OK now I'm really confused: this post was upvoted by @Ned and is currently only worth a dollar: https://steemit.com/mydearfollowers/@luminousvisions/my-dear-followers-002
Can anyone shed some light?
OK now I'm really confused: this post was upvoted by @Ned and is currently only worth a dollar: https://steemit.com/mydearfollowers/@luminousvisions/my-dear-followers-002
Can anyone shed some light?
I actually meant this post: https://steemit.com/steemit/@luminousvisions/stop-telling-people-that-they-can-make-money-from-steemit
The other one is where he talks about it...
@wiser
ned , stan, dan etc have lately taken to voting with very minimal amounts of power except when they are voting for the minor internet celebs we've attracted like dollarvigilante , stellabelle etc.
Take a look at @casandrarose for instance.
@stan is always in her posts talking with her about religious matters, but she's yet to break a dollar on any comment where he's involved.
Not to judge. But she's a single mom who's ex-husband had to leave the country just to earn enough to pay child support. She works a fulltime job and still tries to find time to post on steemit about topics she cares about.
She makes some very compelling arguments especially in regards to religion. Yet she goes largely unnoticed.
But stan is always there, debating religion with her. But she's a dedicated missionary and feels the need to apologize or whatever it's called about god. I doubt she even knows @stan is a whale with the power to bless her life with what would amount to a weeks salary for her, with just a single upvote. I doubt that even if she knew that it would change her viewpoint.
A single full power upvote from him could cover her internet bill for a month or help to cover groceries. If he was enjoying the conversation and valued the debate, to my mind it's worth the upvote otherwise spent on more frivolous stuff like the latest complaint about how unfair the system here is etc.
In @casandrarose's case if she could develop the kind of dedicated following that lesser authors like myself have, she could cut her hours down at work and make more time for her kids and steemit.
Instead she puts a week into a single post and feels grateful for the on average $0.25 she gets despite pouring her heart into everything she does.
Sorry, guess I'm ranting, she is someone I know IRL.
I dunno if she would want me talking about her business like that.
Anyways, she's someone to consider adding to your follow list.
But yeah even whale upvotes aren't what they used to be. Just celeb status in the community. It's beginning to change though and once the drama queens are gone and they fix the long term content issue I'm sure things will get better here.
I will definitely check out @casandrarose. I always enjoy discussing religion :)
So, a whale can decide to vote based on only some of their steem power? How do they do that? Is there a setting on their account that allows them to set how much of their power they want to put into upvotes? And if so, what exactly would be the utility of doing that? To use your example, why might @stan only want to give @casandrarose a partially powered upvote? What's the upside to @stan for doing that? What's the upside to Steemit in general? I'm not a whale, but could I potentially choose to vote on only some of my Steem Power too?
Whales have a slider in their UI that lets them scale their power up and down. You don't have it and neither do I. But I really wish we all did. There is no technical requirement for that being a whale only feature and if you access steemit through alternative clients you too can scale your voting power.
I've been thinking about launching a site that is basically steemit with a different UI.
Instead up upvoting you would just rate 1 to 5 stars.
As for the benefit of vote scaling. I think it just leaves them free to add their full power to stuff they really believe in. While still tossing the minnows some minor acknowledgement of their presence. Problem is what they really believe in vs what the vast, vast majority of the platform really believe in is completely different.
You also can't lump all whales together like that because everyone has their own motivations for what they do. So I'm probably not being really fair here.
I can't complain for my part. I've seen a lot of full power upvotes. My blog has seen trending 2 or 3 times and I've said stuff that evidently rang like a bell with them in the past, just commenting in other people's blogs. You'll notice I'm not afraid to speak my mind. I speak truth to power and I also speak it to those who feel powerless. I say the same message regardless. You are the power in your world and change is up to you.
I have a feeling I may be viewed as a bit of a rabble rouser, but that's not my intent.
I just speak my mind bluntly and I know my own mind really well.
It's actually a relief to learn that they are doing it on purpose. When I saw @ned's vote only lift up @luminousvisions' post by one Dollar, I started to worry that maybe some day I too would become a whale... and then I'd actually want to bless someone like @cassandrarose... only to find that for unknown reasons I'd only given her a Dollar or a few cents.
We can question and discuss all day why the whales are doing this and whether or not it's truly fair and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, it doesn't change the fact that it's their choice, and not some arbitrary system thing or a glitch. That's good news. It didn't take me long to figure out that this platform massively favors the whales. The only way to really impact that is to become a whale--you know, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. But I didn't know they were withholding their whale steemit blessing by self-limiting their voting power.
Have you heard of the Robinhoodwhale? That might be a good way to get people you believe in some additional exposure and upvotes. I intend to look into it more myself.
After thinking about this, I'm realizing that I now question the wisdom of making the investment to eventually power myself up to at least dolphin status just to make my vote more powerful. The founders, of course, can do what they want with their own platform. However, to have it rigged so stunningly to favor a particular type of political view or type of Internet celebrity does not bode well for the long term value of Steem. This is where I have to carefully consider my role in it as an investor. Up until today I assumed I'd direct resources toward powering up my account. Now I'm hitting the brakes. I like the influence powering up can buy, but I don't want to end up sitting on a huge stash of a worthless coin because it comes to be viewed as the coin of a very particular and small minority group.