You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: My thoughts and analysis on steemit bandwidth problem and why it should be mostly left alone
I was having these bandwidth issues every day when I first started until I got up to like 60 or 80 SP, it does sort of suck, you don't get that 15 plus whatever you buy they just delegate you enough to get up to 15 so you would still have to buy 50 SP to get up to 50. I troll pretty hard though, few people post as much as I. I can't think of any website that would be successful if someone with a few hundred in account value can't actually access the site for a portion of the day. It would be mostly during certain times of day, I would get locked out all morning and then at some point have many megabytes of bandwidth instead of 128k.
Yes it did cost you way more than $52 bucks to find yourself still locked out.
That rationalization holds true for Steemit too, it's free because they make it free but never once do they say that that free is limited and there will be associated cost involved to expand beyond the limitation. Most people join under the assumption that it's a free site where you can earn money by being engaged, no one realizes there is additional cost involved if you want to expand that engagement beyond what the site allocates at the beginning until they get that bandwidth limit has been reached appearing on their screens, then they are shocked to find out that what they earned has to be put back into the system....but, but, but...I thought that was my reward to keep so I could become a whale and spread the wealth by having more power, they don't tell you how difficult it will be to attain that power and that you too are a product being used to uphold the value of steem by putting your steem back into the system instead of what you understood was to accumulate for yourself to become a whale. Yes, logically that may have to be the way it works for it to have value as a crypto currency but legally (....3,2,1 here comes screaming about regulations and decentralization, (which steemit is NOT decentralized) and leaving the hierarchy of the old system rules and regs out of it because that's how you are getting screwed) those terms and conditions have to be listed up front in the terms and conditions when a person commit to the terms and conditions. In other words the white paper and the blue paper have to be up front not something you come across after trying to figure out why you are out of bandwidth. That would put the honesty in the system about how the platform is run but they don't want to do that as it may discourage people from joining. There is no difference here then as if a vacuum salesman says I am going to give you this vacuum for free but doesn't tell you you only get fifteen minutes of free use a day, you call him and say hey what's up with that and he replies you have to power it back up by depositing pennies in the slot on the side...did you really expect something for nothing? He can do that, all except for one thing, he has to tell you all that up front and honestly.
I haven't spent any money, just time I would have spent elsewhere for nothing. there are a lot of FAQs and guides on the start page before you log in.
You were the one who wrote a article and posted it that said this:
I was locked out starting at around 8:00 AM from posting due to bandwidth and have been unable to post anything all day. Now it is like 6PM, I haven't checked for like an hour but it was still bad at like 4:30This has been happening every day for various lengths of time. It is getting incredibly frustrating because I can't do anything on Steemit.com for half the day. I understand that bandwidth is proportional so I have now powered up my STEEM power to triple what I had, which I realize is not shit relative to what other people have but instead of getting better it has gotten worse. It is allegedly in the realm of $300 at this point though and I am still not able to use the site for half the day. I can't imagine any website being successful that was unavailable half the day, much less one that I have put $300 into that locks me out for use during the day. They desperately need to rejigger how they are assigning the bandwidth,
I didn't literally put $300 of my money in, I had that much in account value at the time. And I haven't had the bandwidth problem in a while, and how much did I make from that post?
seven cents.
lol all profit ;) I think I made like $2 on the next rant about bandwidth though
wow, you'd better hurry and rush that into your retirement account.....
Sure it's not much now but when STEEM hits $10,000...
It's not steemit that wasn't unavailable. It's just you hitting your limit. If you delegate SP you can go for a whole year with half of what you pay for Netfilx a year. After the free month of Netflix, you don't ask how can this site succeed when everyone is blocked after the first month.
The difference is that the terms and the cost associated with those terms are upfront. Maybe I missed it somewhere in the Steemit terms and conditions that being on this site will only cost me half of what it'd cost me to be on Netflix for a year.
Read the whitepaper pages 18-24
https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf
It pretty much describes everything. Whitepaper is the 2nd most important thing in any crypto project. There is a link to whitepaper and bluepaper in https://steemit.com/welcome page which you visit right after your first login.
I've read the white paper but I found that reading about some other dispute and someone recommended people should read it, curiously I did. I haven't read the new revised one. Anyway, fine print comes before sign up not after...legally anyway.
You are not the only one either that has complained. I just wait till it reloads.