requires decent interaction
Yes. The whales who used to flag me for not providing content they thought would help bring new users in (morality, truth, philosophy, etc.) or because I had not enough views, were upvoting posts with no real engagement for sports bet picking crap,comments that someone only had to pick a team... great engagement there... lol
I even rewarded ppl with sbd from post rewards for a period to try to reward interaction on my posts, as my 100% upvote was worth 7 or 15 cents or so back then.
I also go through modes or moods or time periods of posting/commenting. I do other things when people are commenting on a post, and don't check my posts. I comment in batches after people have already commented. Probably not the best for keeping them interested, but I'm doing other things... so yeah :/
I'm trying to understand why you got so much heat back in the day... I went back and read some of your old posts, can't find a thing that would make me thing...
"dude gotta go..."
I was talking about things they didn't enjoy (morality, psychology), they wanted sports, comedy or who knows what else BS. They wanted to control the platform, and not let people get rewarded too much if they didn't like them or the content topics. I was the #1 rewarded poster for 1 month, and they didn't like my success. I even did a data post on myself to be open and honest about my success, which probably hurt as people had warned me not to do it... truth can backfire when people get jealous I guess... :/
https://steemit.com/steemit/@krnel/steemit-data-on-krnel
The flagging increased after that, and I lost support after calling the whales out as bullies, as people don't want to vote for a post where they wont get curation rewards from since it gets flagged down hehe. Plus they don't want to be seen supporting someone who goes against powerful whales because then that's guilt by association, they don't want to risk losing upvotes or being flagged too...
Stem has a concentration of power issue, and the rich plutocrats run it as they want with no consequences to their behavior because they have all the SP = money = power to rule and do what they want.
I have no idea how people think paying for what is already available freely from a thousand other places is going to make this place work. I understand why the content producers will come as they can get paid for doing what they do but the investors? It makes no sense to me. The value is almost completely in the community no matter how fast the blockchain is as in time, there will always be a faster one. The real business is tying people to the blockchain as it is the engaged community who will always keep the transactions flowing.