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RE: Steemvoter.com: Business Rescue Crowdfund
Just because I think steem is flawed (evidenced by them trying to fix it), doesn't mean my site has no value. I still think it is flawed (then the steemit account is still pulling out --powering down-- about $100k worth every week, it is a sign of the times). Yes, I was looking to profit by providing a service, when is that a bad thing? Well it didn't last long enough for me to profit... also true. Not sure what your issue is.
I can't speak for him, but I don't think @ausbitbank necessarily has an "issue" - but motivated by giving us a little transparency about the genus of the project. Many of us are "steem-evangelists" and have dedicated and donated much of our time, creativity and resources to build a solid foundation before making a profit. Good or bad, it's a leap of faith many of us have put in this platform. Frankly, I'm glad to learn more about it and I am aware of @thecryptodrive's dedication to Steemit.
Hopefully you two can work out a reasonable price or haggle a payment agreement so he can carry the torch and implement the changes he envisions. Sometimes it's simply a leap of faith.
I never said it has no value, I think its a neat tool and I've used it myself in the past. However when compared to all of the tools , voting bots and sites like @xeroc's streemian (all free) I don't believe it's worth paying $3000 up front for in its current state - especially with no income to speak of.
And yes, I was annoyed to see you claiming its all over, and never had any value - whilst your still trying to extract even more value from the system yourself.
We all like money, some of us are thinking long term and comments like that do nothing good for the community or public perception. Part of me thinks we would be better off putting that 3k towards something else, rather then handing it to someone with no faith in the future of steemit that plans to dump it on an already weak market.
Protocol level curation guilds are on the way , and open source voting bots already exist - This is simply a website that configures the user list for a votebot that may be irrelevant within months...
To be fair, there is a monetary aspect behind streemian.com (of course). Those are for one, limits that you can exceed after paying a fee (I am working on this currently) as well as premium features for very low money.
There is another aspect of it that is someone controversial and that is: Since I have voting power over my customers account, I could use that to upvote my own content and thus profit from my user base. Currently, streemian.com does not do that and before I plan to do this, I will ask people to either opt-in or opt-out of this particular revenue model.
More to come in the months ahead. Anyways, streemian.com is mature every week and becomes more and more robust as we speak. I am confident I can go out of private beta sometime soon (tm)