RE: 😠 Why is Steemit So Unfair...?
I for one regard steemit as social media(which they have stated emphatically).
The problem is that whilst others are committed to building relationships and making the most out of it, others are going round complaining. Most of these users dont even know what the newest initiatives are on steemit.
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Am not a 100% in support of how the curators do their curation but i must say its not an easy job and they certainly cannot curate every single user. This is why booming + curator teams have been created to help cover all these other users.
Curation doesn’t come very easy as i was once in charge of a community curation account and then when one has this opportunity you begin to see the problem with posts and instead of curating them to later have problems, you will prefer leaving them as they are.
In this case you will realise that you begin to centralize your votes around users who have spent a substantial amount of time building their brand on the ecosystem.
This is the main source of a lot of the complaints and it can be difficult to avoid.
What would you do differently?
When I joined steemit the curators used to vote contest winners . This motivated a lot of people to participate in contests with quality entries. This days we notice that contest winners only recieve rewards from the community account.
If contest winners were assured of votes from the curator01 or curator02, the community accounts will only have to organise the contest and they wont have to be worried about where they will get rewards to send out to winners.
One other problem i have is with the daily top posts of communities. You realise that it came to a time that only the curation accounts were voted and the selected posts were not voted on.
If this is brought back, more users will be covered.
I remember when contests became popular and I suspect that I know why support for them ended... So many contests were created, dozens per day and they would all tag sc01 asking for (or demanding) support. Then when the support didn't come, prizes wouldn't be shared or worst still, the winners would be their alternative accounts or family members. Like so many initiatives that have the power for good, there are too many people capable of ruining it for everybody else.
In many ways, sc01 still support contests and I can only speak from my experience - My Fantasy Sports posts get an occasional sc01 vote which plays a significant role in how much I can distribute in prizes. Admittedly, to the user, it's not the "lottery win" of an sc01 upvote but over the course of the season, my contests will have given away over 1,000 STEEM. I know that sc01 supports the work that disconnect does too so although sc01 won't be openly supporting contests, I'm fairly sure that they still are indirectly. I also expect that some contest entries get supported if they're good posts too but I rarely look at contest entries to know.
This could be for the same reason as the contests but I don't know this. I know that posts that WOX have recommended before have been looked at with some voted and some not. It could also be linked to the author's club status but I really don't know.
It's certainly possible - although given what happened last time, I expect the Steemit team to look for different ways that will be less prone to the inevitable scammers.
This comes down to the reputation of the community. As we have all seen that the wox community have strived and built a brand for themselves, it is easier to vote on the selctions that they make.
This time round I don't know what happened the last time. Do you care to tell me😂😂
Oh, nothing more than what I'd already said - some communities thought that if they started any old competition, it would result in an sc01 upvote. Sorry to disappoint!