RE: What's Going Wrong With Steemit
I agree with many of the points you make but we shouldn't forget that steem is the only (to my knowledge) crypto which you can get for free, from the "generosity" of others. Of course them being generous to you can depend on many factors, like doing some work for them, writting great content or simply being their best buddy irl. Which reminds me, the exact same applies to real life. :D
So you might call it greed but the "greedy" will just say they upvote their crappy kitten videos only because they protect their investment. Now, you can make counter arguments that no, upvoting other people is better for their investment for XX reasons but in the end it is what it is. They can even counterargue that saying they HODL their earnings and hence they do good to the platform by helping the price go up.. And this is actually an argument that does hold some merit... Well, at least nobody is dieing here XD
True, the monetization system is not perfect and I am not claiming it is.
But imo, for the average joe is quite good, possibly the best you can find. Many of the people making money here (small or big) wouldn't make a cent if they tried any other internet money making method. Here you can find a whale, leave a 5 minute well thought comment and chances are you will make 1-2 $ for nothing. Or you can take your stories or art and post them here and make some nice extra income. Today it's easier than ever to make money on steemit. Steemstem, curie, utopian-io, d.tube, steemhunt, d.live and so many other groups are essentially giving out money for free, as long as you give 10 minutes of your life to actually interact with them instead of just leech. Let's not even forget @greek-trail, true it only gives pennies, but let's be honest.. Most posts on steemit don't even deserve those, since 90 % of the content on the platform is selfies, plagied or even incomprehensible (I am often guilty of that too!) :D
Will you make a living, let alone become a millionaire? Probably no, regardless of the quality of your content. Although hundreds of nigerians beg to differ, for them steemit has become a true life-changer ;) As for me, steemit has been a blessing. The kind of content I like to post here would be impossible to be monetized any other way, I have tried.
Of course, this is my opinion, based on 10+ years experience of making money online as a blogger, freelancer, affiliate marketter and occasionally, full on spammer :)
To elaborate a bit more since I have work to do and I am trying to find an excuse to procrastinate.
IMO, the main problem with steem's monetization, is that the average joe (like me) can potentially make more money that they would do on, for example, youtube. But, for someone truly talented it will be very difficult, probably impossible, to actually stand out here and become a star. So for normal people, despite its flaws steemit is the best place to make money online. For people who have the potential to reach the sky ( or think they have) they'd better look for another platform.
P.S. : somebody got to play the devil's advocate
First of all i really enjoy long comments like this one :P The primary reason as i mentioned writing this post is a bunch of others i read this week with the final one being @tkappa and i said let's write! As far as it concerns me and my profile-account i literally have no problems and regards so it wasn't a post to put it simply of me crying about myself about my current statue ( to may it clear i don't say that you said something like that).
I literally see so many people that have this issues and as steemit gets more popular more and more dumbasses come along to take advantage of others. The reference of greed and wars i mentioned in the beginning was exactly to state just like you stated too that it happens in our real-lives and real lives societies, it's a trait we humans have. Also i agree that it's one of the best ways to may money and completely free of charge. I though to continue writing about the good things but i would be way to long of a post and i thought to write about it tomorrow mor ein depth.
The only issue i have and that is personal is that when i see something which i believe it has full potential of being way bigger and it still isn't because of many factors, in this case the once i mentioned, it makes me sad. There are things and solutions to these issues that could have been done or found if people were more organized that would made the platform way bigger that it is. A couple of them we have discussed in the meet ups.
Also, i really consider @greek-trail a big deal. To me these pennies matter a lot, as well as the person behind it and i didn't mention it because it's a small community limited to Greeks and each country supposedly have it's own ( some of them are better than us others are way way worst). I tried to mention a couple that anyone can join and check out.
Finally, ( i ended up writing a big one too :P ) i don't consider you the average joey and you know too that you aren't. You have made way too many quality posts and i get it for sometimes especially when you post each day to upload a picture or a meme but the average joey nowadays are the ones that do this constantly. Also you made a second account for that particular reason and you stated that you didn't want to take advantage of some people that upvote every post you made. That not only shows that you are thinking the others but the platform too. I don't believe there is any of us that made a post that somehow believed it's way underrated ( i included myself to that) but somehow we can balance it. the newbies can't though .
