RE: Is Steemit In An Economic and Social Death Spiral??
Hi Stellabelle,
I write about markets professionally, I tend to make about $75 AUD an hour if I've had enough coffee that morning. I make a little less than that for my posts on Steem, even with the help of profitable vote buying from MinnowBooster. If I was unable to give them that extra boost to the hot section, it probably wouldn't be worth me posting here.
Unlike other voting bots, MB has strict quality controls in place: they work actively with SteemCleaners, blacklisting scammers and have just implemented the new whitelist feature for manually verified quality content creators.
Though I largely use MB to boost my own posts, I've often done charitable things with it too - I've gifted Minnows thousands of SP and bought them solid upvotes on intro posts. When I read @evelynbelle's introduction post, I was really impressed and she mentioned she was in a bit of financial trouble so I bought her a ~$17 SBD upgoat. I checked back in to her profile yesterday and was stoked to see her earning 30 SBD on her recent posts. That is decent money in Nigeria. @Bania is another Nigerian success story helped along by myself and Reggaemuffin from MinnowBooster.
Reggaemuffin is by far the coolest guy I've met on this platform, he really cares about it and I reckon it sucks he struggles with witness rankings just because people disagree with the MinnowBooster project. Considering his love for the blockchain, technical wizardry and support for worthwhile community projects, this guy deserves to be top 20. When we were having bandwidth issues months ago, he was one of the few witnesses talking about it and pushing for action.
Yes MB is a profitable venture, but they also have thousands of happy customers they've helped and continue to help. I see a lot of people throwing stones at projects making a difference, but what do the stone throwers actually do to address the obvious hurdles new Steemians face?
If MB means just one more quality content creator stays on the platform, I think it's worth it.
this was a great response. maybe you can write a post about reggaemuffin, and i will resteem it. I have worked with him in spaminator and he is great person, deserves to be in top 20.
Thanks @Stellabelle. Yeah Reggae is a great guy and I'll seriously consider writing a post in honour of his greatness! I'm still waiting for him to an interview with @Scaredycatguide on MSP-radio which I think would be very interesting ( @reggaemuffin - give the people what they want!)
I'd happily host that interview on YouAreHOPE radio, and if you recall, I am the guy who built and then resigned from MSP Waves. :D The new station is just getting started, but we do plan to host @anarcho-andrei's witness interview show in the coming weeks, and I love @reggaemuffin as well, so we should do the thing here you are asking for @bulleth and get this show on the road!
I am just old and maybe not the shapest pencil to reply, but to me it is very important to just enjoy writing on steemit even if I dont earn much, but I still love it. It would have meant I had so sit and knit or do something that I always did. After retirement steemit just gave me that little extra use of my brain. So if there is a way I am sure there are clever people who will come up with some idea. Loved your post.
That is where I was, just happily posting and commenting then steemcleaners stopped by to accuse m e of spam tag, and adm stopped in to upvote the bot.
I suffer anxiety attacks. Getting "triggered" by a brainless and heartless bot was not funny. What happened was NOT acceptable to me. I flag and mute bots now and am just waiting for a platform where bots are not allowed to join. Feel free to look at what I WAS posting to decide if I am a "quality creator" or not. I have been told all of my life that I am an excellent writer, but maybe all those humans were wrong and the damned bots are right, I am just a spammer.
But we could not hide the fact that MB was created for profit because if not, why sell upvotes when it can use to directly upvote people's content. Beside, there's a curation rewards which is considerately huge in proportion to its SP.
I'm not against MB, I'm also not attacking anybody. Just expressing my thought as @stellabelle wanted in this post.
Of course, I don't think anyone here or from the MB team has ever tried to hide the fact that MB is profitable enterprise. I don't think there's anything wrong with running a profitable enterprise on chain either :)
I didn't say its wrong either :) its just that the essence of what has been started in the community are now gradually gone. Unless it was built for that purpose.
steemcleaners sucks, they are why I will be seeking a new platform. NO BOTS on social media for humans.
@Steemcleaners aren't bots, they are people and they are awesome. With out them, this platform would suck. Robots are here to stay and as the future nears we'll be seeing a lot more of them, both on social media and IRL.
Oh my... You folks who are so young that you never lived without technology in your face all the time just have a total blind spot. Not, "bots" are not here to stay. The earth is not "under control." There WILL be natural disasters, at some point humanity will likely be sent back to the stone age, even if we avoid nuking ourselves there. Allowing AI to become a lynchpin to your life is going to leave you pretty screwed when the lights go out. And there will be a split in society, I am not the only one who will NOT allow AI to be part of my "social" life. YOU will choose to see more of them, I will choose to see less of them.
Bots are great, you are being irrational. I just used a voting bot to help this little girl who needs spinal surgery https://steemit.com/teamaustralia/@bulleth/a-fellow-team-australian-s-little-sister-needs-our-help
cc OP @stellabelle
Now you are being unkind to a genuine human so that you may extoll the virtues of a bot. That is the exact sort of nonsense I will not toleate. I have been upvoting cryptopie whenever I see his posts. I actually read them, try to know him as a human rather than just let a bot go "virtue signal" for me. You, like the bots, are now muted. I do NOT play with AI, and I do not waste time with people who cannot understand that HUMAN interaction is vital to a peaceful world. Bots feed the divide and conquer folks. I am not irrational, I made a very rational decision, just different from yours. but that does not make me less of a human or stupid or any other insults you care to hurl at a SENSITIVE HUMAN.
Bots are not great - they suck balls and are totally fucking up Steemit...