RE: I Will Upvote Constructive Comments by 5-10 Cents - Let's Improve Content on Steemit Together
I second what @anonymint has to say. I don't comment by the rules ...making me count how many words I've written or whether I have provided a link or not. I don't want to feel stupid if I comment more than 20 words as all those extra words won't earn anything to me, it's a waste of all my efforts! And if you are decided that you won't upvote my comment twice in 24 hour period then you are actually discouraging me to comment more.
I read your terms as:
- My comment shouldn't be shorter than 20. If it were, I don't even know the math to earn an upvote by you!
- My comment shouldn't exceed 20 words and if it does, I'm a stupid who is not utilizing all his words wisely and wasting his energy in typing extra words.
- I shouldn't comment more than once here in a period of 24 hours. If I do then obviously I'm a stupid!
- I need to learn and follow all these rules only for a 5 day period!
...And much more. I don't wanna keep on writing about that. But what I feel is that comments or for that matter any interaction should be spontaneous and appear natural. If everyone of your move is guided by some strict rules then you are not a human but some machine!
Sorry, I ain't sounding any pleasant here but I'm not here to earn 5 or 10 cents. At other places, my comments can earn several dollars. Why I'm wasting my time where the upper limit is only 10 cents! I'm really stupid, you know!
If our knowledge is astute, we can earn more trading in a group where they trade back valuable knowledge. Knowledge production is worth more than 10 cents. That is the Inverse Commons.
I don’t think you intended to be unpleasant. You’re just expressing yourself.
The OP was not intending to restrict degrees-of-freedom. You’re pointing out that he inadvertently did. There are tradeoffs. I hope we can find models that are not too one-dimensional.
Yes @anonymint, knowledge too is the Inverse Commons. My sincere thanks to you to link to that article. It was really an interesting read!
And yeah, I do feel that the author of this post is in quest to establish some ideal model for encouraging and adopting a right perspective towards content generation on this platform. I was just trying to post a critique of his model. (But it's also true, personally I didn't like his approach. But who cares ..."your blog your rules" 😉)
Voting incentives spammers such this one linked below:
https://steemit.com/@saqib/comments
I downvoted many of his comments, because he is just spamming the system hoping to get 5 and 10 cents here and there. Must be a bot or someone from a third world country. I suspect he is operating many sock puppets and replies to himself with them:
https://steemit.com/@saqib/recent-replies
It’s quite pointless for me to waste my time downvoting to try to lower his reputation. The downvoting design of Steem thus incentivizes pointless activity. My main motivation was to retaliate for him downvoting my recent blog about Marisa Mayer, so as to let him know that downvoting is highly discouraged on Steemit and should only be done to flag low quality, spam, fraud, or abusive content. To express disagreement, one should post a comment, not issue a downvote. Punishing quality content creation with downvotes (which impact the author’s reputation score) is the antithesis of incentivizing the growth of Steemit.
@xyzashu Your comment has provided me lots of value and things to think about, I appreciate that.
This campaign was an experiment designed to see what types of comments I could get considering I am fairly unknown on Steemit. I want to kickstart my blog by incentivizing people to follow, interact and provide value. So far the experiment has proven very successful and I am considering simply upvoting all constructive comments (not just for 5 days) in an effort to bring more people to blog and to get more people in the mindset of providing value.
I'm hoping that by offering this type of incentive, people will start commenting and thinking about the topics I write about regardless of whether or not they are compensated. Maybe I'm just being idealistic :)
Either way it's a work in progress and I'm going to adapt as I get more feedback like yours, thanks again!
Great that you found my comment of some value. It shows your positive approach to things.
But I'd add that whatever works for you is good if you are satisfied by it. Who am I? You can't please all!
And thanks, I loved the amendment you made by quashing the 5 day limit. 😊
All the best to you! Steem on! I'm following you now to see how you progress and would like to learn from your experiments too.