Anyway i still believe that there are ways and if we get organized a bit more for the sake of the platform and ofc us we can cast aside those dumbasses that pollute the platform!
i hope i didn't forgot something :P
Yeah, I totally feel your motives and I understand you are not yet another complainer who complains just because he hasn't become a millionaire from shitposting memes on steemit. After all, the fact that you haven't cashed out a single dime speaks for itself. But as you said I too have seen a ton of posts complaining lately about the current situation, and I guess the more the steem price falls the more complaining comments we will get.
But...BUT! It gets tiring after a point seeing people complaining. People complaining about the whales.. complaining why steem hadn't reached 100$, complains about this and that.. As a curator for a group that I used to be in (and as you know the curators for that group were actually making less money than the people that received the votes) people complaining why out of their 10 posts we missed one, blatant plagiarizers crying for not getting a vote or why we reported them to steemcleaners or whatever..
You know what I rarely see here? (I am not talking about you) People offering to help instead of just take. People delegating some of their steem power to the groups that vote them. Or even a simple a thank you. Heck, I was called an asshole in a comment here for making a thank you post today. Wtf ?
"The only issue i have and that is personal is that when i see something which i believe it has full potential of being way bigger and it still isn't because of many factors, in this case the once i mentioned, it makes me sad."
That's true to an extent by it applies to the rest of the world. There are tons of talented people on other platforms that will never be discovered. Meanwhile mediocre people get rich because they know a guy or have the connections or have big boobs and a tight ass... well until the communist utopia becomes a reality (probably never, thank god) the same applies to steemit although to a bigger extent. All you can do is work hard and if you do chances are you will be rewarded, sooner or later.
"Finally, ( i ended up writing a big one too :P ) i don't consider you the average joey and you know too that you aren't."
Oh yes I am! I have no special talents, although I d like to think I am a jack of all trades :D I am sure most people here can write as good if not better "quality posts" if they put the time I put on my "good" posts.
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if we get organized a bit"
Dont wait for the we. Most people as you said are greedy. Ask yourself what can I do? Go to a group you like and offer your help. Tell them I can do xx do you want me in your team?. Delegate some steempower to a group or person you think are good for the platform (@acidyo @ steemstem and @curie are the top 3 that come to my mind). What else.. I don't know... Even something simple like sharing all your posts and posts by others you like on other social media like Facebook! Imagine, if everybody did that steemit's traffic (and price) would explode. But almost nobody does even that simple thing.. most people just complain and expect money to rain..
Rant off :*
I hope I didn't forget something too 😂
I guess this comment counts as complaining. Shit!
hahaha in the meantime yesterday after some comments in the post i checked the price of steem
and in general other cryptos :P. i literally had no clue, i expected something like 2$ in both steem and sbd but well living in the era of 0.07 everything that is more than this sounds good to me :p
I have given it a lot of though concerning the organization and the communities. The delegation is sure a great idea but it's a bit far for me as i don't have too much ( now i think at 100% it's worth around 15-17 cent) and i want to spent it to the people i regularly do. if i had 4xtimes what i have probably i would delegate some.
I am glad you understand my logic and i totally get what you are saying with the complainers :P Still i want to try and change this platform and bring it to an Utopian lvl (not communist :P fuck them :p ) something different and way way better than the generic rule of life isn't fair and beyond greed to the extend i can. Once again now that i have a lot of free time :p i will sit my ass down and think of something that might help the community and the platform and when i accomplish that i will let you know ( i hope i will think of something :P )
I wonder why I keep landing on greek-trail posts. Haha.
I love how you put it. This is why I like sites like Steemit and another one because I don't need to do my own blog hosting and all that. It could be better but my AdSense is fckd up and dead so I do other stuff instead. 😅
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