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RE: Curator Cat says: The Name of the Social Game is... ENGAGEMENT!
Some people just seem to ignore the social aspects. I was just looking at an account that churns out posts with comedy videos (not his own) and buys votes on them. There are almost no human comments on these and he is not commenting either. This shows that just buying votes does not create engagement. He earned a few flags that might encourage him to change, but we shall see.
I'm obviously a compulsive commenter and social animal. That's fun for me and the money is a bonus.
Hi @steevc and thanks for the comment! I recognize your name from Asher's League listings.
I can't help but think that we are still suffering some aftereffects of people somewhat misrepresenting Steem/Steemit in the early efforts to build a user base...
To me, that statement is very telling. But early Steemit was all about "Get on Steemit and MAKE MONEY!" with "oh, it's a social content site...." as an afterthought.
Your words suggest "Get on Steemit for an alternative and censorship resistance social content experience!" with "...oh, and you can build stake and earn money" as the afterthought. I believe if the latter had been the primary approach, we'd have a very different situation today.
The upside of the massive market slump is that many of those who simply saw this as a massive cash grab have left in disappointment, leaving the community builders a better chance to create their own base and following in preparation for the next upswing.
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Things tend to change as the Steem price swings around, but there's still lots of cynical cash-grabbing going on. Certain people on trending do it despite having a good following. It seems like compulsive behaviour to me.
Trending is a strange fish... it should really be renamed "sponsored content," or something more truthful... and anything with even a single bidbot vote separated into a separate feed, with trending being purely organically popular.
I have noticed a few regular fixtures on Trending actually create really worthy content... I guess they just treat it purely as a business, pocketing the 5-10% possible profit on $300 worth of upvotes. Not my game... but sometimes I have to admit that there is some good stuff there. But I still thing it's a pretty ridiculous representation of our community, given that Trending is what a new visitor who has never logged in sees, first thing.
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