RE: How Does Steemcurator01 Support Affect Authors' Behavior?
My intention with this reply is not to demoralise or disappoint anybody but the idea of fighting bidbots without Steemit making a decision to ban them (which they will not do) is futile. Following @chriddi tagging me, I decided to look at the top 1,000 accounts by "Own SP" - i.e. before they delegate (the lowest power of these users has 10,456 SP). I then removed the steemcurator and booming accounts to see what percentage is delegated.
72%. Equating to just over 89 million Steem Power (I'll need you to remind me how much total steem is currently in circulation).
If I excluded users who have received more than 100,000 power in delegations themselves (which are primarily the upvoting services themselves), this figure increases to 75%.
So the top 1,000 users delegate almost all of their power.
Of those remaining that don't, we have the likes of ctime which is an auto-voting bot, ranchorelaxo who uses his 1,000,000+ power to farm and quite a lot of accounts who have been totally inactive for over a year and have presumably lost their keys (e.g. @ben).
So there's little chance of downvoting bidbot users away in the way that Hive does or perhaps Steemit used to for the sad reason that almost all of the most powerful users have delegated to them.
It makes ac-cheetah's 1,000,000 seem insignificant if a downvoting "war" is what's required.
Sorry, forgot to add:
virtual_supply : 430745373.400 STEEM
current_supply : 399700315.359 STEEM
That's interesting - So current supply is approximately 400 million. Top 1,000 users equate to roughly 100 million with 75% delegated to voting services.
I think your latest stat was the roughly 25% of all steem is with voting bots (roughly 100 million steem) which means that of the remaining 300 million steem in circulation, only 25 million is delegated.
This tells me that people work their way up to roughly 10,000 steem and then delegate most of it to voting bots. But not until this 10,000 figure is reached.
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This is easy to explain. If you delegate upvu less than 10,000 SP, then you get a few cents for your post. For example, this user: https://steemworld.org/@ai1love
He has delegated 5,000 SP and receives 66 cents from upvu. In this case, it is more profitable to just be a blogger and communicate with the community.
If you have more than 10,000 SP, then you are already getting more than one dollar from upvu. For many, this is an income with which it is better to do nothing and get small but stable money.
Sadly, this is also the plan for many “bloggers” - they have a target power which when reached, they delegate it all away and go on “easy street”. A few people I quite liked talking too did this and it was always their plan.
This is another challenge when helping people reach dolphin status and bigger, there’s always a risk that they’re “playing the system”
Your analysis is, of course, frustrating. But this is the situation as of now. Everything can change.
I joined the platform a little over six months ago. My account is now over 7,000 SP. I'm not alone, I think there are many like me. In 1-2 years, the total capacity of our accounts will be a significant amount. If most of these users are involved in the fight against plagiarism, there is hope.
But I agree that we will never be able to fight the big fish, because during this time it will become even bigger. We need to change the basic rules.
It's a big "If". I feel that it's only a handful of users that really care at the moment and I can't see there being an "event" or something that will make people stand up and fight.
Using the word fight makes me want to ask how things are there war-wise? Has anything changed in the last week as the rhetoric from our journalists has changed significantly with the expectation being that the invasion will begin imminently.
According to our authorities, all preparations for Russian troops for the attack have been completed. Now everything will depend on whether there will be an order to attack. That is, the war can begin even today.
The first thing that will be lost is the connection, including the Internet. So I warned the whole SC06 team to keep an eye on the account on Saturdays, as I could suddenly become inactive at any time.
If you are interested in my opinion on whether there will be an attack, I believe that from the very beginning Putin was counting on blackmail and panic. But now he has put himself in a situation where he must attack.
Today the Chancellor of Germany went to him. Yesterday he was in Kyiv. Although it was not said directly, I understand that he told our president that Germany would not support Ukraine's accession to NATO. Now he has gone to Putin with this message.
If you are interested in why we want to join NATO so much, I will tell you that this is the only chance to save the country. Without NATO, Russia will absorb Ukraine, it will just be gradual.
In general, we have not been able to maintain our independence for more than 300 years. That is why no one knew that Ukrainians are a separate nation, with their own language, culture and mentality different from their neighbors.
On Sunday, 30 charters with our oligarchs left Ukraine, most of them with a strong pro-Russian orientation. This suggests that they have more information about Russia's plans. Many countries are closing consulates and relocating embassies, recalling instructors and observers.
So far, I have no positive news for you.
This all sounds very depressing - the news here has improved since you wrote this with suggestions that Russia is even withdrawing some forces. I hope that this is true and you can live in some sort of peace without the threat of war.
I knew 🙂
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. If Russia's excuse for invading Ukraine is through fear of it joining NATO, it demonstrates the threat and exact reason why Ukraine needs to join NATO... interestingly, bringing Russia even closer to bordering NATO allies.
Now we are closely watching the "withdrawal" of troops. They have worked out the logistics of the rapid transfer of troops to our borders, the best places to place artillery have been identified, the time it takes to prepare for the invasion they already know, as well as what still needs to be improved.
I think they will continue to keep us in suspense. But everything can turn into a war, Putin is already at the age when people commit catastrophes. And if you analyze the people around him, the war is possible with a high probability.
Yesterday again a white cyber attack. Several banks and the website of the Ministry of Defense did not work. Interesting times have come :(
Hopefully your government has been able to do the same - seeing where Russia deploys its troops and continuing to strengthen defences accordingly.
If it doesn't come to war, the West needs to see this as a reminder of how dangerous Russia is. And remove any dependency on needing their resources - Gas in particular.
By the way, I wanted to ask where does the UK buy natural gas? Do you extract your own natural gas or buy it in Norway?
I'm not sure - I read that 3% of our gas comes from Russia, far less than Europe's 30%.
I know we've got 8 nuclear power stations and quite a lot of wind farms and solar panels scattered about so not too bad for renewable energy. I've just found this - https://nexusenergysolutions.co.uk/where-does-the-uks-energy-come-from/