#life

Whatever: If This Hardfork Fucks Me Over As A Content Producer...

NoNamesLeftToUse@nonameslefttouse (77)2630d

^{I'll quit producing content, curate as best as I can with my 26000 SP,}

and call it a day.

^{Easy money.}

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I Remember

^{The previous hard fork.}

Everyone was bitching:

Oh my god! Oh my god! The little fish! The new members! They won't be able to do anything without RC! This is an outrage!

But it was a perfect opportunity for everyone to say:

Well, I guess I better get out there and start voting up some noobs so they'll have enough RC to be able to contribute.

Who said that?

^{While everyone else was panicking and threatening to leave...}

Who said:

Does the success of a new member depend solely on Steemit Inc.?

All of you folks saying these new members won't be able to get anywhere; is that just a fancy way of saying you're not going to be out there helping?

If a new member spends their valuable RC on my blog, to say something important to me, they're getting a vote. That vote will lead to them having the ability to say more.

These people are only stuck at the bottom if we hold them there.

I noticed some of you out there who are unhappy with these changes have your SP placed in the hands of someone else.

Make up your minds. Do you want to be there for these people or do you just want say you're there for them while collecting a bit of money for doing nothing?

Your SP can and will help these people, so please use it wisely.

I said that.

^{Right here:}

I'm sorry.

^{I don't have the same short attention span so many on this planet seem to share.}

Already I'm seeing the panic set in again. The same words, all over again.

"The little guy!"

"The little guy!"

"The little guy!"

^{^{"But what about the little guy..."}}

"Okay so it was 75% but now you'll get 50%. Then there's that other 10% deduction on top of all this, the reward curve changed, plus I'm not going to change my ways and you'll never see a vote from me, so yeah, the little guy is taking a hit so let's panic and pretend to care about the little guy!"

They can hardfork the platform but they can't hardfork your brains.

We don't need a hardfork to solve some of the problems many content producers currently face.

Did thousands of people decide to delegate away their SP, effectively making their vote useless to the content producer who wants to earn? Yes.

Did much of that SP fall into the hands of a bidbot. Yes.

Does that mean thousands of potential votes were centralized into one paid vote? Yes.

But wouldn't thousands of potential votes placed on hundreds of posts lead to the success of more content producers? Yes.

So why did we do this to ourselves? Because you saw an advertisement on the trending page but didn't realize it was an advertisement because it was on the trending page, mistook the concept as popular opinion, got duped, someone made a metric shit ton of money, you were left with practically nothing, and you still don't know what hit you, even after one of those guys thought it was funny to tell everyone he sucks his own cock.

I lurk in the shadows.

^{I read your comments, check your wallets, I look to see if you're purchasing votes.}

Oh yeah you're putting on a fine show. Standing up for the little guy with words, potential SP either dumped on the market or delegated away for minute superficial profits from a system designed to place selling pressure on the token, paid votes on every post.

Can't vote for the little guy and as soon as they post you'll make sure to downvote their work into oblivion with your paid votes that boost you up nice and high above everyone else, while nobody pays attention to you or your work, as you dump last weeks endeavors down the drain.

"I paid for visibility!"

^{Says the silly man on the trending page with no comments under his work.}

Yes, visibility. I can clearly see how delusional you are along with a few other things that kind of make it look like you don't have much upstairs. Thank you for making it obvious. Makes my life so much easier.

Whatever, everyone.

^{With 26000 SP, I can't do much.}

Not long after the hardfork, the vote sellers will go all in. Doing and saying anything it takes, your money will be back in their hands, but only because you put it there.

They will promise you wealth beyond your wildest dreams. You will line up and say, "Here you go! Take my money! Make me famous! Please! I beg of you! I need to be popular! I don't care if I don't make any money! My money is your money!"

And because you made it worse than it ever was, it'll be worse than it ever was. Your wish, is their command.

Then we get to argue for another two years!

^Yay!

$5 will be the new $0. The value of the token will reflect that.

Just to post here, you will pay someone who doesn't own the place $5, voluntarily, because they convinced you that it would help and you didn't ask questions.

You will demand a higher portion of the reward pool as you give a higher portion of the reward pool to vote sellers who are paid to look away. You will not be able to figure out why nobody is voting for your post, even though you encourage and actually pay people to not vote for your post.

They will take their 50% curation reward you've paid for, so they don't have to curate, and they will earn the other 50%, for doing nothing, because you paid them to do nothing. Since many people will be duped into contributing to this future disaster, all those involved will find themselves unable to purchase "visibility" because everyone will blend right back into the crowd of others doing the very same thing. Nobody will notice, for two years.

