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RE: 1300 USD (~8000 STEEM) + RESTEEM BONUS (1 STEEM) - CateredContent.com ~ ProximaX Sponsored OriginalWorks Writing Contest!
Lol, most of the commentors here wouldn't agree.
"resteem"
:))
Lol, most of the commentors here wouldn't agree.
"resteem"
:))
Then education is in order.
I think everyone agrees that a higher STEEM price would be desirable. Steem is a content delivery platform whose main value proposition is crowdsourced content discovery and rewarding by stake-based voting. Trending is a feature of nearly every Steem front end where people can go and check out the most highly rewards content. Trending is the place that gets the most attention on the entire platform.
What do you think happens when it is possible to buy votes and get a positive or zero return for investment when you buy enough votes to get to Trending? Trending will be filled with advertisements like this. What do you think non-Steemians who stumble upon Steemit will do when they are browsing the internet? They check out Trending. If trending is full of advertisements like this, they will conclude that Steem(it) is garbage and will not give it a time of day.
Steemians who upvote bid bot stacked shit like this are thoughtlessly pissing in their own cereals because they're devaluing Trending and thus Steem. No content that the community has organically deemed the most valuable should have any place in Trending except if the authors of that content are making a financial loss by buying the votes to that get them to Trending. The best possible promoted content is that has all the rewards redistributed to the entire community (done by having @null as the beneficiary).
What do you think they see, when they stumble upon Steem these days? Have a look into my Steem Trending Reviews.
It is an echo chamber for maybe 100 users.
Nothing tht is relevant outside of Steem.
As is this ad here :)
That's no excuse to allow this ad to have a positive ROI in buying votes to get to Trending!
We should do a better job digging up valuable content from the depths of Steem and upvoting it to the bright daylight in Trending! When you see a piece of unrecognized high-quality content, give it a big upvote and use your network by resteeming it. At some point, it will meet the eyes of people with large stake and you'll collect your high curation rewards.
What are you talking about? This post is a 10.000k Steem giveaway, did you lose your mind? I bet my ass, they did not think about a ROI on their post ... they just needed to reach people...... dafuq make sense if you comment, at least a bit. ROI on a 10k Steem giveaways.... DUDE! R I D I C U L O U S
Calm down.
Both Trending and the reward pool are common resources. This campaign is giving prizes to those who advertise their products. They are not sharing them with the whole community. What the downvotes accomplish is remove pending rewards effectively taking some of the money they have invested in this and give it to every other Steemian, not just those who will advertise their products.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeees! That is right! Echo Chamber of a few.
A trending page full of ads, regardless of how much money is spent, or burned, or declined, is still useless and ugly. I like how the tribes have designated ad slots, clearly marked. One should have to purchase STEEM, then buy the slot, and that STEEM should then be burned. It should be impossible to upvote the ad. I don't pay Walmart for leaving a flyer in my mailbox.
That is true. That is precisely why we should double down on downvoting advertisements boosted to Trending. Even if such an advertising slot system were implemented, which should absolutely be done, there is nothing else that can keep the actual content side clean but our downvotes.