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RE: SteemFest² Speakers Inspire My New Upvoting System!
A huge fist pound for @gonzo. The struggle is real for minnows and an awareness shift is long overdue to help everyone succeed here.
Glad you've seen the light @jerrybanfield. This should help generate a lot more goodwill across the board. Replies talk, but per Steemit itself, "money talks". Giving without expecting anything in return is better than receiving for the long run.
"Giving without expecting anything in return is better than receiving for the long run."
Why is this the rule for whales, but the opposite is practically encouraged for minnows?
I can see I'm going to have to write a whole series called "Minnow Marxism".
I appreciate the engagement and dialogue, but honestly wasn't anticipating a public breakdown of each of my statements (and, yes, I know that I made a public comment to generate this). I respect all of your efforts and will reach out via discord. Re: your question here, you're making just as much of a generalized assumption as you feel I did. I see that you personally have used auto-voting for a good cause, so I'm glad for that. To be continued on private chat.
"you're making just as much of a generalized assumption as you feel I did."
What assumption would that be? I'm just trying to accurately describe what I percive as the "democratic majority's" viewpoint on this topic (ie minnows good, deserve more - whales selfish, need to give more).
Incidentally, I don't consider myself a whale, so I'm kind of in the middle of this situation. I'm just a perennial devil's advocate that likes to ask uncomfortable questions that hopefully prompt discussion. Don't interpret any curmudgeonly questions as offense or aggression (if possible, heh).
I'll keep an eye out for your dm.
"The struggle is real for minnows and an awareness shift is long overdue to help everyone succeed here."
What shift is that?
I support over 200 authors this way, most of them minnows. I could not do that otherwise.
Nothing personal at all really if you took it potentially that way. I'm sorry, but I need a bit more background as to what you're talking about so I can answer properly. Does this mean that you're automatically voting for a preset universe of 200+ people, mostly minnows? I'm personally a believer in manual quality over quantity in general because I want to read who and what I support, where upvoting is dynamic relative to their current content, as well as engage them on their blog posts when practical.
Please feel free to send me a chat at mattcoin8 if you'd like discuss. I'm happy to learn about your view.
"Nothing personal at all really"
No apology necessary, I'm not offended/annoyed.
"Does this mean that you're automatically voting for a preset universe of 200+ people, mostly minnows?"
Yes, and it was a huge task. I had to create a spreadsheet where I tracked their post quality, frequency, and created notes. However, it was either that or not support them at all, as focusing on my own work takes a lot of my time up.
That goes on for over 200 entries, and everything past about 30 is minnows with no SP.
"I'm personally a believer in manual quality over quantity in general"
Me too, but when you get to my size, you start getting people whining at you everyday for not voting or following them. You either put up decent people on an autovoter or take crap every day.
You can DM me in MSP PAL if you like.
This post may also answer some of your questions: https://steemit.com/blog/@lexiconical/i-finally-converted-to-steemvoter-partially-it-s-quite-a-relief-actually