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RE: The Steemit Post Experiment - Everyone's Here for the Money
I have to agree with you here. There's an imbalance to the curation and steem power mechanics at play. I honestly don't think that the minnows do a whole lot to move your post either because they are likely weighted far less importance than the big fish. So big fish upvote big fish which is where the rewards come from. The only thing the minnows likely affect is the trending status
So let's do something about it. What can we do to put our energy and effort into ACTUAL quality content here on the platform?
In a way this place feels like a monetized MySpace without ads. The horrendous formatting that you see on many of the $$ posts kindles old memories of nasty styling on MySpace pages.
An outsider looking in right now at steemit would probably feel like it's the Wild West of the Internet. In a sense it's working for steemit but I think it likely hurts the platform too. Quality content should do better on average than poor content, that doesn't feel true and probably turns off a whole lot of people.
It's like a monetized MySpace where most posts look like those single page marketing eBooks from the early 2000s. I swear all the people who fizzled out on selling their get rich quick eBooks and email marketing guides just migrated over to here, left their books and started creating more marketing pages for people to 'vote' on :D
Haha, I've never used MySpace but I remember the horrid mess it turned into, at some point :D
p.s. Followed you, you have a cool sense of humor :) Shower heads for the win! :)
Well, as I've said in my article, everyone's here for the money, so reposting content from other sites is the easiest way to go for most Steemians. However, reposting contents has two negative sides - first, it brings no exclusivity to our platform (hence, there's no reason for Steem to be high in value), and second, it violates copyrights (making cash on other people's work is copyright infringement), hence making Steemit look even spammier.
The solution is simple - we shouldn't tolerate non original content. Then everyone, who is here only for the money will quickly fail, seeing their posts downvoted. Steemit will be better off as an original content platform and content creators' posts will be more visible (unlike now, among all the spam).
That's a good point, I agree!