Another Dumb Story About When I Was a Minnow
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0.000 HBDAnother Dumb Story About When I Was a Minnow
<html> <h1>I told myself I wasn't going to write about Steem today. (I lied)</h1> <p><br></p> <p>After having a really enjoyable conversation with a fellow Steemian. I started reflecting on how I went about being a minnow and why I was terrible at it.</p> <p>I got here August, 2016 the mood was ecstatic. Back then I could start at <strong>New</strong> and look at all of the posts in a few hours. I literally read or at least glanced at every post on SteemIt. Back then short posts were frowned upon as were most controversial subjects. There were no memes and even short or funny posts were questionable. Steemcleaners did an excellent job of keeping the site pretty sanitary. It was also boring and dry with only a handful of people who felt free to challenge ideas or say anything negative at all. The trending page posts earned $5000 or more regularly, while minnows often didn't earn a penny even with many votes.</p> <p><br> On the other hand it was also very interesting and I learned a lot from the posts about Crypto, Freedom and of course SteemIt. We didn't have the ability to resteem, the reward pool was curved to direct the rewards towards those who received the highest weighted votes. Even back then was little manual curation as SteemVoter was already up and running. I've mentioned several times now that I made 95 posts that didn't earn a thing. (Some of them. deserved exactly that, but a lot of them were pretty good) Many more posts made a few pennies to a dollar.<br> <br> We didn't have bidbots yet, and like the current minnows, we got frustrated with the voting bots, I made some snarky posts, and trolled the whales. It didn't do any good.</p> <h3>On a personal note: I would like to acknowledge that I think it would be smart for some of the larger stakeholders to use their stake to build the community, but it isn't a moral requirement.</h3> <p><br></p> <p>While I think it would be good for the economy if we had more stakeholders curating and spreading the steem around - that wasn't happening before or after the bidbots. The rewards just went to a small group of people who mostly only upvote each other and friends and family.</p> <p>I am strongly opposed to putting the curve back in the reward pool, however, if it happens I will accept it and learn how to work in the new environment. </p> <p><br></p> <h2>The greatest equalizer for those who say unpopular things and those who have gone unnoticed is the bidbots.</h2> <p>Call me names, accuse me of being whatever, I am on the side of the platform! I believe in Steem and my actions show that whether you agree with my position or not.<br> <br> I support the stakeholders in owning and using their stake even when I don't like how they use it.</p> <p>I want minnows to have the ability to be seen and discovered, but I also want them to understand it isn't an easy path and it isn't likely to get easier. This isn't a free money machine.</p> <p>When the promotion tab was released I had a vision of a time when money bought votes and that the highest bidder would get the votes, maybe that is where we are headed, but making up arbitrary rules about what people can do with their stake doesn't change that, it only changes how it is achieved.</p> <p>I came in here trying to change this system instead of learning how it works and giving it a try.</p> <p>No matter what, I don't believe that content and current fiscal policy are what brings value to Steem. Stakeholders, bring the value. If we get investors it will be because of traffic or technology, not because we have the best darn content on the Internet. There is not a shortage of great content on the Internet.</p> <p>In my opinion we have the best group of new users ever and it is reflected in their content and in the comments. I am seeing the biggest jump in quality yet. Give things some time to sort out, I think we are on the right track.<br> <br> To the Minnows, YOU WILL LIKELY NOT ATTRACT WHALES, build an audience. <br> </p> <p>@whatsup</p> </html>
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