RE: What I don't like about Steemit
The truth is that the STEEM Blockchain truly is complicated but it can be understood with a little patience. But you can ask people about a single point of view and ask them to explain it a little. For example ask someone about VP issues and ask another Guy about the 15 Minute Rule. If you go to one guy and ask everything at once he/she is most likely to brush you off as it's a lot of explaining to do.
As for newbies not getting enough Upvotes is kind of correlated to Facebbok or Instagram newbies not etting enough likes on their Pictures when they join. You have to make relationships, friendships and treat Steemit as a Blooging platform and not just an Earning Platform. I have seen many people leave Steemit because when they saw Steemit from the outside they expected to get rich in a Week but in reality it takes Months of Grinding to get your Work up to a certain Level when others appreciate you.
I have a lot of things to add on but this Comment seems to be getting long. So if you have any doubts or want to ask something about this Platform feel free to hit me up. I might reply a little late but I will reply for sure.
Thanks for the response. But this stuff should have been explained better by the Steemit team and people should not go around asking other users. And BTW, when I asked around, I got different answers from different people. For example even old users are not sure how voting works. People stay all day on other social media websites where they don't get paid, so I think it's not about the money. It's just that steemit is overcomplicated. Yes newbies, don't get votes on other platforms but you don't see crap on their Trending page.
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Yes the upper brass is definitely lacked in the matter of Educating newbies. I fully agree on that fact but there are several guys out here who are willing to help out the newbies and educate them however they can.
As for different explanations from different people it might be because of the fact that the Curation system was pretty complicated and almost 60% of the people didn't knew how to curate properly. Let me quickly explain a little about curation.
Previously if anybody upvoted a post which was less than 30 mins old than they forefeited their curation rewards to the author. In this case the 100% rewards went to the author and the person who Upvotes gets nothing but after the recent Hardfork this changed into a different system. Now the time limit has been reduced from 30 mins to 15 mins. But if by any chance someone Upvotes a post before 15 mins than instead of all the rewards going to the author 25% of that reward goes back to the reward pool.
Sounds complicated right??
If you want to learn about curation and how to earn the maximum curation rewards you should check your daily payouts and curation payouts if you receive less than 20% curation rewards than you are doing something wrong but if you are getting over 30% curation rewards than you are definitely doing something right. Plus Curation also has a first come first serve basis rule where if you Upvote a post first and then some whale drops a big Upvote on the same post you receive more than 25% curation rewards.
As for the Trending page yes I agree it is kinda trash but believe me it has improved a lot since last year. Plus other Social Media pages also has a lot of Crap in them.