Why you can't attract upvotes?
Dear Steemians,
I've been thinking about why there are a lot of good posts around steemit, that you really feel sorry about why didn't they earn more?
Short answer, it's not authors mistakes.
What i am seeing now, the majority of the whales are leasing their steem power to paid upvoting services, or selling upvote directly,
let's face it, upvoting is money giving, and it's money that they can give it to themselves, so why should they hand it over to you?
but how come some posts are getting upvoted?
the way i see it, it's mutual back scratching between whales, and also the ignorant promise of curation rewards, which doesn't worth it.
Why Curation Rewards doesn't worth it?
Simply, because you are getting 25% worth of you upvote in best cases, if you upvoted in the right time, so you can actually get less if you upvoted too early or too late.
Was always this way?
No, it wasn't, as reviewing old posts, people were actually upvoting good contents, no matter how much SP the author have, so they were not looking just for money, it has been a good place for good author.
one of the authors that i really like his contents is @boxmining, he is doing a real hard work and consistent on his posts, and all of his videos are originally his own work, full of information and analyzes about cryptocurrency, exchanges, political impacts on crypto & even advises about new ICOs.
how much dose @boxmining posts makes?
between $4 to $10, while at least in my opinion it worth more or less a $100, I see that his posts comparing to other stupid posts really worth a lot more.
There are many other authors who can easily fit in the same category, but i mentioned this guy because i follow him and check almost everything he posts and i really believe that he is underestimated,
Now what should be done?
i think that a change should be done to Curation rewards, and here is my proposal,
1- The rewards should be 50/50, between author and curators
2- The reward share should be descending under new rule, that can at least grant first upvoters a little better then their Voting worth, and descend with each new vote, for example the first voter receives 100% of his vote worth and 10% of the votes to follow, 2nd voter should receive 90% , 3rd voter 70%, 4th %50, and so on.
3- Another option is lottery curation rewards distribution, that will also attract more voters to upvote good posts, so if a person want to participate in a lottery, why not participate in a lottery by upvoting contents they actually likes
Bottom Line: something needs to be done, steemit is not a place that appreciate good contents anymore, it appreciate ROIs only.
nobody is really winning here
can not agree. first of all, it is about post quality in massive scenario. most of the posts on steemit are junk. so let me know, but honestly, if you have 100 000 SP which is $10 per upvte and if you upvote your post, you get all rewards. you can do it 10 times a day, so it is 100 bucks a day. why should I give to others? Are you on steemit to blog? or are you here to make some profits? If you want quality blogs, you can find many other web places where people blog for free.
I gave this comment, and will upvote it with my SP. And I think that this is fare and right. I gave mu subjective opinion with explanation.
And some more:
When you say, rewards should be based on post timing with descending structure. who will upvote post with already many upvotes? did you think about that?
when you say 50/50, whales get more benefit, why is it better?
This is my opinion and I never intended to disgrace your post. Just my thoughts and nothing else. :)
Great post and loads of constructive comments here too. The system is really skewed so that the steem rich get richer right now. Sad to see for a social network that set out to do it all differently but goes to show just how hard it is to build REAL equity into any economic system
everything is in the hands of witnesses, they have the power to change it, but we need to convince one of them to adopt a changing project.
so true! something really needs to be done!
i resteem your post
thanks @eyesonsky, i appreciate it
There are lots of ways to address the problem.
3)limit the amount you can upvote from one account to another account.
4)ban self upvoting
and probably the best solution
Awesome points. I'm not sure if we could end bot use but we could at least deincentivize bot curation. The main problem is having such a large income gap between minnows and whales because the way it is now, even if something could work, it'll only happen if the biggest whales are on board, even if 70-90% of he community disagree with it.
I've heard arguments for keeping self upvoting, none of them are extremely convincing to me.
I think there should be a huge curve on the dollar value ofvoting power, the same as reputation, so you can buy in and get a higher upvote but only to a certain point. It will discourage some people from investing into a ton of steem power but it'll make the whole platform much more sustainable in the long run.
I think bots are one of the few ways new ppl can make money till they take off and keep it worth them staying so not so sure about that one but this is a great post
Banning bots is not an option i suppose, i wish it was.
recurve the upvote rewards seems to be good one, but doesn't solve the problem of selective upvoting
Ban self upvoting seems to be bad to me, because you will loose a lot of investment in steemit, or it won't have an effect, since they can create an alternative account and use it to vote themselves.
