How much of the rewards pool has been 'drained' by SteemSports?
I have seen many complaints about SteemSports draining of rewards pool. Some claims were as absurd as 50%.
I've decided to look into the historic data, and see for myself.
| Month | % Received | % Kept |
|---|---|---|
| December 2016 | 4.37% | 2.27% |
| November 2016 | 5.73% | 3.15% |
It turns out, that SteemSports has received a much lower % of rewards pool as claimed.
It is also worth pointing out that almost half of the rewards received have been re-distributed, 30% to Steemit writers and 70% to the players as Steem Power.
Source code is available on GitHub
Honestly, when I show my friends the steemit platform and how it works. One of the best and easiest selling points is to show them how steemsports works, because they say something along the lines of:
I reply yes, then I help them sign up for steemit. So I don't see the bad part here. @steemsports def brings more people to the platform than turns them away and I think it is a cool idea. So what if the people who write it and do all the work keep some of the rewards pool, if that bothers you don't take part and do your own thing.
I personally dislike this kind of statement (e.g. "Do your own business and don't bother other's business") because it is based on false presumption. There is no other's business unless it is based on Steem's reward system. Instead, it is our business, so every STEEM/SP holder can raise voice on it.
Exactly I think people are missing the big picture. This can bring regular people into Steemit rather than just crypto people. I think tuck summed up the real issue in his recent cartoon.
why you not give him your own money from your own pocket?
Another question... how in your opinion this model could scale?
It scales by attracting more users into the ecosystem at all which builds Steem into a self-sustaining currency and economy of sufficient scope to develop a significant network effect yielding increasing returns. In that sense it scales the exact same way as paying bloggers (or, alternately neither do), but likely better because it is more accessible, engaging, and aligned with the prevailing attention spans and expectations of today's social media and popular app users.
BTW, if you want to reward blog posts, why not do so out your own pocket?
I think steemsports would be great of they limit it to 1 game per day, seeing up to 4 games on the top of the trending page was not good for perception, but 1 game would be great to bring sports and gambling lovers onto the steemit platform
Most people should not be looking at Trending (unless they have a particular interest in that sort of leaderboard) and I disagree with the current site design that often puts it up by default. It is a statistical summary that should be available for people who want to find it.
The users who play and follow the posts along with the writers who work on the posts likely enjoy and have somthing to contribute to more than one post per day (there is certainly more than one sports game/topic to post about per day). I don't know what the right number is, and what ends up on Trending (the statistical leaderboard) should be a function of how voter value posts and topics relative to other posts, not based on an arbitrary quota system decided by you or me. When there is one particular topic or type of posts that has captured interest and is driving growth then it will inevitably dominate trending, whether that happens to be steemsports or some other sports posts or something else entirely.
Another sort of page aside from the current trending that shows, for example, the top few posts from each of the most active tags or even a set of randomly chosen tags might be useful as well, to show variety.
So.. in that case... we have a serious problem if we consider rest of the world as "most people":
Trending page is first page shown to new users!
Since when is it the community's job to tell an individual account when it can post? If you don't want them to post often don't vote for it more than twice a day.
It isn't trending because they post, it's trending because people like you upvote it. and frankfully, I am okay with 4 articles trending, so I play and upvote. If you're not, don't play or upvote.
I muted steemsports, so I dont see the games, but new users who come to steemit for the first time, the trending page is the first thing they see
Then it is their job to decide what they think. If someone's not gonna join the site because of a silly reason like that, maybe we don't need them. I think to get new members we need to focus less on removing steem sports and more on marketing our product, adding more and more features to the structure of the website, and making the website more aesthetically pleasing. Trying to tell an account when they can and can't post isn't going to get any of those things accomplished.
That's a fair point. 1 or two games per day would be fine.
Don't you lose value if you post more than four posts per day? Isn't that already a thing?
quoting myself:
Is this a serious question? You're asking a user why, instead of signing up another user that is given a pittance from Steemit, Inc's holdings so that they can actually use the platform, he is not just giving that potential new user some of his own money? Do you know what the purpose of the @steemit account is and why new users are given a certain amount of SP when they join?
And as @smooth asked in response to your comment - instead of voting on posts, why don't you just give people money from your own wallet? Wouldn't that be the morally righteous thing to do? Then you'd never have to worry about contributing to the "draining" of the rewards pool. Sounds like a win-win based on what I've seen regarding your ideas for the platform.
And this can easily be changed. However, the stake-weighted voting system cannot. Which one do you think is more likely to happen? Completely changing the STEEM/Steemit concept and the designed system, or displaying different posts on the landing page?
Lolz, you are missing the free part of my point. Money from my own pocket actually costs me money. An up-vote on steemit costs nothing.
It amazes me how these people pretend that it's "their" money that is being used for post payouts. Sure, you can argue that it costs stakeholders by diluting their stakes, but this is an equal dilution, so no single stakeholder is losing a larger percentage than any other. Whether @steemsports gets the vote or some Commodore 64 game review gets it is irrelevant. It's a fixed pool that dilutes everyone.
So, no - it doesn't cost anyone a single penny out of their own pocket to vote on a post. And it doesn't deprive anyone of a single penny either. That penny was never yours and it isn't yours until you receive it in a post or curation reward payout. Enough with the nonsense. Learn how this platform functions before whining about it.
Lol @noisy the money is not going from anybody's pockets! Steemit pays for posting, people upvote what they want and like, so tell me what's wrong about it?
Lol²
First of all, there is no such thing in the world, like "Free Money". if someone receives money, that mean, that there is someone else who need to cover the cost.
