RE: What has changed since June? I am totally baffled that there's been no recognition in Marketing and Promoting Steemit.
Hi Stephen. I totally agree with you, I am following the upvotes regularly and it is quite sad that some post which was clearly for promoting steemit was not rewarded by the whales even you could see someone put a lot of effort to do so in the community. Steem should be about original conent and rewarding the authors but it is quite upsetting seeing low quality posts reach hundreds, while I have never ever made over $30 with one post over the 6 months of hard work with an article but I keep on. But for newbies it it devastating to see making 2 cents in the beginning so they give up after some posts.
Other steemians from other countries deserve more upvotes for promoting steemit and creating content exclusively for steem, so the whales should distribute their voting a bit more.
Hi Zoltan. You have seen it first-hand and appreciate exactly what the problem is. As one of the 14 #promo-uk Team members you have seen how frustrating it has been for us to put together the guys in the U.K and to keep rolling out the promotional initiatives when it is costing each of us our own money to do so. Even if it was £10 in petrol to drive to a location earmarked for promoting #Steemit, surely the Community must recognise that the one doing the promoting has to recover this £10. If not, then I can't see them doing it many more times after this. But it is not just £10. Some of us are £000's out of pocket and yet the numbers of new registered accounts are falling like a stone. This is where the real problem lies. After spending +£4,500 of my own money if we had seen over 300,000 new users and a new high price of $4 / #Steem I wouldn't be bothered, but we are not..!! Stephen
As we can see here, other whales do not care about these problems, not even commenting on promotional ideas, not to expect upvoting. But! I hope it will change otherwise only the whales will stay here to upvote each other...