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RE: Steemit: @ned takes back 3 million Steem Power from 6 users...
Very interesting thought indeed. The others are considered as leaders within their "communities" and maybe the time has passed for these communities to go it alone! Maybe the Asian community has grown to such an extent that they no longer need the additional SP now.
Hello marcusxman!
Two comments, please.
When you look at the size of Asia isn't the notion of "Asian community" bringing too much diversity under the same umbrella? Shouldn't we be focused on identifying different communities of interest within Asia, as we should in N. America and Europe?
I may be totally off base the following remark; but here goes. What the news that this post brings to me is a helpful hypothesis to account for some very odd payouts and I have seen.
For example, a certain YouTube giant arrived here and his first post (concentrated mostly on introducing himself, and offering little 'green' content outside of that info.) he got 'paid' SBD$15,000 ! He was so excited about this and he broadcasted it to the world, while neither he nor the persons responsible for payment seemed to have realized what the implications would be for struggling authors producing valuable 'green' content after much effort.
My hypothesis is that this impact on the struggling authors is totally unimportant; because while the mantra is "come to Steemit and get paid for your content" the important unstated message is "come to Steemit and and bring along your horde of Followers and you will be handsomely paid"!
I do not see any problems with this situation, sitting in the seat of the CEO of Steem Inc. for a moment; but it is clear that we struggling authors need to wake up and 'smell the tea leaves'.
This is no critique, please; because I am coming from a writing community people ar accustomed to getting 'peanuts' for doing great work. The only sad piece here is that in the design of the Steamit software and the management of the social network that is the Steemit community (by the whales) they seem not have a clue on how to appeal to us - or perhaps that's totally unimportant for them.
Hello marcusxman!
Two comments, please.
When you look at the size of Asia isn't the notion of "Asian community" bringing too much diversity under the same umbrella? Shouldn't we be focused on identifying different communities of interest within Asia, as we should in N. America and Europe?
I may be totally off base the following remark; but here goes. What the news that this post brings to me is a helpful hypothesis to account for some very odd payouts and I have seen.
For example, a certain YouTube giant arrived here and his first post (concentrated mostly on introducing himself, and offering little 'green' content outside of that info.) he got 'paid' SBD$15,000 ! He was so excited about this and he broadcasted it to the world, while neither he nor the persons responsible for payment seemed to have realized what the implications would be for struggling authors producing valuable 'green' content after much effort.
My hypothesis is that this impact on the struggling authors is totally unimportant; because while the mantra is "come to Steemit and get paid for your content" the important unstated message is "come to Steemit and and bring along your horde of Followers and you will be handsomely paid"!
I do not see any problems with this situation, sitting in the seat of the CEO of Steem Inc. for a moment; but it is clear that we struggling authors need to wake up and 'smell the tea leaves'.
This is no critique, please; because I am coming from a writing community people ar accustomed to getting 'peanuts' for doing great work. The only sad piece here is that in the design of the Steamit software and the management of the social network that is the Steemit community (by the whales) they seem not have a clue on how to appeal to us - or perhaps that's totally unimportant for them.
Hi @lestatisticien I totally agree with you on this. YouTubers are here just to make money and not here to write or curate. They post on YouTube and link it here to make more money. As to the odd payments seem like nothing we can do at the moment. The system is still not yet democratic enough, Why not put changes to the vote where everyone is equal not according to SP etc...
We joined Steemit based on current terms and conditions, so unfortunately we either stick with it or go do something else.
Yes you could well be right here.
Thanks very much for the comments :)
Asher