RE: About the Whole Self-Upvoting Debate-- Let's Examine the BIGGER Perspective!
It is really sad to see high quality content make pennies while poor quality posts make hundreds because of unequal voting power and folks who upvote themselves... It is also frustrating to read through spammy comments that are posted and upvote solely for the purpose of gaining followers rather than actually having a true response to various posts. The bots that post the same thing on multiple posts in a row I find disrespectful as well. I put effort and time into each one of my posts, and (this may seem silly but) I get excited to have a conversation about things I'm passionate about but when I scroll through several " follow me, I'll follow you, nice post" it's disheartening and a waste of my time to read. I want followers who genuinely appreciate my work and want to discuss the topics, not a million bots or spammy comments
Not silly. I'm passionate about it too. So the spammy bull shit posts are really really annoying to see making so much
I thought I was coming on this platform to make some pocket change and then quickly realized that I prized the commentary above the Steem. I want to make Steem, but only because of what I'm saying interests people, rather than the idea that I may have gamed the system the right way and always get votes.
I absolutely chose Steemit (over another couple of possibilities) because it seemed easier to use this rewards system than wrestling forever with installing Google AdSense on another blog... and dealing with all that hassle for a few cents a week. But whereas I like the rewards here, I feel like I want them for writing not because I happen to know how to code a "clever hack" to exploit the system.
We're in agreement.
I agree with you.. And i am a poor one who upvote my self
Thanks @lovewild... you bring up something that's part of my favorite part of Steemit-- "Community Engagement." Which happens to be important to me... and that's also why I use my upvote power to reward others, not myself. Among other things, I can actively curate responses on my own-- and other people's-- content, "sorting" the most meaningful to the top with higher voting power. Few things annoy me more than some boogerhead coming in and writing "nice post" and then upvoting their own inane comment to the top of the comment stream. It makes a mockery of those who sincerely try to create content of interest and value.