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azircon (69)in #steemit • 7 years ago

This is a thought provoking post. I am a new user and I agree with your points regarding spam commenting and spam post. Steemit platform is full of it. I must confess I am guilty of this myself sometimes. But the real question we should ask is why people are doing it? Let me address in a few points:

You started in Sep 2017, I started in Jan 2018; you know this already how incredibly hard it is to get a upvote or comment. Most people are doing it for the money (read easy money) and the system rewards for spam (read volume, not quality) at least to some extent;
I got to be careful with the next comment here; but the reward system is very much pyramid like and it is rainbows and unicorn at the top and fairly dark and depressing at the bottom;
Don't get me wrong, I think this platform is a wonderful concept but it is so hard to keep it clean; just think of Facebook and Twitter in terms of content; there is still great content there, but man ...the junk you have to deal with! 4) Many people here are not writers (including me) they just suddenly found out writing pays, commenting pays! Bingo!
I personally stumbled into steemit following a youtuber who I follow regularly. I am here for the content. I am finding excellent content here. But we all must actively flight the junk.

PS. I will self up vote this comment, but is it the right thing to do?

7 years ago in #steemit by azircon (69)

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hanggggbeeee (67) 7 years ago (edited)

I got your points. Let me share u somethings

I dont know how hard it is now but when I joined in steemit. I also had a hard time. It was around 2 months. I got nothing. In that time, I tried to connect by commenting with someone same level, reputation with me. It would be easier than trying to make relationship with dolphin or whale right away in the first time. I didnt spam or beg anyone. I made good relationship with just commenting. Now when i get 60 reputation. Someones was same level with me before now also become minnow or dolphin. Network needs time to grow. U started in Jan 2018. Now just Feb. U should be patient a bit. 😉
I agree with u about it. That is why the first time is always hard with everyone. u need to strive to escape that dark part. Once u escape. You will be totally bright.
Facebook and instagram. Those are trash. In my opinion, They dont pay any. So they cant ask for quality content overthere. But with steemit. Steemit is giving us reward which is much more better than what we deserve. So we need to repay by being responsible with this platform. Dont ruin it with our greed. It is really hard to keep it clean. But not impossible if everyone against spam and abusing. We can upvote and downvote too.
This platform is so amazing because it is a great opportunity for everyone with every kind of ability. Not just writing. You can post photo with stepshot, video with dtube, streaming with dlive, singing with dsound. Of course, with any form, it must be quality. Not crap.

P.s: it is totally fine if u think your comment deserve a vote. ^^ I vote u too. For your points 😉

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azircon (69) 7 years ago

hanggggbeeee; thank you for the reply. I am totally patient with this platform. I am actually more interested in the content and technology that this platform offers than the money side of it. I mostly write about trading which I have been doing off and on for some time now as a hobby mostly.
I wish if I could design a filter about content, a proper human induced filter as opposed to a bot, then we can filter a whole lot of it.
By largest concern outside of the general degradation of the content by spam/poor content is the potential fight back from Facebook and Google/Youtube. When 10-20% of the YouTube content creators leave YouTube for whatever reason and move to Steemit with their viewer, that will hit their bottom-line directly. 20% of YouTube Ad revenue is a very large number. YouTube will do anything in their power to protect their interest. They will probably fail, but I bet they will try very hard.

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