RE: Big Pay out and some lessons learned about stimulating comments vs payoff. About Randowhale
Firstly, thank you for the payout. It was greatly appreciated.
Secondly, did it make a difference? I commented because we had been talking in the other room. That I think is part of the need for Steem. More interaction outside of following the front page on Steemit.
The Slack rooms can be both informative and useful for following up posts. Perhaps this needs a better merge of tools. Obviously the steem chat wasn't so good.
My final point, which after making a few times now in the hopes that someone up top might run with it, is comments to me are the key.
Why are simple upvotes consider of more value than the time and effort of a comment?
THat part makes absolutely no sense. Once a comment is made, usually it is responded to by the original poster. This can escalate. I had a recent post of maybe 20 comments yet the post raised a massive 13cents. That's just plain Irish logic there.
The comment section should be the driver for the rewards not upvotes.
So back to the first point, no, I commented because I like your posts. If I comment in future it wont be because of the money, though I appreciate it.
hi @centaurmystic,
In the end it yours was one of the comments that answered most to the spec's of the prize so I could not leave yours out ;) .
the whole steemit.com ecology needs to grow still and develop. There are good tools, and no doubt others that will die off. I think the feed system is one of those.
There should be a way to filter the feed to your preferences, say for tags, keywords, author combinations etc.
https://beta.chainbb.com is better for finding good content I believe.
I think that quality will win out in the end. So I am not too worried that the cat video type posts are winning the battle at the moment, that is a bit of an anomaly of the beginning.
I see a lot of willingness from the dev's to pull the various levers at their disposal and see what happens.
One aspect an author on steemit.com should also keep in mind is google juice. Once the platform breaks through, a portfolio of quality posts I think should help a lot to build a following.
Since steemit.com's rank as a website is higher ranked, posts on it will have better SEO.
If you are gaming the system with posts that game the upvoting system, yeah that might gather a few bucks but long-term it will be (hopefully) easily be drowned out.