Question UPDATED! ( Already answered Thank you!)
First of all, let me start by saying that this is not going to be a rant post about the voting system. I am a noob when it comes to computers and reading programming! But I am not blind and I can see that there is something going wrong with the Voting system or at least that is how it feels to me.
Because I am a noob I am not able to point a finger nor do I want to do that. But when I look at my feed and take a closer look at posts I can really see that something is not going well.
When I see a post with 54 votes on it but no money at all it makes me wonder. How come that person is not making a cent on a post that is very much liked? I mean 54 votes means that the post is liked. It's not a post with just 3 votes.
A poem for truth
This poem was written and inspired by Genesis and "the good things coming." In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.$0.00
55 07 hours ago by christoryan53 in poem
While I looked for this post he got a few more and still no money?
Not even one cent?
Free codes to boost your Steem
I currently have 18 invitation only codes for Streemain that I will be giving away if anybody is interested.$0.01
47 06 hours ago by christoryan53 in streemian
47 votes and only 1 cent!
Incredible Elephant Coloring Book Art
I worked most of the night learning this technique and lost a lot of sleep :) I like the results I got.$0.01
35 41 day ago by vegascomic59 in art
Taking a closer look on one of my own posts from a few days back:
35 votes and 1 cent....
Doodle portrait #2 -Original art by @poeticsnake.
This is the second portrait in my new series! I am aiming for at least 5 of them! Now I will show you the making…$0.70
232 197 days ago by poeticsnake62 in art
At least I made a few cents on this one so I am not complaining!
Take a look at the votes: 232 Votes! ( I think that is a whole lot, more than you will find on many trending posts)
I made $0,70 cents! (( Partyyyyy))
Again, I am blessed with what I get and I am not saying I deserve more money or that the person who I showed before my own post deserves more money but somehow it does feel off and not good.
Is there something happening that we have no clue about?
Is this because the value of Steem dropped? Is the Steempower no longer as strong as it was before?
As a noob we have to guess and it makes me think weird stuff.
Is the pool of votes drained? Is that done in a wrong way or is it just a simple thing? Do we need to change things? Are the groups that only vote for each other? Like I said people and ME, I do, start to wonder and we might thing WRONG! Why do the Bigger names keep getting loads of payouts? ( Note I am not jealous, I am just trying to figure this all out like many others among us. ) I keep seeing the same names on the trending list!
Also powering UP , I keep doing this and my vote still is worth nothing! So please tell me what is the use for me to keep powering up and for others as well if its going to take 2 years for our vote to really count? What is stopping me from powering down right now?
So if someone knows the REAL answer to this problem I would like to know it!
While we are all guessing and guessing some more things might get weird. We might loose great content writers who seriously feel left behind.
Good content for one is not always good for the other but as far as I know and see most content here is really good, much better than we see elsewhere.
I already stopped posting poems and writings because no matter how hard I try to get votes there it wont work for me. It made me feel that I am not a good writer, while I have books out! :D But right after I threw in my towel I picked it up again because I do believe in this project called Steemit!
I want the best for everyone on this platform, I want people to feel proud after they posted something they made with the best intentions. Most people here work very hard before they post!
There are a few individuals around here who have created voting bot "armies". Essentially, these are huge swarms of bots that have a miniscule amount of both rep and voting power. The voting numbers look great, and when they hit you they bump you to the top of the "Hot" pages, but they don't really do much in terms of earnings due to their lack of influence.
If you spend much time on http://steemstats.com, you'll see them come pouring in when they hit your post. And if you look at the users, the names are usually something simple or cartoony, and they usually always have between 10 and 15 Steem Power.
In fact, it's funny you brought this topic up. I thought I took a screen shot of it, but the other day I had 3 different posts going, and at one point they all hit 45 votes at the same time. Each one had a drastically different earnings figure on those 45 votes, but as we all know that's because of who voted on them, not how many votes they garnered.
Thank you for your reply! I can see that bots might be a problem in this case. I understand that they are not that strong in votes! But on the other hand I have seen a lot of posts earning nothing and when you look at them, they do have votes and no bots. ( I mean the bots you can see, all with the same name and or numbers) So that is still a bit weird.
I'm still on the fence about whether or not it's actually a problem, or if it simply means you'll get tons of votes when they swarm you. I can see curation being an issue because suddenly you're having to share those rewards with a couple hundred bots, severely diluting them.
Yes, that is one of things that crossed my mind when you pointed out the bots. It's just really hard to understand for me, I am really new to all of this and before this all I only knew bots from auto bots :D Lmao
I like getting the votes, now that I'm actually getting some. i never thought about the dilution issue though.
This has been brought up many times before - it is because people who do have steempower - even those with enough to deliver a cent - don't vote.
I'm sorry to tell you that you are part of the problem. I had a look at your account at steemstats.com and you are on 99.14% voting power and only 8 votes in the last 24 hours.
In order to make this site work, everyone needs to do about 20 votes a day. The problem is that only the noobs on 10SP are voting, and the whales are voting, but as there are only 33 of them, they can't get to everyone. So all the examples you have are posts that have been voted on by people with less than 100SP, and that's why they don't show much value.
Be the change you want to see. Don't just sit there expecting others to vote for you, vote for lots of people yourself.
I need improvement in this area as well. I have virtually 100% voting power myself. I'm just so damn busy that I have so little time to spend browsing such a vast (and rapidly growing) catalog of content.
I can see that is an problem as well. I normally do vote more than I did the last few days seeing I also have a life besides Steemit. But yes, thank you for pointing this out and I will start to vote at least 20 times a day. If more people do it we might see a change! Thank you for taking the time to reply!
But I would like to add that I dont expect others to just vote for me. I pointed that out in my post as well. I am very blessed and happy with every vote and penny I make here.
Uneven distribution of voting power is single biggest problem here. I am hoping Golos or synereo encourages them to change the scaling factor to something less than 2.
I work from home, so I have a lot of time in front of the computer all day. I've been trying to get a handle on my steemstats and can't figure it out either most times. The revenue part doesn't seem to move much when someone I know or follow/followed votes for something I posted either.
I work from home as well, and it was a little too easy to let Steemit be such a distraction during work hours. My work suffered for a bit so I had to back off.