Right now posts are rewarded thanks to dilution of whole Steem network, whan mean, that every shareholder of Steem need to cover the cost proportionally to own stake.
Probably you wanted to say Steem
There is nothing wrong with that. I wrote a detail post about that:
How I figured out, why SteemSports is better than I thought, but still, why it will continue to harm Steemit if few things won't be changed
But at the same time, we need to remember, that users also have the rights to downvote whatever they want, because for example according to them is harmful to steem network.
Steemit platform pays people for posting and they chose to let the people decide what post deserve to be paid.
I know that not all the people like the same things, but if a 'person A' likes a post and another 'person B' don't like that post, I think they shouldn't fight about that and they should focus on the things they like.
If you believe that all the people are equal, then their pleasures are equal to. Only because people have different opinions, that doesn't mean that the opinion of the 'person A' is better than the opinion of the 'person B' or vice-versa!
It would be great if we could have that system, but IMO that would be an utopia. Why this is not possible is really well explained in the best article which I read last month:
Why Down Votes and Flags are an Unavoidable consequence of Game Theory by @bitcoindoom
To be precise: not Steemit, but Steem network
I do not have problem with that, right now the problem is with lack of clear vision of steemit. I wrote about that in my article which I linked earlier
The dilution affects every user. It doesn't matter where the votes go. If you vote on @steemsports or vote on cat memes, the dilution occurs. It costs you nothing additional if people vote for @steemsports instead of cat memes.
So again, what exactly is the problem here?
Good point,that's a good way to attract new users to platform.I like this platform,and after some time,i think many new people that come,will like it to.The word spreads...
btw, are this guy still on the platform?
These numbers help put things into perspective. I'm not a huge fan of sports betting but I was really happy to see that the top earning posts in Oct - Dec (@steemsports) were redistributing/sharing rewards with minnows. I applaud @steemsports for helping speed up the distribution process.
Great info, if there was a way to do it, this should be pinned on top of the feeds, or something.
When I joined Steemit, this place had a positive, fun community - I still like it, for the most part - but lately the in-fighting has made for a very toxic environment, and it's making it less fun to engage with Steemit.
I don't think we want that.
I also don't understand the, sorry, whining.
The whole idea behind Steemit was that we can get rewarded for content. Steemsports was an idea that would offer content and something to engage with. Turns out, people liked it, and it gets rewarded. I think that's how it should work. Steemsports functions well within the "rules of the system".
And it's not even true that Steemsports stops people from making money.
I'm a small time user, and I've made it to the top of and near the top of the trending page a few times. When I made it to the top, I didn't even promote that post at all, I was on vacation and had no time to even check on it. And I have no big whales autovoting my content, either.
I think people should just focus on their own content, instead of complaining about others so much.
Also, if you're being a constant debbie downer and attacking other people's work constantly, don't complain when you become unpopular and no one wants to click on your stuff, let alone upvote it.
And let's not pretend that every day there isn't non-Steemsports stuff on the trending page, getting big rewards.
I think that even the people making, say, ten bucks, twenty bucks per post (which is what I'm doing, on average) forget that we're making this money by writing blog posts. It's pretty cool to me, still. And I joined in August.
Anyway, good luck to Steemsports!
People are jealous and when they see someone on trending page every day, they don't realize that behind of all that, it's a hard work done by somebody, and that's the reward that person deserve it. I don't know what was wrong about steemsports!
I think people are rather suspicious when they find someone on trending everyday, questioning his/her posts really deserve it. Steemsports is a really good initiative but it shouldn't be an efficient way to milk the reward with helps of whales in favor of one or few people (it is still not clear who takes horded SP in steemsports)
It doesn't matter who takes hoarded SP in steemsports because they must pay the people who are working for making those posts.
Thank you highest number i saw was 8% but glad to see the numbers of how much power was distributed that was not included when I saw the reports. Thank you for the info.
Yeah people have just been jealous at the success of the steemsports. Also alot of people don't realize that most the people who will be profiting the most off the SP in the future, are going unpaid at the current moment. So it's a sacrifice now, with all the rewards later.
I think it is great to see a businesses like this one unrelated directly to the crypto world manifest from steemit. I am now Expanding my business into the online world. So seeing steempsport being successful just gives me encouragement.
I think people should be targeting the steemit system itself rather than the @steemsport. It is the system forcing at least 50% SP and it is the system that creates the trending page.
Steemit is growing, these things will happen. @steemsport is just the first one to successfully expand a great idea and dominate trending like this. I promise you it will not be the last. Steemit needs to adapt quicker.
Thanks for these stats I was actually wondering this myself:)
I've thought the attack on steemsports has been a bit unfair. thanks for doing this.
a bit? It was completely unfair. note, that actually steemsport helped people to increase their SP. And at the end it received downvoting for that.
Well done on getting those facts, I hope to see more bets from @steemsports in the future.
I want to make sure im understanding your numbers right.... Are you saying 5.73% of the part of the reward pool for blogging, or 5.73% of the total reward pool for those months? because the two are different, though i don;t know what percent the blogging rewards are anymore since HF16.
Also, as a part of a budget, which is what the reward pool really is, 5% is a big number. Even if how much you redistributed is germane (which i don't necessarily think it is, though i accept that there are some who would disagree) thats still 3% of the entire pool for one guy running one business.
3% and growing of course., because then theres the steemy games, and whatever you think of next to increase your marketshare.
Also, ftr, i don't think ive seen any post saying that SS gets 50% of the reward pool.... i think youre refuting a straw man.