#dpoll

Are Investors Looking At What Happens On STEEM?

Glen Albrethsen@glenalbrethsen (71)2489d

Are Investors Looking At What Happens On STEEM?

Early last month I wrote a post wondering whether or not what we did on the social media side of STEEM—good, bad or indifferent—really had any influence over the typical investor looking for ROI, or if there were other factors that would drive their decisions.

I've decided it would be a good idea to open it up to those of you in the community who would care to weigh in on this subject, because I think it's important to see what everyone is truly thinking.

I say that, because over the last two years it has been posited in one form or another that things like bid bots (now more of a moot point than before), reward pool abuse, circle voting, flag wars or just even "downvoting for no particular reason," plus whatever other inanity that one might take exception to—all keep investors away.

To do this, I guess I'm thinking of the investor that has some resource large enough that they could power up at least a couple hundred thousand STEEM if they so desired. But they're not necessarily looking to use the platform or invest a lot of time in into, too.

So, not so much a typical user trying to earn rewards through blogging, etc., but one who's looking to get some decent ROI, however they might do that.

Currently, as far as I know, if you're not going after author rewards, the main choices to earn are curation, delegation leasing, and the 'interest' that all stake accrues thanks to the percentage coming from inflation.

So, that's the type of individual I'm thinking of when the term investor is used. They might have an account, and technically that makes them a STEEM user, but in reality, they're not here to post, comment, or even manually curate, become part of the community, etc. They want somewhere to park some funds where they will get decent to awesome return.

To me, that's different than the typical user, where I would say many absolutely do care about what goes on here, the direction the platform and the community are taking, and how we ultimately interact with one another. And while an investor might have an eye on how many are using the platform and how they feel about it, I wonder if that's what they are really looking at first, second, third, fourth, etc.

So, what do you think? You can select as many options as you like. If you feel inclined to provide a little more along with your choices, please do so. Especially if you choose other.

I know there are at least a few who have problems with dpoll for some reason (technical or otherwise), so don't feel like you need to go there to participate. Through dpoll or however you accessed this post is fine. I'd rather have the input and the participation if y'all are reading this post and are inclined to speak your mind.

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In my opinion, investors are most certainly looking at and care about:

Vote buying/selling

Reward pool abuse

Circle voting

Flag wars

Downvoting 'just because'

Governance

Inflation

Decentralization

How we treat one another generally

What Steemit Inc. does

How the dApps are performing

The number of users

How much and ease of ROI

Whether there's marketing and how good it is

The direction the platform is headed, if in any

What the platform is, does, or how it's defined

Other (please specify)

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Comments · 20

@bluerobo(70)· 2486d
Voted for
- Downvoting 'just because'
- Decentralization
- What Steemit Inc. does
- The number of users
@arcange(79)· 2488d
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@vimukthi(76)· 2488d
Voted for
- Flag wars
- Downvoting 'just because'
- Governance
- Inflation
- How we treat one another generally
- What Steemit Inc. does
- How the dApps are performing
- How much and ease of ROI
- Whether there's marketing and how good it is
- The direction the platform is headed, if in any
!trdo
@c0ff33a(76)· 2489d
Voted for
- Governance
- Inflation
- Decentralization
- How the dApps are performing
- The number of users
- How much and ease of ROI
- Whether there's marketing and how good it is
- The direction the platform is headed, if in any
- What the platform is, does, or how it's defined
@felix.herrmann(71)· 2489d
Voted for
- Inflation
- What Steemit Inc. does
- How the dApps are performing
- The number of users
- Whether there's marketing and how good it is
Internet personalities (Influencers) who use steem or steem based dapps on a weekly basis.
@scorer(58)· 2489d
Voted for
- What Steemit Inc. does
- How the dApps are performing
- The number of users
- How much and ease of ROI
- The direction the platform is headed, if in any
- What the platform is, does, or how it's defined
- Price
I use the same criteria for other projects and compare them.
@akdx(70)· 2489d
Voted for
- Reward pool abuse
@erica005(63)· 2489d
Voted for
- What Steemit Inc. does
- How much and ease of ROI
- Whether there's marketing and how good it is
@phgnomo(65)· 2489d
Here is how investor could expect as passive return:

Curating - the expected return here is around 6%-8%

Lending - return variable, but I see it floating between 8%-13% yearly

The catch: inflation. Today there is a inflation rate of 8.59%.

