RE: If I were to start on Steem from scratch
DON'T BE A DICK
Definitely can't follow that one.
Please, never again write a bullet list...
I honestly have no clue how most of these people got success on here. I wasn't here when there were insane rewards for posts and comments and no bidbots yet. Now...it is what it is I guess.
I almost regret not abusing the system with bidbots, because that was the system and is the system still to a large degree, but I didn't want to support people that were running services that were rewarding such shitty level posts. Not even my shit level posts. Often like REALLY shit level. Like my worst ones, times 10 or 100.
One can lament the system that we're in currently, and I will, but many people realized that the best way to grow was to buy votes, and they did, and they grew. In some ways that was really smart of them. But I didn't want to support that, and I didn't. I held off at least until a non-profit bidbot launched more into the public view. Now I think all bidbots are going to have to move toward lower and lower profit to compete.
Maybe I should have just gone with it...but I'm stubborn, and I didn't want to support something is such obvious conflict with the responsibilities of being good stewards of Steem. It's proof of brain, not proof of bribe.
there is being a dick and then there is BEING A DICK. You are just a dick.
Maybe add this one:
I know right? I don't like lists at all. Out of the 2000+ post I reckon this is maybe the third one that has any type of list more than a couple points.
I wasn't here for insane rewards either. The first 6 months were a lot of 0 - 5 dollar posts. there were a few higher around the 10-15 that were during 7c steem though.
THe worst thing about most of the bidbots is who is behind them in my opinion. Perhaps with different people I might have used them. The community ones are/will be different again.
And once the RC markets, SMT curation investment, oracles and the like come, it changes again.
Lol, yeah :D
It changes...but everyone's talking about SMT's like they're going to change the world and be so great... I think they will change things here, but I'm not sure I buy into the idea that they will change everything so immensely. They will likely take months to be adopted by most tools after they are finally implemented.
Most are going to fail, especially the early ones. But the market of them and the RC pools bites into the draw of bidbots potentially so changes it again. Some SMTs might use an oracle to not distribute to bought votes. Who knows.