Starting a new site with SMT is a good solution, but is SMT already live and running?
I think maybe they should add a non monetary vote. It add more visibility on the feed. Anybody can upvote it and in this case the free upvote is indifferent of the reputation. I mean my upvote is just as good as the best whale outhere. Oh and improve dtube.
It was 50/50 originally.
I agree entirely, it should be changed back
why did they change it, i don't understand
See above.
reviewd the post, but unfortunatly too old to upvote it, consider the upvote of your comment as an upvote of the post.
All good. Thanks mate. I'd love to see it change back.
I'm not sure, I would consider this a fair system. Shouldn't the author be entitled to a larger portion of the reward than the curators, just in principle?
Is this the best and most reliable way of countering the undesirable trend we are seeing right now.
I'm honestly no sure of the correct answer on those questions.
I addressed that in the piece.
I think most authors would rather see 50% of $100 than 75% of $50.
Yep, I read it carefully as soon as you shared the link here, I'm just not convinced that the change of policy could and would double the amounts authors make.
Why was it changed?
Don't know. Perhaps they assumed the author deserved more of the cut than the upvoters. It was just before I arrived.
I've previously suggested moving back to 50/50 as a solution to the self upvoting epidemic.
I think the fact that we are thinking about moving back to something that was previously abandoned is a big red flag and we should consider all the possible ways our suggestions could backfire. Hardfork 19 had some goals and was supposed to remedy some problems and now we are talking about fixing some of the unintended consequences of that.
We're still in beta; I'm confident that the guys smart enough to invent this place are also smart enough to keep it on track:)
Sure. But it's not only about being smart, it's about learning from your mistakes. If we are going to talk about reverting to something that was abandonded in the past, it's of paramount importance to learn why it was abandoned as the problems it was thought to be causing back then might very well reappear with it being introduced back into the system.
This is indeed an issue I'm developing a passion about and this type of thing is something we have seen in the past and I did write about it about two weeks ago - The Cobra Effect. In my opinion, we should not consider any changes before we have spent considerable time and effort on thinking about what could go wrong because of the change we are advocating.
Couldn't agree more.
I think that it would be a mistake to go back to 50/50 since now there is an incentive to create content. The problem is that people are just creating spammy type articles and have other people that are automatically upvoting their posts regardless of what is being said or the effort put into the post. The solution to this really has to be changing the culture on here. As long as there is money involved people will continue to upvote posts that they think will get them paid regardless of content. I know I am following a user who creates 3 posts a day that all seem to get upvoted to a $40 value which are just quick essentially news snipits which don't require a lot of thought.
One solution for the self-voting and trying to give minnows an advantage would be to set a limit to when a user can upvote their own post based on the amount of SP they have: minnows right at posting, dolphins 3 days after posting, sharks 5 days after posting, whales right before voting time runs out. (Or whatever aquatic animal that you identify with.)
This should help to incentivise whales to still create quality content while giving a small advantage to minnows while they are trying to grow their SP and clout.
@rocking-dave and @fechaugger you guys may find these ideas interesting.
That wouldn't help. Between sock puppet accounts, delegation, voting agreements... I went into detail in the article. There's really no other way.
Why I feel the same? A minnow with no wallet power seems to be without power. Although a good content has been posted the result is not that encouraging. Seems we are like a neglected lot. I saw many minnowees posted very good contents that went unnoticed. But there are many senior steemians around who pay attention and who have been very supportive to us the newbies. They gave us words of encouragements and guidance to move up the rank which I appreciate a lot. Thanks @malekalmsaddi. Have resteemed, upvoted and followed you. I believe this post can benefit us the minnowees ☺. See you around!
You feel the same, because it's the fact, and everyone knows it.
thanks so much for upvoting and resteem.
Good post @malekalmsaddi,I have resteemed your post
Thank you
I agree it is sad that there are some who have great content but don't get any traction or resteem nor any votes.
The whales have indeed used their power to get more steem by having it as a paid service which is fundamentally not wrong since there is a dollar amount associated to it.
Then you see selfie posts, or nonsense posts that are getting 20 30 dollars because they are close to whales.
I am glad that I am not the only one that felt this.
Me I merely writing as a cathartic exercise for my depression.
If I get money well and good.
I am glad that
Great insights! Thanks for the share! Upped and resteemed!
thank you
Yes thats so true!!!
yes it is!