RE: Madeira Portugal - Travel video ¦ SJCAM Sj5000x Elite - GoPro alternative
First of all thank you for taking the time to explain this to me. I haven't been around for the last couple of months and apparently things have changed.
Nevertheless I find the general reaction a bit inappropriate. I mean, there seem to be so much hate going around. Those downvotes came so fast, probably most of them didn't even took a look at my content...
Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm still figuring out the new system), but by downvoting aren't you making the reward pool even smaller?
Anyway, at the end of the day I think we all want the same thing. We all want steem to grow and to develop. We're all talking about making steem appealing to the masses, more mainstream, and yet, if you look at the popular posts they're all about projects, great projects, but still projects nonetheless. My point is that projects don't attract the masses, mainstream stuff attracts the masses.
So, yes I did promote my travel video in order to get it where people can see it. Let's face it, we all know there are very slim changes of new users seeing your content if you're not promoting it.
I honestly didn't think it would harm anyone. I even looked for a service that explicitly said they've switched manual curation.
I'm having trouble seeing how this kind of attitude is helping the community. I'm feeling bullied after putting a lot of work in my travel video and wanting to share it with as many people as I can.
But what do I know? I'm just the average user...
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The steem are returned to the reward pool when people downvote.
I do not think the downvotes here are meant in any way hateful. It is more like cleaning the trending page of bought votes. I agree that it would be good for onboarding people on the platform if the content of the trending page showed more diversity and something that non-tech people could mirror themselves in. Art, travel, daily life. But by promoting your post with bought votes I think you kind of contradicts yourself. Should people go to a trending page where not the best content, but the user who pays the most is represented? I understand that you didn't know, and hope you aren't scared off by the downvotes. The community is simply trying to turn things around.
I did see the video by the way! Fine editing.
Doesn't downvoting everything that was promoted, regardless of the content or quality, defeat the purpose?
Shouldn't there be a filter of some sort? Maybe it's a good thing that some of those posts are there and the only way (for now) to get them there is promoting them.
I mean even though I can see your point, it's kind of contradicting...
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The promotion business is not an official Steem service and it doesn't add anything to the community. It was from the beginning a way to game the steem system and exploit it, and because steem was founded in ultra libertarian principles people was very much in doubt about how to judge them. Was it free enterprises filling a niche product or was it a smart leach trick that would eat Steemit as fires are eating the Amazonas. Sadly it is obviously the latter.
I am all for a promotion system so people who want to have their posts seen could pay for that. Maybe the money could be burned, maybe something else that would benefit the community and make the competition for the best post to be on top a reality.
I would gladly upvote a post like your's if it didn't use bidbots. I didn't downvote as you are already having a loss, but I do regret all the Steem you sent to those cynical bidbots owners who is cashing out all the time sending the steem down and down again.
I'm not sure how exactly the bots are bringing the Steem price down, but that's beside the point.
"I would gladly upvote a post like your's if it didn't use bidbots."
If it weren't for the bidbots you haven't have seen my post...
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Haha, that's the crazy girlfriend argument: "I felt ignored by you, so I smashed your grandmother's punchbowl!" If you had commented on one of my posts there's a fair chance I would have checked out your profile. Commenting is the best way to get attention here.
I wasn't looking for a vote specifically from you :)
I was just saying, being able to promote a post made it possible for people like you to come across my post.
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I know. Read again. Hint: the punchbowl is Steem, not my feelings.
😅 Nobody was talking about your feelings. Relax 😉
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