Q/A, Answering Twitter Question, Random Ethical Toughs

It’s my second month here since I started actively participating. 2 Months ago, I posted an introduction post that you can checkout here: https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@crt/introduction-post-hello-world

The intention was to present myself with a bit of humor and down to earth approach. This time, I would like to make a serious one, in form of Q/A, Inspired by some questions I got on Twitter shortly after i published a guide to scale nodes RAM consumption into RAID, and started promoting Steemit there. These are some of questions I got.

https://twitter.com/cs_networks/status/964993881296310273

Let’s start with the most recent one that inspired me to make this one.

I do invest time. In order to evaluate new technology and form an opinion if it’s a breakthrough or not, i prefer to have insight from the angle of bottom rather than top - by paying for a position, my opinion is likely to to deviate from what could be observed by starting just like everybody else. If one can’t succeed here by starting from the rock bottom, then something is seriously wrong.

Q: You got some upvotes from whales. Is it a result of personal connections or some other approach?

No, I don’t know anyone in person. It could be that I exchanged couple of words with some of them on Discord / Slack / Whatever, but it’s completely out of topic of voting / following. I don’t know who they are, nor I am posting according to what they would like to hear or not. Posts are my opinions, and views, from a position of newbie user. If a whale decide to upvote me, it’s totally their choice, for whatever reason they chose to. I would take that as a form of approval of what I am doing and a compliment as from any other user, but nothing more. The far it would ever get from me, if I get personal with any of them, is a bottle of wine delivery as a sign of appreciation, and a time to talk about things that could be interesting, as well as upvote IF i found something to be interesting inspiring or helpful.

If I disagree, I am about to exchange opinion the very same respectful way no matter if you are a whale or just starting. But I am going to keep my standpoint unless you prove me wrong.

Q: What’s your motivation to host nodes / experiment and perform Witness tasks.

There are 3 motives.

• Helping scalability and sustainability of network (common interest)
• Expanding my knowledge in BIG Data. (personal interest)
• Potential earnings (addressed in question bellow). (personal interest)

Q: Do you have plans or strategy to earn on Steemit.

Actually I do, and I put time in planning on how to achieve that. One of the negative phenomenon here, just like in the physical world, is that people in general will (for whatever reasons) going to sustain from helping you grow. The more they have - the less they give. (There are exceptions here), but that do not override the rule.

It should be self-explanatory. How many witnesses you see in these upvotes? The post describes what they are most likely to use in less then a year.

My plan to earn is very simple. Most of those who can find themself described in the paragraph of negative phenomenons above are just going to go with the flow, apply dirty tricks to get more votes and earn some money.

Long term, this is what is going to happen:

Memory and hardware requirements increases exponentially.
By spending way too much time on dirty tricks to get votes and exchange them between themselves, there is no way they are going to manage stay up with the trends and requirements.
Votes will have zero value if you are missing blocks all the time.
This is eventually to evolve into enterprise grade network, that most of them are just going to be unable to follow. That would be time to earn, by being prepared to scale with the network. The profit is going to be very good one, for those who did their homework.

Moreover, it these predictions are happen to be correct, it would be fully ethical filing of pockets, since I regularly keep the community updated through posts such as this one.
(If someone prefer to spend time by ‘trading’ votes with others instead of thinking about this, it’s their miss. )

That's why (among much other economy and math things) this is not a pyramid scheme at all.

Q: You upvote everything randomly?

To some level. I usually wait for my voting power to hit 100% then i go around and upvote everything till it's spend. it costs me nothing, but for someone who is just starting even 0.04 put a smile on the face. It makes me happy too. Give me one good reason why should I not do that. Usually I upvote everything that's related to #Gridcoin. (This is likely to change, as it seems that some users noticed many members of our community does the same).

In Conclusion

• Spend as much votes you can for everything that's not spam or plagiarism.
• Don't be selfish, or you are devaluing your own investment
• Keep on track with developments, rather then 'trading' / voting out of interest.
• The SBD value is in reverse proportion to selfishness of steem members :)
• Now go out, put some votes to these guys who did not start producing blocks yet.
• If you spend a day here without putting a smile on somebody face, you did nothing.

This would the only thing we are missing here :)

(this is why you still spend most of time on Google.)