New To Steemit- Joined a few weeks ago- Here's what it looks like to me
I joined earlier this month- seems as if this site isn't so much about quality content as it is about having 'whales' who have lots of 'steam', liking your posts. It seems as if the folks who got started early on here and use bot technologies, and alliances and such have become the whales and then there's the rest of us. I guess the question becomes is there any more room for whales or has this ocean reached it's limits and most will simply remain minnows, even if they are posting quality content UNLESS they spend more time joining alliances and 'playing the game' with $$$$$$ being the objective as opposed to sharing quality content.
Perhaps my take on this will change but a few weeks in that's the scene I see here.
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I disagree, and I've been on here since yesterday only. This Social Media platform will be what we Steemians make it into, I can see that content that other Steemians in the community is very varied, fun, informative challenging etc.
I agree in that there is other quality content here my point is I do not think that great content= steemit 'success' , conversely steemit success doesn't necessarily require good content.
You would think that and I do so in a way too , but I have to agree with @pqlenator, it's up to us , sure there is a lot of politics by now , and as far as I know you should be careful with how you thread since everything stays , but yes we can make a platform that works , for us, it's our responsibility if we choose to , my problems are that not many people read and the feed spams where everyone shares his day is a bit too much , ie you can't get quality and quantity without burning out or repeating something, and the economy on here can use a bit of work , it's hard to start up , if you have no experience it's a uphill battle, I've already got wrecked so to speak , registered a while ago and took it slow at the start, now I have less steem then a newly registered account, I guess I should have started the blog before when rewards were huge , but it was new for me and I wanted to learn , also the time aspect , It's too much commenting posting and checking the new posts , Can't keep up, it's like a job with the hours it takes. And the rewards suck for a minnow, others get tons off just curating, most of us get fractions. But that's it for my rant , Never give up, I have a few posts lined up and have started a challenge of posting every day , but I've turned it into 30 posts with my time wasted on other people's works :) , Cheers mate, don't let the man get you down :)
If you want to grow and give this platform a chance , we might as well make the best of it :), check back if you have any questions , I will answer what I can based on my ~3 months
Thanks for the solid, well thought reply. I'm thinking the best way a newbie can gather steempower into figure out what all the bots deem as posts that will do well. I guess my overall beef is it seems far too $$$$ driven- just like almost everything else. I for one say bots should be forbidden somehow (technological idiot saying that mind you)- they have no place in a forum like this and encourage smart manipulation more than quality content. I like you will plug away at it and see how things go : )
I thought so too , but it's kind of lame to reverse engineer , basically the more categories you tag the bigger the chance you will get a vote and then a trail of votes form the follow bots, best case scenario would be to make a @curie trail , but that would require you to make a good post anyway, the best way to gather steempower is get whales to vote you since a vote can give you .20 ++ up to 10$ maybe , so 2 votes outweigh 150 :D
and yes its a rolling wheel and rarely do people stop and listen :), when I gave a few days to think about the platform I came up with the fact that it has a chance to e something different , or just a clone of "life" ie rich get richer :D and others are viewed as failiures because they didn't succeed either because of lack of effort(so its agreeable , or by inability to go back on your morals for profits) , so yeah it feels eerie , and it's tough at the start, I can't keep up with everyone and until i make some Power I'm not much help anyway :D at least on the incentives side :)
check out the moosey for instance 2 posts 1 tanks 1 gets berniesandersed :D
Welcome. I'm new to only 2 wks. Good luck. I'll follow you if you follow me?
sure- thanks!