This is really unfair
I have spent so many years of my time curating daily, looking at the new feed every chance I get, whenever I see a good post I instantly upvote it, leave an original and thoughtout comment and even some replies to other comments in the same post while upvoting those too. I spend so much time making sure to read the full post or watch the full video or look into detail at the paintings and drawings users post and barely any gives me any credit for it.
Every time I find something amazing I want to share I make sure to do it at the most optimal time, make sure I source the original if it's not something original of my own and then I refresh the page constantly to see how well my post is doing and how much I'm being rewarded. I have never spammed, never uploaded the same content twice and always made sure to respond to everyone. Sometimes I get downvoted with no explanation, sometimes I get upvoted too much with no explanation, it's all good, I wasn't doing it for that anyway, it's the attention economy after all.
I have never received a thank you for doing such a great work curating a certain tag or helping grow a certain community. All this time I spent helping shape the front-end but at the end of the day I have nothing to show for it. Worst of all, all those rewards I earned got hyperinflated and any newbie that is just as active as I've been for many years can get the same amount of points as I have in total in a fraction of the time spent.
Why is this happening? Why are my worthless karma points even more worthless now, Reddit? WTF?
Karma is a bitch.
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XD winner
Lololol
I'm new to the steem platform and have MUCH to learn. I believe that the need for a platform like steemit is only going to continue growing as people become more aware of the issues of centralized platforms.
With that said, I appreciate your help with getting introduced to steemit 😁
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This post of yours has exceeded my all time high reward, so I kinda both don't know what you're talking and also agree. Something is not quite right. I think it's bad math, not bad intent.
Honestly you're right, it's a weird thing with rewards, I blame bad curation and autovoting. Would've sent beneficiaries to @teamocd but noticed in the end busy didn't have that option yet. It's weird when posts you don't put a lot of effort in or have something big to say get a lot of rewards and others don't, I'm sure we can be better curators over time, many ex/curating bid bots seem to not know what curation is which I don't blame them for.
Anyway I went ahead and lowered the rewards a bit:
hey you can't do that! your stealing curation rewards from me. :)
What you gonna do, buy a bid bot vote for my post? :P
Guess I can remove my downvote here now. :D
Make it an upvote as well.
Meh, decided not to self-vote anymore after newsteem. :D
Unfair! You should rage quit. That'll teach them.
Be sure to send me your keys before quitting ;).
I will add them to a post.
Haha I was prepping a post about how much you meant to me in the beginning and how it is folks like you who really help the sticking power of new folks.
Then I read about karma and knew something was up.
Expertly done. Thanks for all you do my friend.
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Lol nice twist 🤣
You are one of the best curators here on Steem and some people just don’t know that because they never look at authors outside their circle. We have seen what you do on the platform and we are grateful for it. Heh, you know I’m already thankful for your support but I’m gonna say it again: thank you for everything that you do to improve Steem as a whole. Promoting the platform on Reddit and even had GU players join, onboarding users and guiding them, making programs/contests for small authors to grow (ocd), are some of the things you do aside from curating.
Life is never fair... there’s always people out there who will try to destroy your image. Don’t let them :D
What I am interested in (helping people earn more income with option trading) no one finds worthy of upvoting or reading. Now I can not even post to receive SBI upvotes because Heajin has enough down-vote power on his own to squash my measly $1 rewards.
I hope one day steem can be more like reddit (maybe through tokenbb.io forum style) where it will be easier for the average person to participate in daily topics and rewarded. This would probably attract more users thereby increasing the value of steem.
The only thing that keeps me on Steemit is the other kinds of value... namely, being able to consume news and content that speaks freely without significant censorship (for now).
The "monetary" reward value here (so far) is worse than low... it's insultingly bad.
If things are to change, more people will need to find OTHER value in addition to the "monetary" reward... which, like a slot machine, makes for horribly bad game-play for anyone not hopelessly addicted to gambling.
I actually ignore Steemit for longer intervals when the only posts are about Steem (although, to be honest, once in a blue moon I read some of those too).
lol. Thank you for doing such a great work. I don’t use reddit. But still thank you.