You should have broken down the number of hours you worked on those stats and the total amount you were paid. I'm willing to wager you were more then compensated fairly for your work.
Do you really think the stats you were providing weren't being overpaid? Come on. Let's be real, you got here early and carved a niche out for yourself, good for you. You had luck, timing and some foresight on your side. You had a nice repeatable formula for easy money. You reaped some stellar rewards that far exceeded the actual value of your posts. Did you think the party would last forever? Get real!
$60 a post is still a great payout for using some scripts you wrote months ago. $5 a post would still be profitable. I hope you wrote scripts to automate it, it would have been foolish not to considering you must have some programmer chops to get at the data to begin with.
Put it on a cronjob and just be happy for anything you get. It should be free money for you at this point.
This whole post sounds like you are getting mad and throwing away your money printing machine because it only prints $5 bills now.
What is the Steemit.com minimum wage set at?
"What is the Steemit.com minimum wage set at?"
Zero.
it's not about being compensated fairly or i wouldn't be dirt poor and ready to leave too. the community spoke with their upvotes by the hundreds and 1 person decided that their voice is more important than everyone else who voted. i'm more interested in these dummy accounts i keep finding with zero posts, zero followers and zero followed that are having hundreds of thousands of dollars transferred to them and then transferred out of steemit. some have enormous steem power and don't appear to be adding anything at all in the way of content except snide comments making fun of people. my butt doesn't hurt, but if people don't wake up to the obvious corruption around here, Steemit's butt is going to do more than hurt. looking at your profile it seems you may be getting the shorter end of the stick too, unless you are just hiding it well. why defend the abusers?
please don't flag me for being honest. not that you would. i just never know.
I won't flag you for having an opinion. You make a lot of valid criticisms of problems in the system. At the end of the day I think it's rather foolish and butthurt of @masteryoda to stop. Even though the system has issues the system is still working in his favour at the moment.
I will be more than happy to pickup the slack. I'm already looking over his lists and figuring out what I have to modify in my data collection scripts to duplicate what he was doing. If I make one tenth of what he makes now it will still be profitable in the long run.
" i'm more interested in these dummy accounts i keep finding with zero posts, zero followers and zero followed that are having hundreds of thousands of dollars transferred to them and then transferred out of steemit."
If you look at who is voting for @masteryoda don't you find the exact same type of accounts? Isn't he being auto voted on by curation bots with large accounts from mining and witnessing? What you describe seems to be systemic and platform wide to me.
hope i didn't fly off the handle. this stuff is starting to get right up my nose. @masteryoda is obviously good at what he does. i think if i were he i might quit too.
i have only just started looking into these dummy accounts, so, i don't know how widespread it is. i am still looking, though.
i do know that i can't justify hanging out here for much longer and getting so little out of it.
i will miss some steemians, but my learning habit is suffering here.
All that said @masteryoda is free to make their own decision. I get that you are urging them to continue as do I. That said if for whatever reason Yoda wants to take a break it's at their volition. We'll miss you quite a lot. But don't ever think you owe us an obligation.
he's not griping about the damn payout. Simply pointing out that it was not exorbitant, but the downvote still happened.
A rose by any other name.
Are you forgetting that the downvotes also effect his reputation score on the site? It's a bullshit move by a dictator and I for one think he stayed in longer than most would, but whatever.
Calm down. You're not understanding how the reputation system works. I specifically mentioned this in one of my other comments. The rep on the account is not being threatened. Ned has a reputation score of 61 and Yoda has 71. Ned can't hurt Yoda's rep score. It is literally all about the payouts on this one.
I'm all for Yoda making a post to rally community support to combat these flags but this post seems shortsighted and butthurt. I have a feeling he will be back though.
Thanks for the clarification, as for the condescension, you can keep it. My opinion is just as valid as anyone else's and attempting to manage a response to a comment you made on someone else's post that was completely demeaning and rude is ridiculous.
"Thanks for the clarification, as for the condescension, you can keep it. My opinion is just as valid as anyone else's and attempting to manage a response to a comment you made on someone else's post that was completely demeaning and rude is ridiculous."
There was no condescension in what I wrote, grow some thicker skin.
It's funny that you would assert the validity of your opinion despite acknowledging that it was misinformed and then somehow feel my opinion was invalid and required managing.
As for being rude, you take the cake. You're the one swearing, labeling people dictators and spreading false information. I have both complimented and criticized Yoda with valid reasoning for both.
"Calm down" when exchanged between two adults, is highly condescending. "Butthurt" is definitely rude. You're arrogant. You approach this as if from some position of authority. And I swear when I want to. Grow up. Don't post rude shit if you don't expect some rude responses.
""Calm down" when exchanged between two adults, is highly condescending. "Butthurt" is definitely rude. You're arrogant. You approach this as if from some position of authority. And I swear when I want to. Grow up. Don't post rude shit if you don't expect some rude responses."
You were irate over something that wasn't true. Telling you to calm down was completely rational. I'll say it again now. You need to calm down man. Now you are getting all butthurt too.
You can swear all you want but when you do so and try to call others rude you're just being a hypocrite. Butthurt is a rather inoffensive word that I also couched with compliments. It was mild compared to your rudeness.
Grow some thicker skin before you start comment threads with swearing. You obviously can't handle what you're trying to dish out.
Seriously? #steemitabuse ? Wow, yeah, I'm the one with thin skin.
For the record, you didn't need to quote my entire comment, it's right above this one. LOL
"For the record, you didn't need to quote my entire comment, it's right above this one. LOL"
Since I am unable to respond directly to those comments in-thread I choose to supply the context.
"Seriously? #steemitabuse ? Wow, yeah, I'm the one with thin skin."
I have no clue what that is supposed to mean. Are you having some kind of issue with #steemitabuse now? I wasn't involved.