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RE: Is It Ok To Make a Crappy Post Once In a While?
Thank you for the kind words @owasco 🙂
Yes, I also see many beginners trying their best, and despite the newsteem curation efforts, it's still not reaching everyone. There are definitely some components to the curation system that could be improved in my opinion, but I'm hard pressed to think things will get a whole lot better anytime soon. With Steem much of it has to do with who you know, how much time you have to spare, and a whole host of other variables. Luck plays a part sometimes too lol.
I wish VP was unlimited so I could help small users more. (of course we know that isn't possible with a limited share pool.)
I really appreciate you taking the time to comment and share your thoughts on this topic!
I'd like to see more discussion about how the upvote curve has affected the new users, smaller communities, and low paying posts. I used to upvote low payout posts and at least they'd get a penny from me. Now my 100% upvote is nearly worthless on small account posts, yet my VP is depleted just a s fast. Both are deterrents to upvoting low paying posts. So what's a newbie to do? They can pander to big accounts and hope one of them upvotes generously (which in my experience large accounts do not do, they want to make money too) donates to them or gives them a loan (delegation), same hopes someone without money has in real life. It pains me to see a great post earn .02.
Absolutely, you're on point.
There's a dust threshold which is a protection against people creating mass accounts with intention to vote farm. It's sad that this protection needs to exist, but that really tells you something about human nature doesn't it.
Unfortunately this dust threshold hurts the majority of small accounts. I'm not sure what the dust threshold is currently. I'm gonna have to try to find out, because I would hate to think comments I reward with 0.01 aren't getting paid out, but it's very possible they aren't.
The new 50/50 system seems great to some, but I have some mixed opinions about it actually. If you think about why this was actually done, it seems like an undeniable conclusion, to protect the wealth gap.. (What will happen with a bunch of consistent middle class content creators who also curate, weighed up against curating whales that don't create content in the old system?..) Share pool distribution and curation of course works on vesting shares, so smaller stakes growing takes away the power of the whales. This system of course makes that gap easier to maintain.
And as with rich vs poor, what the hell can we do about it? Not much...
The best thing I've seen out of newsteem with the free downvotes is bid bots turning to manual curation, but there are quite a few that I've yet to see a vote from, so... What gives? As I said, I think you are very much on point with your assertion to what is going on.
That is why I think consistency is key here, because it's hard enough to earn as it is, but if you're consistent then your likeliness of getting a decent vote every now and then is increased substantially. Not to mention consistency is the key to improvement with most things in life.
I am posting much less often and trying like mad to learn more about cameras, images, formatting, tagging, pimping posts, titles and all the stuff that does not really interest me (titles excepted) and very very rarely do one of the whales or curating accounts notice my excellent posts. It's getting very frustrating. I did manage a curie yesterday, my first in many months. therising, therealwolf, upmewhale, ocdb (even though I am on ocdb white list - they've upvoted me once in over a year on steem) etc ignore me completely, and I have no idea how to change that. Cozy up to some curators? My content is always excellent, there are no toss off posts from me, ever. I spend at least two hours a day curating, but my upvote is so small, and made even smaller by the curve, that a good day of curating renders me .5 steem, the equivalent of 5 US cent and hour. The small accounts got hit really hard.
The dust threshold is .02 as I understand it. I was upvoting comments before the fork to draw readers to my stuff - they sure don't make anything curating my stuff. With the curve, I will never be able to give an upvote to a comment that pays anyone anything, but I suppose will go into the pool to benefit big players, just like the remaider of my uvotes that's not given to the posts I upvote. Not sure that makes sense.
I understand your frustration. In my opinion, focusing on improving skills which interest you and give you a sense of fulfillment should always take precedence, and the fact that you're focusing your energy in this direction is wonderful. I've had my eye on your blog since you started on Steem, (as an eSteem curator scrolling through the tag.) and there is no question in my mind whatsoever that since you've started your blogging on Steem, your focus has been to improve any which way you can, and your blog has come a long way in this respect, no question about it!
There are some hard truths about how things work in this environment, and many of the large curating accounts are more apt to curate posts which they know will make more rewards. It shouldn't be that way, and is an exemplification of greed at its fullest, but that is just how it is here unfortunately. The ultimate question to the low earning accounts is "well how the heck can I start making more so that I will get recognized and/or curated by these large accounts?" There's no easy answer to that, but I think just continually working to improve is the best any of us can do.
I saw you received a Curie, congratulations, it was well deserved!
In terms of OCDB, they do their best, and I used to curate for them. (I stopped due to time management and having to cut back on my time spent on Steem. I was spending 8-12 hours a day curating at one point for 3 curation teams.) I don't think they intentionally are ignoring you. I know the team and they really are some good people who do their best for the ecosystem. I've gone periods of time not getting their vote, and at times got a little frustrated myself, but they genuinely do their best to curate fairly.
One thing I've noticed bloggers here doing, is timing their post drops to when certain large accounts are curating. It's not something I'm really willing to take the time to do myself, just because I don't want to mold my time around the "possibility" of a vote, but it's definitely an option.
Well, hopefully you'll get a payout on the 70% vote I gave your initial comment lol. It's probably not even practical to curate comments unless you have a stake of 10k Steem or better. I should probably just refrain from doing that but I like to give a "token" of appreciation for peoples time you know?..
Either way, I think you're doing a wonderful job. Please try not to let the system here get you down too much. You never know what could happen. One day some new large investor might come in, love your content and start upvoting every one of your posts 100%. It does happen..
I do believe consistency is a good thing here, but there is certainly nothing wrong with the mentality of "quality over quantity!"
Keep up the great work @owasco, and thank you so much for your time and thoughts!
Oh thank you for that supportive comment! I have to admit, a comment is far more valuable to me than a big upvote.
Now I remember our earlier contact via esteem. You exude positivity, even when you're doling out criticism. I'm so happy our paths have crossed.
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