RE: The Old Dog Discusses: Helping Planktons And Minnows on The Steem Blockchain
As @steevc already knows, I'm a bit sceptical of competitions. When I first joined there was very few, there was stuff like @minnowbooster and a couple of Lottery type offerings as well as services offering to upvote you for a couple of dollars. I took a break from Steemit for around four or five months and having come back, or at least notched up my activity a couple of gears I've noticed how every other post or three in row is a competition of one sort or another offering you payouts in return for your hard earned dollars. I was that depressed I wrote a post about it.
Personally, I just think there are some elements praying on the desperate with all these 'Games' I prefer services like @shadowbot who just ask to use your voting power and who in turn use the groups voting power to upvote you. It's always a danger when money is involved, it does tend to bring out the sharks.
Don't forget, you can upvote comments as well as posts!
I understand your thoughts but here I think we need to differentiate between upvote bots, gambling DApps and pure contests.
In a pure contest like the ones I run there is nothing required from the member entering apart from, for example submitting a photograph. In return they get an upvote for their comment, perhaps an upvote for an article that they've written about their submission, a chance for prize money (Steem) which is completely funded by me and a lot of fun!
It's a win win win situation! :)
Does that change your thinking at all?
Oh, I'm behind anything that doesn't require a payment (Dollars) to partake. I don't even have a problem with allowing control of ones voting as is the situation with @shadowbot I just dislike the ones that take $2.00 or SP from minnows who've probably only got $10 or 10 SP to start with.
Don't forget, you can upvote comments as well as posts!