RE: SMT Progress Is Occurring
Yeah, I'm not sure there can ever be a way to make no person able to get an advantage in what is seen. Whether it is the amount their vote is worth or how popular they are as a person, some metric will make some people flocked to more than others and those others will always be distraught.
The alternative is sort of forcing everyone to view everyone's content, which doesn't even really make any sense. Keep in mind that this is a SATURATED site, with repeated information, the same stories by different people, etc. and whether something is even a 'good' article or valuable at all is Always going to be subjective, so I'm not sure it can ever be escaped that gaining an advantage will be the only way to be the MOST successful.
You have two options to get recognized quick:
- Pay to have a high upvote so that people want to read and upvote you and interact with you in hopes of you reciprocating/paying them.
- Create content that is so far above others that it can't be ignored. Some groundbreaking idea, or some new product that interests people, etc.
There really will never be another option to get recognized quick (you can grind and grind away with reasonable content and build up a following more slowly of course) and I'm not sure if there even should be.
SMTs though will at least create more upward mobility, but it will still all come down to whether or not your idea for an SMT is valuable and people want to invest steem.
I was not ready to pay the bots for upvotes, and so maybe I could not gather a large fan following. I know that there are only two ways, by which you can gain popularity but there should be something else that keeps people engaged here.
Steem was supposed to be a social media platform, but is now being limited to a mere blogging site.