Let's make Steemit a better place together!
During the past few days, I've had the growing realization that this platform is dangerous for my mental health. Ever since I joined Steemit I've dealt with some pretty strong emotions. There has been lots on enthusiasm and excitement, the occasional RAGE, but most annoyingly I've felt this constant, aching frustration! And it came from a combination of things.
The first was probably my perfectly human envy at seeing other people make more money than I am, and some of them on pretty poor content.
Another thing that bothered me was the uncertainty in my ability: are my posts not good enough or is this system not acknowledging my GENIUS? (insert laughing emoji)
Besides, every time I wrote an article I felt a bit like it was Christmas Eve. You expect something magical to happen in the morning, then you wake up to realize you have no friends and don't believe in Santa. So you got NOTHING!
Recently I discovered the voting bots and guess what? Now I'm losing money paying them to make sure you guys get to read what I write, because hey, I believe in myself!
A couple of days ago I politely argued with a few people in the comments of this post: https://steemit.com/steemit/@corina/a-little-encouragement-for-newbies-and-minnows about the issues and needs of Steemit. It is still a young platform, and even though I believe in its potential, I can clearly see that many users are giving up; and for good reason.
When you get introduced to this place you first hear about the reward system, and you're pretty sure you'll get rich. With big expectations, disappointment is even greater when you face the above mentioned experiences.
In order for Steemit to grow, we don't just need to get more new users, but to find a way to keep them!
A lot of posts have been published about this, and no whales have gotten involved. So I ask you fellow Steemians to do a brainstorm and share ideas on how to fix the issues on this platform! If we work together, we can do it ourselves!
I concur 100%! Steemit can be soul crushing.
You're led to believe that if you post good content, you will be rewarded. So when you do and hardly anyone respond to your Blog, you wonder why are you wasting your time, if no one sees or ignores you just because you're a minnow.
There's lack of integrity on this site, I believe. New Steemians leave in droves because they're led to believe this is totally different than posting on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: here you get paid for your efforts and it turns out to be false. It doesn't meet up with the claims on the package.
Then you're told that if want to be successful and have your Blog grow, you have to buy all sorts of things like bots, SP, upvotes. This isn't authentic...this is pure desperation.
Where are the Whales and Dolphins as this massacre is taking place? Why are they not reaching out to the little guys? Their pond will become become murky eventually if they don't welcome new fish and give them a taste of the bait.
So yes, I've been desperate and sent 0.700 SBD to hugewhale and received absolutely nothing in return. Another soul crushing moment! But I didn't give up. I sent another 0.700 SBD to some other service that promised the sky and received .55 and perhaps 5 upvotes. What a laugh...how was that worth 0.700SBD? Perhaps it is... I'm still doing the calculations but just look at the figures! Any idiot can see that this don't add up!
Anyhow, I'm not one to surrender!
I still like the potential of this platform and determined to grow with it.
Now if only Whales and Dolphins pull their finger out....
PEACE...OUT
Thank you for your comment. Yea I think the biggest problem is the high financial expectations people come here with. Everyone expects to make a lot of money and don't focus on blogging like they would on any other site. Unfortunately bots only help you get your posts seen, and you can lose money using them. I am at the moment!
But what can be explained for the ones making shitty post and people actually upvote them. They said in their banner that you get rewarded for good content they should be doing that
Thanks for sharing your experiences, we will learn from you and continue to promote steem, i think if we expect less and participate more we will get more out of this platform
Yeah this platform isn't the simplest in the world but on the bright side I think I may have a "decent" understanding of it. I also made a few less negative comments that are waiting on my bot army that is waiting on funding to arrive. Hard to compete with a $10 steem hater post but I can still try. lol You should do another similar post in the introduceyourself section next month when I am stronger and ready for the post to arrive. Feel free to upvote this stellar post at 100% and earn some creation rewards if you can beat me and one of my bot soldiers.
Let say we share our upvotes 50% opvoting our post and 50% upvoting good (OT TRENDING, BOT UPVOTED) posts, what do you say?
Hehe Your account sure does not look like someone who does not make money on steemit :P
Also i have noticed people who have little SP tend to give to new users. i give atleast one or two every day in the introduce yourself segment. but its the ones with the serious money who don't share. I am not really surprised. Thats just how it is in real life. Why would Steemit be any different. Steemit too is part of society and thus will reflect the values that society at large promotes....
(upvoted for visibility, please don't flag )
The money that is shown is what she has bought from bid-bots. That's what she means when she wrote "Recently I discovered the voting bots and guess what? Now I'm losing money paying them to make sure you guys get to read what I write, because hey, I believe in myself!"
You pay with your own money for bots to upvote you, like that you get on the trending page and you get seen. But, you pay for it.
