-truths are at all levels, sometimes disguised as innocence, it is even possible, that many accounts create content with post-truths without realizing it, appealing to their good strategic capabilities. Now I'm going to number some examples I found in Steemit.
- "Congratulations! The curatorial team @Hipopotamus has selected your post for the list of voted post of the week. Don’t stop following us and use our labels".
- "Invest 1 SBD in the whale @tedoyeldoble and in return you will receive a vote depending on the voting power of the account at the time you voted".
- "Contest" a story, a post "Week 1. The first place will get 50% of the earnings received in this post, the second 30% and the third 20%.
The creators of @hipopotamus (imaginary account) may have good intentions and want to do a big curation project, but its publication is a post-truth, since its voting power is only 6.35 SP and it is paying nothing in exchange for new followers and promotion of their labels.
This is one of the most popular forms of SCAM in Steemit, let's get mathematic. You invested 1 SBD and the whale gave you a vote equivalent to 2.30 $. You are happy and you think you have made a good investment but, at the end of the week your earnings for that post will be 75% divided into two parts, 35% will be deposited in SBD and the other in SP calculated at the average value of Steem in the week.
You don’t understand the way Steemit calculates your earnings? Don’t worry, I’ll summarize it:
To see that beautiful $ 2.30 in your post, which cost you 1 SBD, you will receive 35% in SBD, that is 0.8 SBD and some 0.07 SP. Congratulations! you just lost money
It is worth saying that, in some strategies it may be functional to work with BOTS, but such interaction should be seen as an INVESTMENT and not as a BUSINESS. (On another occasion I will talk about those strategies).
Watch out! Earlier I mentioned that some post-truths are even unconsciously made. Some steemians create contests like this thinking they have built a great strategy. But their voting powers, in many cases, are less than 30 SP, and the post barely receives fractions of a dollar, so the prizes are equivalent to cents. Many minnows that participate don’t bother to review the history of the person making the contest and end up investing valuable hours of their time thinking that they will get a good return.
In advertising, hiding the truth is as perverse as lying.
The definitive formula to avoid falling into the trap of the post-truth.
The first thing is to UNDERSTAND once and for all, that in Steemit, NOBODY WILL GIVE YOU MONEY.
Then, READ the complete articles and QUESTION EVERYTHING that sounds like EASY MONEY.
Investigate the accounts that create contents with potential post-truths, see their wallets and publications, measure their influence on the network, to make sure they are real or are only the product of a dirty communication strategy.
NEVER give an upvote without reading an article, the Steemit algorithm is designed so that the interaction is real, if you only upvote the publications for their value, expecting a reward in return, you will be earning pennies for the rest of your life . Making friends is the essence of every social network, steemit is NOT the exception.
Now you can remove your upvote if you fell in the post-truth of the intro and acted in a hurry. If you learned the lesson, more than your dollars, I'm interested in your friendship.
All this was for the benefit of science, to reveal how complex the post-truths can be.
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Me gusto tu enseñanza no había analizado esto ,gracias.
Un abrazo Naylet, gracias por tus recurrentes lecturas.