You will still want my free vote, as you contribute to a system that gives a few people thousands of STEEM per day, so they can sell it, effectively lowering the value of my free vote, and giving yourself less in the long run, because you paid for it and wanted that to happen.

You will then blame everyone else and the platform for your mistakes, before leaving.

The rest of the people will leave. The community will die. All projects on the STEEM blockchain will no longer enjoy the benefits of the readily available and vibrant community anxious to try out new things. Developers will still pay the vote sellers a healthy price to advertise on the trending page, hoping someone might see it. Look at the page today, and you'll see very little engagement; expect that to get worse.

Developers will stop developing. Those who sold the votes will be the last ones standing. They will have nothing to show for it.

Or!

^{We can learn from our mistakes and build castles in the sky!}

Hooray!

Prove me wrong. I want to be wrong. I've never wanted to be more wrong in my life.

We've made mistakes, we can learn from mistakes. Change is the on the horizon, change brings new opportunities.

Freaking out does nothing. How are you standing up for the little guy, when you're busy scary the living shit out of them? Show them you're going to be there for them if standing up for them is your thing!

I'll carry on. Business as usual. I'll do my best and some of those days might be my worst but I don't care because tomorrow is a new one. Fuck it.

Have a nice day.

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Comments · 24

@minismallholding(75)· 2628d
Perhaps the hot page should be used for those getting the most interaction on their posts. That would be closer to the mark as a judgement of what is doing well. Or maybe it should be that for trending, and the bot ones in hot, seeing as it's the trending page that newcomers land on...

I should probably get some sleep, it's way past my bedtime, stop distracting me...

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@lennstar(66)· 2628d
Just stop paying authors. The author just has a vote right at the start of the post (without the <15min loss). No longer bitbots. People fighting over curating good stuff to earn.
@arcange(79)· 2629d
Congratulations @nonameslefttouse! Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following category:
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@drumoperator(67)· 2629d
"Here you go! Take my money! Make me famous! Please! I beg of you! I need to be popular! I don't care if I don't make any money! My money is your money!"

=

American record industry (1877-2019)

I work my ass off and take a massive percent loss to get my shit out there, lifetime. Forever. Cost of doing biz, I have been told, again lifetime. I have never made much money and have mostly destroyed my life for this stupid shit. I just presume people surrounding the release of creative content will always act in the least altruistic way possible and I find myself rarely surprised. If I'm gonna put 20-30 hours into something to post only to Steemit, which is already ridiculous, I'm probably gonna spend the money to promote it. It is too demoralizing otherwise.

I will absolutely stop using bots when there is a better way to organically build followers on this platform. I also look forward to my free unicorn.

Also: it is pretty badass how much engagement you get in the comments section. Encouraging even.
@nationall(56)· 2629d
Words in the heart
@lordbutterfly(80)· 2629d
LOL. No one gives a crap. STEEM is 60whateverish in MC and a reshufling of who gets how much doesnt mean much. Unless it gets seen by whales of crypto and they get super interested.. which wont happen..

Not much to see here. What you said in your first sentence. Just quit producing content and curate stuff to fill up boredom.

Honestly maybe thats better. Most of the content on Steem is complete garbage. Vast majority of it isnt worth the space on the chain. Maybe this leads to shit posters to stop posting their trash on chain and become content consumers instead of $$$ chasers.

I dunno, i still think 50/50 is retarded but i dont have the will to speak about it anymore.
@dreemit(73)· 2629d
I honestly just developed a bit of an indifference to the site politics, a defense mechanism that allowed me to stick around through it all. It was just too draining to keep up the fight, which I know is what caused your long breaks and totally understand. In your case you have extremely intelligent and insightful things to say in regards to all of it so not speaking up would have to be a lot harder for you than me. I took to just watching from the sidelines and only really interacting with the people I love here and cool newbies I'd meet from time to time. Obviously I also cashed out much of my steem, though it didn't really have to do with what was going on here, there were just a few financial hardships in the past year unfortunately. If this hardfork actually does change things for the better and the price rises and there's new excitement and an influx of people, well I built up my sp before, I can do it again.
@slobberchops(82)· 2630d
Hmm I'm one of the ones concerned about 'the little guy', but it's gonna happen regardless of what I say.. so fuck it.. bring it on. We will adapt and if the token goes to 7c again, then I'll just get some more.
@abitcoinskeptic(75)· 2630d
On thing I really like to do is reward everyone who writes a relevant or meaningful comment on my post with a 0.023 or so upvote. Right now that is around 20% vote for me. I'm worried the changes will make this a 45% vote for me. Whenever it gets above 30% I start getting really reluctant and guarded with my upvotes. It's not even about curation for those because they aren't posts.

