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RE: How do people feel about those who are gaming Steemit?
There are definetly some flaws in the design of steemit but we need to remember its still an emerging concept and hopefully these sorts of things will be quashed one day. my theory is the old adage if you cant beat em' join em.
I feel as long as your posting quality content you'll still be able to make an impression its probably just going to take longer.
just remember to do you and forget about what others are doing. when you focus on you and what youre doing youll make progress. other peoples shit just distracts you from yo goals.
good luck
The problem is that by definition Steemit has monetized quality content. The catch is that no matter how good the content is, if nobody upvotes it, it doesn't earn the author a single cent. This is why so many people are resorting to offering an incentive on top of the curation reward, to attract upvotes to their content. What the whales assume however, is that they deserve to make hundreds of dollars per post just because they have a large Steem Power balance. That balance however, has nothing to do with the quality of the content being put out. Jeff Berwick made a fortune within days of joining Steemit, because he had an existing ready made follower base who valued his content. For others starting out however it's not that easy. Perhaps we should cut the minnows some slack. If their content is good they will get whale upvote, otherwise they will get pennies. That is the fact of this ecosystem, and it ain't going to change any time soon.
All that Michael is whining about here is that he's not one of the people gaming the system, yet. He has a long history of doing this everywhere else with phony accounts, follow-4-follow, tweet-for-tweet, etc. And he's just posturing to justify doing it himself soon. Watch... it will happen soon.