Bumping VS Resteeming!
I may be dating myself for the term bump or bumping. I know it from my time in forums like 10 years ago. It means to bump your post up to be seen by more users/people. Sometimes its just an innocent additon to the post or othertimes its a deliberate comment to keep a post alive or bring one back to life, Ive seen them be gifs, pics, comments & even just the word bump.
Ive noticed that it doesnt get used here often & Ive only used it here twice so far but Ive always been wondering which is better.
Resteeming is wonderful. It can be use correctly & incorrectly alike, paying a bot or whale to resteem &/or upvote for you seems to be the way to get Trending posts but I dont like that it forces a separation between good content/popular content & over funded content.
Now the differences are rather apparent & kinda huge...I personally think resteeming Is great in moderation but I would like to see more Bumping being used for the better content since It wont cause a false Image of funding & it promotes direct conversation not just resteem/upvote spamming. Now personally I feel that It should only be used to revive a post after the 4 day mark but It would allow someone to know if the publishing account Is checking more than just the upvotes.
Now what do yall think? What may I be wrong about? What different opinions do yall have?
Alternately I also want to plant my seed for my next steem related post. Should we have options for art/videos/photos & other media posting that doesnt have penalties for upvoting/liking past 7 days?
I personally consider the rule that posts only benefit from upvotes for seven days from posting is rubbish, particularly for evergreen content by artists, such as photography, art, poetry, music, etc.
Realistically, it simply makes no sense, except to those who started Steemit, and want to keep a larger percentage of the funding for themselves. As for helping content creators? It does NOT. My take.
But then I am biased, being an artist, writer, photographer, poet and musician. ;-)
No worries I dont feel its biased to want media forms that take a lot of time & sometimes a lot of money to make to be able to benefit as long as it needs for it to benifit you. I struggle to find time to creatr my form of art. I choose to work full time & have low producton, where there are many artist in many forms who choose to make it there work & get much greater production but less stable income wise. It is that 100% type of artist need to be able to profit in a market for it to strive. How much time do you have to post everywhere? You need a place that pays out enough to post soley there for max effert max gains but it has to be worth it. 7 days may not be enough for some artists, So I get it. Im just coming at it from a different angle.
Ah yes, "bumping." There's a good old term I haven't seen in a while.
Resteeming is basically a kind of bumping, in the sense that if you resteem someone's posy it goes through YOUR followers' feeds as if it were new. Which can work well if you have loyal followers. Steemit doesn't really have the greatest interface for ongoing "activity" on our posts, perhaps because the payout period is just 7 days (it used to be 30).
I have noticed that bumping can get fresh eyes but who really knows the range of your post at any given time. Resteeming gets a garenteed # of viewers but rarely does those groups have heavy upvoters? Upvoting your self or paying for upvotes dont benefit you as much as it would for fresh eyes.
30 days is a lot more fair for content creators. Still not the best, but a lot more fair than 7 days.
Steemit says it is all about making things better for content creators, but when bots and self-upvoting get real votes, whereas just putting yourself out there to gather a following barely gets noticed, it does get a tad disconcerting.
Especially when some of the early adopters, now whales, put out NO real content pf their own, just cut and paste stuff from the Internet, which they may or may not correctly attribute to the actual creators, and they make more on one post by self-upvoting than I make in a week - or sometimes a month - of actually producing daily real content.
I realize it is still in beta, but Steemit needs to address these issues, because they are losing creators left and right, who are tired of the bull and just want to be treated fairly.
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