RE: Madeira Portugal - Travel video ¦ SJCAM Sj5000x Elite - GoPro alternative
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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Hahaha, not even I was talking about my feelings. It was a metaphor! You are taking everything very literally.