A discovery while fumbling about Steemit this afternoon - This Post is Sponsored by Wine
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I was fumbling about Steemit as I sometimes do during a quiet moment today/ this afternoon.
And my fumbles lead to the trending page, which I like to inspect from time to time to see what disasters people have spent hundreds of Steem to get in front of the people who haven't yet recognised how worthless the trending page is.
But, much to my surprise, I actually learnt something of value on the trending page today.
@musing or musing.io has received a hefty delegation from Steemit Inc. A 1 million SP delegation in fact. My first thought was:
what the hell is this insanity?
But, if I'm honest, I'd spent all of 1 minute looking into musing.io when I heard about it for the first time a few months ago. But, if they're going to receive such a hefty delegation they're certainly worth looking into some more.
So off I went to take a look at their offerings
And you know what? musing.io is actually a pretty cool platform. Of course, the news of their delegation resulted in an insane number of questions being listed. But if you do a little digging, you'll find some excellent questions, and some incredibly detailed answers.
So then my next question was:
what does @musing look for in an answer when deciding to dish out those newly minted insane upvotes?
Well the only way to answer this question is to start answering questions.... on musing.io.... surprising, yeah?
I discovered that the answer to this question is pretty simple and really kind of obvious. If I answered questions with good quality and well constructed answers, I would receive some decent upvotes. You can see the results for yourself:
That's pretty impressive in my books. I answer a few questions that I find interesting and... can actually answer, and I get a nice reward. It's pretty awesome. And in total I earned around $20 worth of Steem for answering a few questions. I'm happy with that outcome and it was quite enjoyable at the same time.
What's even better is that the rewards are earned via comments. Which means that (unless something changed when HF20 landed) 100% of the rewards go to me rather than losing curation rewards. This is bloody awesome in my books. Not that I'm dark on curation, that certainly has its place. But receiving rewards from a dapp via comment votes? That's pretty bloody awesome.
So... go check out musing.io and see if there are any questions you can/ want to answer. It's a neat platform, and definitely one that I'll be spending some time on.
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I used to answer questions about vermicomposting on Quora and was hoping something like this would come on Steem one day. I tried Musing in the past but like you I didn't stay very long. Will give it another chance. Thanks
Same here :D
I'm glad you took another look, @mazzle. I did the same thing a while back and wasn't all that impressed. I'm not sure I still am, but I think I will try to answer some questions this time and see how it goes.
I can definitely offer opinions on many things. Not sure if that counts as answering the question. Guess the only way to get a feel for what they're wanting is to try it, right?
Give it a shot. I was pretty impressed to be hit with a $7 upvote on an answer.
I did. I like how the idea of someone going through and manually reading the answers, and I also like the ratio that they're upvoting at. They're not voting at 50% or higher from what I've seen, but are applying the votes in a more judicious manner, one, I'm sure, to spread them out, but two, hopefully, to not max out expectations and to keep a perspective on value.
I've seem dApps dole out upvotes before, and I don't think they were proportional in many cases to the value added by the poster. So, hopefully, musing will not only be able to keep their newfound delegation, but use it wisely, to the benefit of all those who use their platform correctly.
There appears to be some people trying to game the system with plagiarized material, though, so hopefully they can discourage that.
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I think I answered a few time when it first started. The only thing I didn't like was, every question I answered make the whole post on my Steem feed. That's a bit over whelming as I usually don't do micro posts (at least, not often). Is it still the same way you know? I would totally give it a try again and see how it goes. Thanks for sharing man! :)
They must have changed that. Everything, including questions, goes to your comments feed now.
I submitted one answer just now. Thanks for the info! :)
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