Money Greed Artistic Souls
Fellow Steemit Community,
With the great power comes great responsibility
I'm relatively new here, but already need to express my opinion about animality that I noticed.
It hurts community, discourage people from joining and contributing, due to a hypocrisy and greed
How?
You start with no authority and try to build one with quality and originality. What follows up, is a bunch of encouraging comments from people with a lot of steem power and authority. That appeals, and gives you an impression you are doing something good for the community.
You discuss with people, they invite you to check their posts, you find many interesting things.
...until you can no longer vote or do anything because you spent everything on that people with reputation of 60
wait...wait..wait...
You post your work, get 10 or 20 comments of people saying how great it is, and one upvote. (the initial one from yourself)
You suddenly realise you give a ton of your creativity to community, and in return you attracted tons of money greed people who would earn more on their comments then you on your post.
Leaving you an example to conclude the real reason of @lovepool comment.
I am encouraging you to use comments to report all the accounts you noticed that follow the same pattern:
- Leaving great comments
- Never upvoting
- Calling you to check on their posts
Steem Power and Authority should not be the tool for exploiting money. It should be the tool to distinguish and boost quality. With the great power comes great responsibility. Don't abuse the power.
Let's find and report such accounts, clean up a bit, so the real art could shine in all the colours, not only in green colour of dollars.
Let's think of blockchain as a legacy for our children, not the tool to pump and dump. We will be much happier.
Don't do this.
M.
Those are typical bots and those bots only do what bots do best: they comment without looking at the content in the hope that somebody will upvote it and thus generate free money for their owners. On https://steemit.com/curration/@mattockfs/results-of-steempersist-paywalhater-script-test-run there are a few scripts posted to detect bots and even to downvote those comments but that experiment in itself led to a real shitstorm.
Hi @marcelmaatkamp. Just read your post, and found a few others about the same topic. I'm not a developer and my knowledge on API usage is very limited, but it's encouraging to see that developers like do try to find a solution.
I am sure you / and other devs will find a reliable solution, as the whole idea of steemit is too good to become a spam and fake accounts place.
I have nothing against making money, but using ethical ways. Otherwise, the system will crash into itself eventually making the SBD worth nothing. People who do this are not aware that from economy perspective they are doing against themselves, not only others by devaluing the crypto on the market. From the point of economy a whole new topic.
Thanks for experiments and scripts you are working on. It definitely add a hope for new members.
@marcelmaatkamp did a good experimentation. Having such scripts in place could make steemit only better. I also did a proposal, rather a simple one that should ensure you need to read the content in order to be able to comment. It's plain and stupid, but sometimes stupid solutions works best. Anyhow let's see the opinions.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@crt/what-steemit-really-need-is-a-captcha
Mcertic I can assure you I'm not a bot and im doing it for the same reasons you are, I'm doing this to let others enjoy my art that I have worked very hard to paint. Mcertic from one artist to another please remove me from this post as I upvoted your last post as I genuinely appreciate your work and hope you will at least see that I am a real struggling artist trying to build a family on Steemit. Kindest regards Harj
Hello @harj,
Thanks. I am aware you are not a bot, but just wanted to point that even by manually doing what's described hurts the whole economy ecosystem. Maybe a few will get rich, but the system will eventually crash into nothing. Using that logic, it like robbing a bank every day, until at one point money loses all the value and become equivalent to a value of paper. (Or bytes in this case). Maybe few lucky robbers will manage to buy something in the first days, but after a while there would be no point of stealing something that worth nothing.
I do appreciate your response, and very happy to see that you understand the problem and actually want to be the part of this family called steemit. Looking forward for more of your art and contributions!
Removed your mention from the post.
I help writing this post after realizing there is a ton of persons with huge influence in art/photography section, that built influence by abusing the scenario described above. It's not nice thing to do and it makes no progress to anyone other then a few. Don't do it.