I just joined Steemit, and it is pretty overwhelming. How do you make your voice heard in a crowd that is roaring (with artificial bot produced roars)... I am intrigued to see how it goes. Thanks for this honest post.
I agree that there's definitely a learning curve with Steemit. Do your due diligence, and never betray your 'gut'. This is not a utopian society; so, imagine it being real-world...a whole lot of good people and the occasional shade-sters mingled in who are all about scamming you out of your earnings...But, as a world traveller and crypto pro, you're too smart for that...Lol..Let's hope so, anyway.
Just enjoy Steemit as you would any other social-media platform. What sets STEEM platforms apart is that, potentially you get a tip for your efforts. These efforts add up and can be used as trading for other crypto, or just letting it grow as STEEM.
The bots are a thorn; but, really not so much, once it becomes clear that the actual value of the payout is inflated.
Best regards.
Peace.
Great post @corina
This place is a cross between Twitter, a rate my picture site and a role playing game! All very addictive but put them together and you turn into an obsessive lunatic! :) My wife now wakes up at 2am to find me tapping out a reply on my phone.
Obsessive or not, I still enjoy it.
Gaz
Man! Seriously. It’s great fun though .. even if no one reads it
It is kind of sad when no one reads your post but I still live in hope that, one day, I'm going to get 500 views on a piece of writing!
Is there a flying Pig emoji anywhere?
This is amazing! I've had (have!) the exact same feelings like you and you have been one of the people that I was jealous of because you seemed to earn so much money, lol!
And I know how you feel, I'm in a period where I feel the same thing. I don't want to put out my heart and soul in my articles just to get absolutely nothing back, so how to do it? Don't have an answer to it, was thinking to try to do the "nice" bots, @randowhale etc. Will see if that would give any results. I found one whale though who has the same opinion as us minnows and is trying to find a solution: https://steemit.com/steemit/@yallapapi/hey-steemit-whales-how-d-you-like-to-fix-all-of-steemit-s-problems-and-make-bank-by-doing-absolutely-nothing
Btw, your articles are really good, the kind of quality content that Steemit is meant for.
Thank you so much for your comment. Yeah, I haven't made any money since 2 years ago, when I was lucky enough to find Steemit early on and make some SP. I hope people who know more about how this platform works can come up with ideas on how to make it fairer.
Wow, interesting. I've only been on here for three weeks, I've posted some articles (and got somehow lucky and earned money on one of them, I didn't do anything for it) and then came across some other posts about the experience of other people on here. So I did some more research before I put too much work for nothing to see how I best go ahead with this, and I'm still in the process.
But you mean that your 61 points in reputation came in the beginning and that's it? Was the platform different then/ it was easier to be seen? And the reputation doesn't help you to get seen? I thought that if you are a whale (based on reputation, and for me 61 means "whale") you automatically get more coverage, but maybe that's not the case? And how is your "advertising campaign" working out btw? Is it worth paying bots?
Personally, I really like the idea of Steemit and I understand that it's just in the beginning so not everything can be perfect (and you seem to be of the same opinion), and I've been trying to see if there is anything that I /minnows can do, so we don't just sit around waiting for someone else to fix the problem. We are part of the community too in the end. Although I can see that that opinion is maybe very naive and many of the minnows/ people who don't earn money already have tried a lot of things.
The question then is: Does anyone earn any money on Steemit or is all of the post on the trending page bid-bots?
The reputation comes from writing and getting likes and comments, not necessarily from the amount of money you have. I'm also a minnow, very very far from whale. Whales are usually accounts that have hundreds of thousands SP. Dolphins are considered any accounts with around 50 thousand SP.
People who earn a lot on steemit are the ones who already have a lot of SP or a huge number of followers. When you SP is high you get bigger curation reward for any vote, or you can delegate the SP to bots and they pay you for it. I hope this makes sense
Ah, ok, then I understand. I'm working on some idea how to earn money with Steemit, if you follow me you'll get it in the feed when I post it. (Or maybe you have enough of Steemit and want to just leave it)
:) nice post
Hey @corina! The wait is over 😁. This is the year Steemit is going in the world, so hang in there 😃.
The whales will get involved only if there's an incentive to do this. Yeah, money talks 😁!
@yallapapi is having a pretty good idea about how things work and what can be done to get those whales involved 😉.
Also, this is a life style. Consistency and patience will pay off in time. People who give up are not the right people for this platform anyway 😋. I am not telling you this, as I can see clearly that you already know how things go here 😄.
Another thing you know is that your writing style is easy to follow, and I enjoy reading every article you make.
Keep up the good work, can't wait for the next one 🤩!
I hope you're right. I know there are a lot of new accounts opening everyday, so who knows. Thanks for comment!
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