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RE: Stop this Madness Fellow Steemians.... Just Posting about Price of Steem, Bitcoin, Crypto, and Photography but nothing much Else !
I guess steem will always have a crypto focus, due to the blockchain anture of the platform. But there are already extremely active communities here who focus on other things. Here are just a of the favourite tags I've run into!
- #steemstem (my favourite)
- #photography
- #art
- #travel
- #aceh
- #gaming
I think it is not so much about posting a lot of crypto, steem price, bitcoin and altcoins that can make you sour towards Steemit. It is the fact that these are the blogs that make ridiculously large sums of rewards without actually telling us anything useful. Do you ever read about these so-called "crypto experts" tell you how much the price of bitcoin will be tomorrow? or next week? or next month? Never. They tell you about waves of different colors and trendlines and everything except what matters most. It's because they don't know themselves. And they get paid big for this.
Now photography is the only next option for someone to make big bucks because let's face it, what do most people know about crypto? So if you can't make it appear you are an expert about something you can't even predict, well you can shoot most anything with your phone camera and post it as if you were an expert.
But this is where I agree with @tfcoates. There are a lot of quality blogs in Steemit. They just don't get paid well except when you have an awfully lot of followers who will upvote anything you post (and I suspect even without reading it). Or don't get the exposure necessary to earn enough because of having very few followers. That is why there are a lot of dolphin and whale members who are working on these people that their posts be read and recognized, organizing contests of all sorts (not only photography), offering resteeming for new members, and a lot more. Join communities. Use tags mentioned above.
In my humble opinion, the madness is not in the posting of cybercurrency blogs. It's giving these posts money for saying nothing. Therein lies the madness.
Thank you @gems.and.cookies. You really bring up some valid and sound points !! I admit it is crazy sometimes when I see some Posts that offer zero value getting obscene sums of payouts.
I think this comes down to two things though! These are the posts that have been around the longest and as such have accumulated a strong reputation, by voting on these posts people are chasing curation rewards... content doesn't matter to them! As steemit matures we'll see a shift away from this behaviour. I think people will get bored of chasing curation points and leave or start writing!
The support I have recieved within the steemstem community by some of the largest posters in the science field has been just amazing!
Thanks for the discourse :)
Great points!!