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RE: Two Ways to Earn With SmartSteem: Do the Smart Thing!
Hey @smartsteem, hope you are well,
I made this d.tube video of my thoughts on why vote selling/buying gets away from one of the main value propositions for the platform - quality content. It wasn't directed towards you or anyone in particular. But a good place for this discussion I think. Are you concerned at all about how vote buying could negatively affect the quality of the trending page?
upvoted to aggrandize myself
Hi Richard, thanks for your comment. Not representing Thereal or the team, though I am a moderator there, I can tell you that we look for the best content before providing users with a whitelist ranking. This means, that to receive a huge upvote from our users, you would need to have a rank 3 (excellent). Plagiarism, hate speech, racism, spam, etc. are not whitelisted, and even in some cases blacklisted, so that kind of content will not receive our support. That is why I as small Steem investor support from the inception SmartSteem and the reason why I work with the team to promote it actively.
I also consider that many bots which do not have this kind of quality separation, are indeed a bad seed for the success of the platform.
Thanks for your thoughtful response. What do you have to do to get rank 3?
I know these bots usually don't upvote and even blacklist plagiarism, hatespeach, spam, etc.they wouldn't get away with that for long, but the problem is that the goal is not about what is good, its about money. I see greed destroying all of our major institutions in the U.S., and I really don't want to see it destroy Steemit.
What do you see as the long term value propisition for vote buying/selling? How will it add value to the platform overtime?
An excellent steemer would be someone who is great at content, format, etc. but most important gives a great added value to the blockchain community. So, original content plus added value. We use standard criteria before vetting, but of course, there is room for subjectivity.
Would recomend you to sign in for the whitelist, use my link and apply for a whitelisted user, we have a lot of requests right now, due to this post. Hence, bear with us please.
You still didn't answer my main question.
I do not know where Steem will be in the next 3 years, no one knows for sure. As for now, I can distinguish SmartSteem with its whitelisted solution. There is a blacklist with all those who plagiarize, spams or have simply thousand "follow me" requests. We try to keep the content quality at a min. of average. All that is below that does not get through the Whitelist.
If in the near future SmartSteem gets to be the most preferred upvoting solution for big players, those who do not have an average content will eventually leave Steem for good, leaving room for better quality content.
That is the main point in the short-term. Other solutions may arise if the Blockchain is modified on its core.
Transparency is key here, only by looking at someone wallet and posts you know on what they are now. Every anarcho system goes from total chaos to a self-regulated sustainable system. SS is part of that evolution, as many other Dapps.
I hope this answer is what you were expecting.
Thank you. If smartsteem focuses on quality content maybe thats an improvement over some current bots, but I still see these vote buying bots extracting value from Steemit over time and getting away from what made it great. I'll quite hassling you though. Thanks for taking the time to talk to me.
If I were to deposit/buy more STEEM or SBD does that mean I would earn more?
Hi Catdaddy, only by buying or having more SP you would generate more income through a service like SmartSteem. As also when you curate others content.
For more info, use this link; and click on the "Calculate Revenue" button on the right corner
How can we sell our votes by the way? or how do we know that the bots did the upvote for us?
Once you are registered to sell your votes you will have a user interface where you can see your balance and each of your upvotes sold.
ahh so if you don't have SP the bots can't use Upvotes from any account ? is that so?
If I were to deposit/buy more STEEM or SBD does that mean I would earn more?
Santana, I really appreciate all of your responses. I've been learning a whole lot more from your responses than the actual article which has been quite refreshing.
Thanks a lot @roselynn it really warms my heart that you consider my information so useful.
Hey richard,
SmartSteem is an evolving system which focuses on empowering quality content on Steem.
It's not perfect yet, but we are working on it! :)