RE: A little Encouragement for Newbies and Minnows!
Now that that's over, if you actually want to know how it works on this platform, you should read these:
@corina - don't mislead new people. Without money, they have no chance of building a powerful account. Even with money it's slow going and risky because STEEM price is volatile and vote bots don't always produce a profit.
I don't mean to come down on you hard because I'm pretty sure you have good intentions. But if people read shit like this and it makes them feel better, they'll never do anything to improve the situation. They'll stay satisfied with the status quo and nothing will ever change.
If, on the other hand, new users and a majority of the current userbase are upset at the way things are going, then things are more likely to change. If we have to lose a few people along the way, fine. But it will be worth it in the long run if there is a system that properly rewards people for their contributions instead of what we have now.
Otherwise, this site will be made up of 99% "minnows" who are basically people with nothing better to do than write blog posts and interact with each other in the comments section of the Trending page. Sure, people will form friendships etc etc and that's great, but why settle for that?
This could be a place where people actually create good content and get paid for it. Isn't that the point? Yes community blah blah blah, but we're here to make money and participate in a system that at least has some semblance of fairness.
Why "encourage" people to grin and bear it instead of trying to change things? If everyone plays nice and pretends to be happy with their $0.10 posts and a COMPLETE lack of options for earning reliable income on this platform, what incentive do the developers and/or executive team have to implement anything that will change how things work?
I don't agree with some of the more "vocal" users on this platform regarding how to improve this place, but I respect that they are willing to get on stage and yell into their megaphone.
Sometimes people need to hear that things are not ok, that they're not fair and that unless something is added to the system then they are laboring under false pretenses and most likely wasting their time.
Though we have n argue in other thread I generally agree with you @yallapapi
The post is a pretending that all is great and we have some kind of meritocracy here where reward is proportional to one efforts and quality of the material. It is not.
Our job right now is to make steemit better and welcoming place. ANd it is a hard job.
I've been trying to do a lot of training especially about the .02 earnings threshold. I REALLY wish I had known about that sooner. I think it should be lowered to .01.
Can I ask what the .02 threshold is?
If your blog post or comment earns .00-.0199 you will get paid nothing. If I upvote your comment all by myself you get paid nothing. .015 to .0199 does show up as .02 but you still do not get paid.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@mysearchisover/steemit-steem-fraud-i-got-robbed
so i am a new user should i prefer to do comments or upvote for earning ?
Comments and bots and you can also upvote people like me 30 minutes after I post and before my bot arrives for curation awards.
Thanks
Thank you for your detailed comment. Steemit isn’t perfect, but let’s not forget that it’s still pretty young. It has a lot of time to grow and improve and become fairer for everyone. In order for it to grow it needs people interested in making a difference, in writing actual good stuff.
Moreover, it isn’t a money-making paltform, it’s a social media platform, a blogging platform. And social media is about getting to know people and making friends. Just like the other blogging websites, you don’t earn until you’ve worked hard to build your reputation, to get people to read what you write!
I hate seeing wasted votes. I think you should upvote your own comment and maybe help give out some curation rewards.
Other than the .02 earnings threshold which I think should be .01 I'd say it's pretty damn good.
Still, it is useful for minnows to implement the tips in the post, they make a difference.
@yallapapi so in your opinion, does it mean that in order to earn in steemit, you have to "invest" ? What kind of investment that you are referring to ? i believe that people in this community, who in actual fact, besides sharing good content is to make come income where, where you get "Paid for content".
What should we be doing to better gain better exposures of our posts ?
Yes. You have to learn to invest especially when you are coming in newly. You need the SP and the Steem to get quality money and comments. Having followers without good SP is a waste of time . When people see your posts, they want to know who thae guy is because people want to make connections.
Read the two posts at the top of this comment chain.
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$10.00 steem
We are absolutely in agreement here. This is why QORA will have a totally new way of incentive being built in Generation 2. Not to mention that QORA is ACTUALLY decentralized (unlike steemit being a .com, you can get to QORA blogs by going to your localhost, which connects you to the QORA network.)
Right now, in Gen 1, blogs, websites, etc. exist and can be hosted on the QORAnet. We're not quite finished with the Gen 1 fixes and upgrades, then we'll be working on Gen 2, but you might wanna come check out our Discord...
https://discord.gg/3HYYz5r