The Most Useless Post On Steemit
Steemit is so much fun and extremely addicting which is not surprising considering the guys who invented it are experts in game theory. They seem to have figured out how to keep us involved using the platform.
However, lately, there has been an influx of new users that don't seem to understand the idea of genuinely engaging with others on this platform and their responses sometimes verge on the ridiculous side.
I'm sure some of you have received some stupid comments before and I'd like to hear them.
Sometimes I'll make a post that shares a music video and get a response that says:
Oh lengthy post, I am new to Steem. This was a useful post for me, I learned a lot.
Really? What can you learn from watching a music video?
I'm not sure if these people are really people or just bots but it's obvious their comment has nothing to do with the content of the post.
They just added a comment so they can upvote themselves. There's nothing wrong with upvoting yourself per say, but to upvote your comment that says something like, thanks, is just SO wrong in my opinion.
Another thing I'm seeing lately is people commenting with something like:
Great post. Upvoted and resteemed.
When you check you discover they did not resteem your post and only upvoted their comment. Where I come from we call that lying.
I have seen this happen on my posts many times and I always respond with something like:
I would thank you for the reteem and upvote but you did not resteem and upvote this post.
They never respond back. It's a shame to see this happening so often on Steemit but what are you going to do?
I guess they think most people won't check to see if they really did resteem their post and may just return the favor. I'm not sure what they are thinking really because my mind doesn't work that way.
I thought of making a post with totally useless information to see how many comments respond with,
Great post. Very useful information.
So here are 5 totally useless tips just to see how many stupid responses come in. If they do respond with rubbish, I'm going to make fun of them when I respond to their comment. Why? Because it's fun.
You can help me tease them too. So, without further ado here are 5 useless tips to use as comment bait.
5 Useless Tips
- If your balls itch you should scratch them.
- Don't eat yellow snow.
- To prevent sunburns stay out of the sun.
- When you're hungry eat something.
- To create a sentence you should use words.
Totally useless advice, right? Now let's see what happens in the comments below.
Please don't take anything I say in this post seriously. I'm just having some fun with people who post silly comments.
What is the silliest comment you have ever received on one of your posts?
I think your tips are useful. Very informative post.
So I think I am going to upvote myself. A lousy 3 cents :)
In all seriousness, I feel your pain. But is part of the game. You are talking the 'Internet' here, bro. No rules, not manners, no nothing. Nobody feeling limited because of anonymity, no repercussions, every 12 yr old kid can be a 26 gorgeous girl and speaking/linking trash is free.
So it would be a bit idealistic to think that Steemit would not attract this kind of posters. I hope the effect will wear off over time. After all, posting does require some thinking. And thinking is hard.
To end with something to think about:
“The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Yes, the internet tends to strip people of their common sense and civility sometimes. Steemit is very different though, at least until very recently, in that people who get it and do well here are usually conducting themselves using their best behaviour. The authors that last give more than they take from the platform.
Only recently have we seen more people who appear to be trying to take and give very little. I believe though that in time they will come to realise their tactics will not give them the rewards they thought they would and they will eventually lose interest.
Like you said;
Thanks for the Oscar Wilde quote. It is something to think about.
Today I received a comment about how photogenic I was...and I wasn't in the photograph at all. LMAO!!!!
This post is golden. I, too, have noticed a huge influx of the bot comments recently. I like to give people benefit of the doubt, and understand that with new users on the platform, they're still learning how it works...but to see all the bots harder at work than some of the n00bs is pretty disheartening. I hope that the crowd does its job of showing folks how we truly operate around here...posts like this hopefully will help that along. Thanks, Luz!
Quality is key!!
It is going to take some time for the newer users doing this kind of commenting to realize things are different on Steemit. And we have to let them all know and show them how to really engage. I like to think of adding comments as just having a real discussion with people on the topic we are talking about.
As @wekkel commented above;
Upvoted and Resteemed. Follow back? Oh, and I think I'll upvote my own post too. My balls are itchy.
LOL
Nice tips, very useful! ......
LOL... This happens all the time dude, those are newbies (probably) that dont know much of how the site works...
I also have gotten some crap comments like: "Great performance, specially the vocal!", on an instrumental video LOL...
At some point they have to figure that this attitude is not helping them...
Indeed. You actually gotta listen to the song to make a comment. If you don't have the time to listen, then these peeps should just comment on photography, because a comment like "Oh that looks pretty!" is actually relevent.
So far none of the typical "bots" comments. Maybe they've built in logic to avoid any posts that have the phrase 'yellow snow' in them :P haha
Agree though. I recently joined and seem to see the same 3-5 profiles post a few seconds after the post came out. In this case it would be impossible to read so much text in 10 seconds!
This rarely used to happen until the last two months. Now I usually get a lame comment 10 seconds after publishing. Impossible to read the post in that time and obviously, judging by the comment, not related to the topic.
Curiously it didn't happen on this post. Perhaps you're right. Bots must not like yellow snow either.
Death to bots! ... no? too soon? :)
Obvious bots are obvious, although I do enjoy the bots programmed to speak chinglish.
I can speak fluent Tequilish. I can teach you to speak fluently in two hours guaranteed.
Good post and completely agree. Remember that people will be people. That you can count on...Their senselessness.
This is actually a really funny post, I am astounded by that Laura Morton post wow really ??
someone trying to argue that the world is flat quoted that 'The Flat Earth Theory is known all around the GLOBE' lmao
Do you mean you don't have an idea why they do this way? really?
They upvote themselves for the money of course. But saying you resteemed someone's post when you didn't. No, I don't understand that at all. It's so easy to check and instantly labels them as liars. What is the upside to that?
you are the guy with 72+ reputation.
All they need only your attention for any cost :)) Who knows maybe you just upvote every comment without reading
No, I don't upvote every comment without reading it.
I don't upvote whales just because they're whales and don't upvote my own comments usually. I don't follow people unless I like their stuff. I haven't started voting less since the last hardfork.
I just engage with people and give as much as I can to the platform. All that other stuff would seem to just hurt your reputation in my view.
since I don't have a lot of SP, I leased some SP for upvoting my community.
The major issue which I can see here on Steemit is people don't understand the fact that all can move as humans, even in our real lives, only with building connections .
I can guess it's new paradigm on our Planet. We can grow only together.
What is why I support a community, what is why I'm building community around. if everyone grows, then the community power is multiplied and everyone too, btw.
Just my few cents