If people need to pay to get upvotes then this site may as well be be dead already as it's certainly not going to go mainstream. While services like this exist, this site will never take off.
If people need to pay to get upvotes then this site may as well be be dead already as it's certainly not going to go mainstream. While services like this exist, this site will never take off.
#stillbetterthanfacebook
Year old jizz mixed with dogshit is better than facebook. That doesn't change what I said though. Service like this are bad for the site and bad for minnows. The more they're used, the more they need to be used to gain viewers.
I think selfvotes and powerdowns hurt steem more, so I am offering a better alternative.
Is that so much better?
No, it's not better but selling upvotes doesn't solve those problems, it just introduces more. To solve the self-upvote problem, just don't reward self-upvotes. That's already been proposed and it is being discussed.
Well minnowbooster offers whales an alternative to selfvotes and powerdowns
How does minnowbooster offer an alternative to either of those?
Really simple: Why selfvote your comments when you can delegate the SP to minnowbooster and get rewards. Why power down if you can invest your steem into minnowbooster and make that money work for you (while keeping it invested in the chain).
Why delegate your steem power if you can make more money from simply using that power to upvote yourself? If whales wanted to distribute their wealth, they don't need these services to do so.
If whales are powering down, they're probably doing so to cash out and invest in other things. If they wanted to keep that wealth in the chain, they wouldn't be powering down in the first place.