The Steemit Battle Between the Whales and Minnows
I love Steemit, but ...
Is there a problem with distribution? Or are those minnows just butthurt?
Let's assume that those people that are complaining are just sore losers, people that are just not realistic, their posts are just no good, their comments are crap and they keep upvoting the wrong posts ...
is @stellabelle one of those people? No, obviously not ... she has the highest reputation score of everybody!
yet ... she's complaining too; from this post
and this is the post she's refering to; Steemocracy: Jeff Berwick Interviews Dan & Ned and yes, those cartoons are hilarious!
By now the post got 212 votes and $29.76 SD
And whether or not that's fair is not really the issue ... a lot of people perceive it as unfair, and that's an issue!
More and more people are getting demotivated, they feel left on their own ... they keep hearing they need to get better at making posts, but there's not even a faq-page, let alone a proper video tutorial ...
OW, no wait! There's actually a really great faq-page;
FAQ page ~ editable version
There's a direct link to the public word doc, so anybody can edit it ...
@shenanigator made a massive effort there, and she didn't do it alone, there's really a large group of people behind it, all contributing the best they can ...
lets' see; 77 votes and $157 SD
that's just sad ...
And then we see this;
Steemit Tutorial 1: Creating An Account on Steemit ~ 28 votes and $0.25 SD
Steemit Tutorial 2: Steemit Account Dashboard Overview ~ 17 votes and $0.15 SD
Steemit Tutorial 3: Creating Our First Ever Basic Post ~ 14 votes and $0.33 SD
Steemit Tutorial 4: Reading, Writing and Voting On Comments ~ 26 votes and $0.38 SD
That are very basic, simple little tutorials video, which is exactly what people need. ... but ... they're impossible to be found!
But then this happens;
Steemit Tutorial 5: Voting, Power, Weighting, Spying and Managing
66 votes and $581 SD (Dan voted for this!)
So ... tutorial 1-2-3-4 are worthless crap, but tutorial 5 is solid gold ?!?
How does that work?
Just butthurt, right?
https://steemle.com/charts.php?charts=posts
I don't care about the price of $SD going down, but the amount of posts and replies going down ... that's not good!
We need more dolphins, thousands of them! And FAST!
I'm not complaining about the rewards for my own posts, I've been here for exactly 14 days and so far I think I'm doing really good; my rewards and followers, all going up, up and up ... I'm happy :)
Don't worry about my wallet, but do worry about my user experience, because right now ... it could be better!
A little note to each and every one of my 66 followers. You're precious to me, you're the best followers, I always have the best followers, nobody has followers like me ... this is going to be Yuge and I love you all !!
We're going to make Steemit great again!
Now listen to me ... you have to go to this post;
https://steemit.com/steemocracy/@tuck-fheman/steemocracy-a-steem-comic-or-volume-11-or-jeff-berwick-interviews-dan-and-ned
First of ... it's hilarious, I promise, you will laugh your ass of, believe me!
but ... it's not getting any attention of the whales, so we're going to use this post to revolt!
Go to the post, laugh, upvote and leave a comment ... we need to make that post rank to show our power ... #minnowsunite!
ok, that's it ... don't forget to upvote and happy steeming!
lulz, I appreciate the thought and the props. :)
I figured, if I try to promote my own posts, that's fishy, but by promoting your post ... we might actually succeed, you know ...
I seriously do not understand how your Steemocracy one with the Dollar Vigilante smoking 3 cigarettes did not get more whale upvotes, ESPECIALLY AFTER 453 VOTED FOR MINE THAT CONTAINED YOURS....... This is nuts!!!!! I certainly don't understand this insanity.......it's just sooooo freaking odd......it contains everything i thought would be popular and well voted for, especially because it contains whales themselves.......what are your theories?
