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RE: Whales No Up-Voting Test
abit votes for my comments which is pretty much the only decent reward(s) i make now. I have to disagree with you on this. He is trying a different approach, its worth a try isn't it? It's only for 1 voting period to s. Its just interesting to see what it's like in a world without whales for a day.
No. I do not think it is worth a try. I'm open for almost any idea, however, when it comes to our end users and retention i would never agree to something like this.
@solarguy. If only you could also feel what it was like for 3 years as i worked nearly free of charge to get where i could be trusted and upvoted by whales for my efforts.
All this experiment does is teaches you about the feeling of earning rewards you havent worked for to the degree that others have...and does it at the expense of those who have proven themselves time and time again to some people who finally have some stake in a project they limely sacrificed a great deal for.
New users seem to forget this. Imagine if you had to work and post to steem for over 3 years, working a night job and barely seeing your family so you could make this possible. Then imagine someone who is new to the platform says "i think i deserve the respect and trust THAT GUY has! But i can only have it if it is TAKEN AWAY from him!!"
All benefit it looks like from the minnows side.
Why not just change the f*g N^2 rewards curve???
Jesus this isnt rocket science.
I do know the feeling of working hard and not getting to see my loved ones or do things that bring joy to my life.
I also know what it is like to spend days writing a great post to have it earn hefty rewards and also make less than a nickel.
U see i spoke out about what i saw was happening a couple months ago and pissed off every guild and whale and never had decent successful rewards wise post since. Not in 2 months. Though my following continued grow and my comments section was still a hit.
I still write about the same things and for a while after i still put in the effort.
Steemit is about politics more than content or its quality.
This experiment will prove that and so i can see why so many people are oppse it.
At the end of the day its just for a day or two. If this experiment is so bad then after its finished things will go back normal.
If the experiment has merit maybe it will change some users habits.
This isnt just to make newbies wanting a slice of the pie who just got here.
I dedicated my life to steemit. I welcomed hundreds hundreds, i gave advice and pointed people in the right direction. I promoted my fellow authors on and off the platform. I have over 470 followers. Most of my posts have very active comment sections.
I fit the description of an author who is well liked and appreciated by many here but it does not reflect in my rewards because the few people who can give me them dont like me for something i said months ago. I was not wrong this experiment will prove it.
I did nothing so bad other than expose an issue that is clearly being missed by many.
I too sacrificed my time and energy for this place. Not just the people in favour or in power
The problem is that if it were a PROPER experiment people would not be blindsided and left out (unless they are meant to be the control). What this was was nothing more tham a half assrd attempt at what? Changing the system for 2 days?
Nothing in have seen even tells me what SPECIFIC datapoints they are trying to tease from the community :P
Steem is not 3 years old, only about a year, what are you referring to here?
You don't earn rewards, they are given to you according to votes. Working hard does not equal high payout. Quality is subjective. People are free to use their votes however they want.
It's not rocket science, you're right.
Quality is very subjective indeed. I guess all social networks - including steem have the problem how good content is measured. Steem has tried with Higher Quality = Sum of (Votes * Power of Vote). So far so good. Now the value of the post ist distributed back to the voters, those with more power get back more part of the treasure.
This leads to an expotentional growth of those which are :
started earlier than others, and thus posted more and longer.
But new people can't rally up? As they always will only get some very tiny fractions from the value.
So some could even work hard, but get not much from it.
Also it creates a "class" of rich people, medium class and working poor. Is that the social network some wants to create?
Pretty much everyone I've talked to wants this to be done.