This means the real passive ROI would be between -2.59%-4.41, Wich it isn't really attractive, because you can easily find low-risk investment 8% yearly return investments inside and outside cripto space.

Interesting here is that curation functions as a way to fight inflation.

The other way of having a positive ROI is the the token price appreciation, Wich can only happen if there is demand increase, but as we can see in some statistics, this isn't happening (no increase in new users/blockchain activities)

So, yeah. Steem is a bad investment. High risk, low return.
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@minismallholding(75)· 2489d
That's actually pretty thought provoking. I'd never thought of looking at this purely from an investment point of view and you could be right, it doesn't really matter what people are bickering about on the platform, so much as what kind of ROI there is. I guess if I didn't want to interact on here, then my approaches would be leasing or setting up an autovoter for authors who'd give a good curation return. Other than that, I'd want to know if it's a viable coin with enough longevity and demand. The fact that you can earn from your investment should be plus. Can you earn like that from many other coins?
@fernandosoder(67)· 2489d
Voted for
- Vote buying/selling
- Reward pool abuse
- Circle voting
- Inflation
- Decentralization
- What Steemit Inc. does
- How the dApps are performing
- The number of users
- Whether there's marketing and how good it is
- The direction the platform is headed, if in any
- What the platform is, does, or how it's defined
@wakeupkitty(72)· 2489d
Voted for
- Downvoting 'just because'
@bashadow(70)· 2489d
- Other (please specify)
If I was an outside investor, I would be looking very hard at the apparent internal collusion/good ole by networking going on at Steem.inc, and the lack of concern that has been shown toward upholding and enforcing their own White Paper. An investor needs to feel there is trust in the company and in it's standards, I don't think Steem.inc or steemit.inc have shown themselves to be very trustworthy.

But that is just my view, my perception of Steem and steemit. I am not an investor, and am not sure what they would look at trust wise from a company.
@xplosive(72)· 2489d
Voted for
- The number of users
- Other (please specify)
Are there any investors left? The number of the daily active users is decreasing (dropping/falling) since months.
@abbak7(74)· 2489d
Voted for
- What Steemit Inc. does
- The number of users
- Whether there's marketing and how good it is
- The direction the platform is headed, if in any
@d-zero(71)· 2489d
Voted for
- Flag wars
- Downvoting 'just because'
- Governance
- Inflation
- How we treat one another generally
- What Steemit Inc. does
- How the dApps are performing
- The number of users
- How much and ease of ROI
- The direction the platform is headed, if in any
!trdo
@anthonyadavisii(73)· 2489d
Voted for
- What the platform is, does, or how it's defined
- Other (please specify)
What the platform is, does, or how it's defined. This is pretty much the catch 22 but to be more specific:
1. Utility of the platform: Is it useful?
2. Fault Tolerance / Redundancy: Is it reliable? Can I count on it to stay online?
3. Susceptibility to cyber attacks (i.e DDoS, MITM, Brute Force): Is it secure and resistant to exploitation?
4. Quality of curation: If this is isn't working, it will be especially evident on the trending page. We've had our ups and downs for sure!
5. Integrity of the Rewards: Are we good stewards of our inflation?
There are many other aspects we could evaluate Steem such as the community, the people, but I just wanted to point out a few important ones I would consider on a technical level and a bit on a social level.

Thanks for the thought provoking poll!
@jeffjagoe(77)· 2489d
Voted for
- Governance
- Inflation
- The number of users
- How much and ease of ROI
- The direction the platform is headed, if in any
@bryan-imhoff(69)· 2489d
I’ve honestly never understood the desire to cater to investors, it seems a “cart before the horse” kind of approach. Actual users should be the main focus as the value of any network grows in relation to its audience and userbase. So that being said, I think dApp performance and number of users would be the core metrics any serious investor would be most interested in. By serious I guess I mean a venture capitalist with a multi year horizon who is looking for appreciation in the token value. The opposite is the more “vulture capitalist” types who seek to acquire tokens via methods that inherently devalue them.