it's still very soon in the process, we need more dolphins; thousands of them, that's what's at the core of the problem
I don't think the system itself is flawed, it's just still early in the process and the people complaining is just 1 of those hurdles the whales will have to deal with
to me the issue right now, is that dan and ned are not politicians, they don't understand how important perception is ... there's a growing discontent
while dan and ned are the ones giving everybody this idea that as long you write enough, do the layout and add some pictures ... you can make money ... they created the unrealistic expections of so many people
people are emotional; they were promised something and dan and ned didn't deliver ... at least, that's how they perceive it
and whether or not that's justified is irrelevant; they need to do something ... let it be purely symbolic, because looking at the stats; the middle ground is growing, so slowly but surely this problem is in fact being solved ... be it way too slow and people are losing patience
what I suggest; everybody gets 100 Steem Power (maybe from the @null accocunt )
and with everybody I mean; as much as possible, as long bad players don't get rewarded
and whether or not that actually fix it mathematically doesn't matter ... it's a gesture, it's symbolic
but the least they should do is acknowledge the problem ... people are losing faith
but ok, let's see what that promote button does ... you never know that fixes it, time will tell
I never expected a high payout for that comic. Going in I knew how it would be perceived and I frankly didn't care, it made me laugh and I knew it would make many others outside the whale pool laugh. That was the only "payment" I needed.
I've made plenty off Steemit post and could never make another dime here and be perfectly happy. If anything I was over-compensated for many of my post/comments and with the number of post I make it all averages out just fine for me.
On the BitShares forum in the past, I was doing this same kind of stuff and received nothing for it, so I'm giddy to receive anything more than nothing here. Besides, when the other decentralized platforms go online I'm sure my comics that don't play well here to the whales will play much better over there judging by the number of BTC tips I received for my Tone Vays comic. ;)
The decentralized future is bright my friend! The more options content creators have the better it will be for all of us. If something doesn't go over well on one, we simply bring it to another venue and see how it does there.
But I will admit, if I were a comic, I would get more of a kick from bombing with a polygamy joke in Utah versus getting big laughs in Vegas. ;)
sure, I totally get your sentiment, every time I get a vote, which is usually worth just 0.0001 ... I really get excited anyway, it shows somebody likes what I'm doing, and that's enough :D
I made that 1 rant-comment in your post and then I made this post, but before that I was more annoyed with the complainers themselves than anything else ...
in other words; it's all your fault, I was just fine until I saw your post, that's were it all went wrong ;-)
keep up the good work, I'm looking forward to the next one
Apparently they get it now, I see a new option (that I've yet to try) where we can "boost" a payout or something. I'm trying to find something on it currently, but it looks like a step in the right direction (I hope)! :)
just for you, buddy;
https://steemit.com/promoted/@luminousvisions/my-dear-followers-001
but what I'm trying to say is this; people's perception is more important than how the system works, because from a technical point of view there's in fact no problem, people just have to make better posts :D
it took some time for you, but by now you got $100, and your next post will probably get traction much faster and more $$ ... so, it's working ... you're getting there, right?
I answered your last question here ... https://steemit.com/steemocracy/@tuck-fheman/steemocracy-a-steem-comic-or-volume-11-or-jeff-berwick-interviews-dan-and-ned#@tuck-fheman/re-stellabelle-re-tuck-fheman-steemocracy-a-steem-comic-or-volume-11-or-jeff-berwick-interviews-dan-and-ned-20160830t021337424z
How can you not understand lol. Popular users = better chance of curation reward = voting bots + whales only concentrating on this.
by the way ... watch the other hand, he's actually smoking 6 cigarettes!
Luckily, I am not a Whale nor a minnow,
Just the Little Plankton.
🙊
cheers :)
nobody making any remarks about my trump imitation? I thought that was funny ... no?
not obvious or not funny?
It was obvious to me,and quite amusing.
for a second I imagined myself; laughing at my own joke ... all alone ... that just looked so sad
so, thanks, I feel a lot better now!
Steemit Needs You
To Become A Dolphin
easier said than done ...
Easier now than when I did.
There is definitely a major inbalance in voting power on Steemit right now. I'm hoping though that as more dolphins and whales are created in the months ahead that things will change. I've had plenty of articles get a lot of votes but almost no money. It really stinks when that happens.
time will tell, but right now it's skewed ...