We are definitely destroying this kind of SNS aspect to Steem.

But you do raise good points about being selfish, over-using bots and self-voting. I use bots a lot. I self-vote 1 time a day. I even have a few friends who I can rely on to vote for me and I do the same. I also like helping the little guys if I find sincere ones I see struggling. I'm more concerned about the combination of all these changes and forcing them all at the same time.

Actually, I don't mind switching to a curation-based system. I'm fairly active and devoted around here. I'll figure out how to enjoy the new stuff and get more curation. Actually, I probably waste 3 or 4 full votes a day just upvoting comments I like.
@enn0(52)· 2630d
People are never content with new ideas. Change is always a PITA, but it brings something refreshing, so I'm all for it!
@fullcoverbetting(74)· 2630d
I am really against the 50/50 split! And no it wont kill bidbots. It will make them even stronger. They still will have the biggest upvotes and the posts and will be getting a curation reward which blows our minds! They will just have to find a way to change the metrics so that an upvote still would give a potential Roi to their users! More people will delegate to the bots because they will give a much better ROI! Curation bots will be invented, where the bot will upvote the delegators once a day according to their delegation, raking in lots of curation rewards. Which they can pay out of divs!

I have been blogging for 18 months here! And besides one exception I still have to be discovered by whales or orcas! This could be due to the quality of my posts. No idea. But Hf21 with the 50/50 split will not guarantee that I will get upvotes from them! Probably not. It will just cost me around 33% of my post earning I am earning now! Which is not even close to what some account do earn with selling their votes or divs they get from delegation! So, for me personally the HF21 will hurt the growth of my account! I have been all over the blockchain. Writing genuine comments, interacting and so on! So I did try and maybe failed! Will HF21 change my behavior? Probably not! I will just continue like I am doing now! Only with smaller rewards! I can understand that some big accounts do want to protect their investments but then they just have to be honest about it! I did experiment with bots around a year ago, now I do regret that I was trying to grow the hard way! My account would have been further if I would have continued with it! Now I am only using the ocdb service. As a vehicle to gain some extra steem! Just my 2 cents!

Cheers, Peter
@anneke(70)· 2630d
Am I a terrible 'head in the sand' type of person because I understand nothing about this whole crypto business or hard fork or whatever and just post and hope I get some votes and maybe make a few dollars?
@karinxxl(76)· 2630d
'hooooooold your horses cowboy!!'

I am curious how this HF will play out, and if your scenario will be the one that will take over, or that it will help in this end....for now..it aint looking too sunny :(
@isnochys(67)· 2630d
@sinlg(66)· 2630d
I’m the little guy. Still hanging.

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@thekitchenfairy(77)· 2630d
There are people who care for new accounts (after hf20 fiasco) actually. I started offering a little delegation (as i dont have much on my wallet) here and there for newbies, so they can at least post once per day. Hf20 sucked but we survived, many did power down, left, and bitched as you said, but many also stayed, and many new ones signed up.

What am not looking forward is the downvote problem which hf21 hopefully can tame it down, but can it, really?

There are people who truly use their high sp for weird shit. We leave a comment, we get downvoted. And the comment itself actually has nothing to do with anything bad, but that the original post one commented was using bidbot. That is scarying newbies who know nothing. It even scared me 🤣

It will be interesting to see hf21 and the aftermath.

I am traveling in 2 weeks, if the date is set during my travels, my witness server will be a little late to the party, god dammitt, lol
@galenkp(84)· 2630d
A nice raw piece on HF21 and other things here.

I’m not the most savvy steem person around but what I see is a lot of greed and selfishness which is typical of human nature. I see new people struggle whilst certain others skim the cream from the top. I see great content earn nothing and dribbly runny stinky shit gain huge rewards somehow. I see adults behaving like retards and I see what could be a highly successful thing doings its best to fail. It’s a huge shame. And yet here we are, still here.

I post every day, sometimes with great effort and sometimes with a little less than great effort and take what I can from it...No, not necessarily financial reward because my posts are not well-noticed and nor do they gain strong rewards. I gain the satisfaction of stretching my mind, of bringing what’s in my noggin out into the world and the reward that comes through being satisfied with my efforts.

I use the OCDB thing to try and supplement my meagre financial rewards in the hope that someday steem may repay me back in some manner financially. I have also invested fiat when I had a little spare so...

I hope this thing amounts to something and HF21 can rectify some of the issues however it’s people who need to change as well and I’m not sure if that is too much to ask.

Thanks for writing your post and my apologies for such a long reply.

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@ryivhnn(73)· 2630d

I lurk in the shadows.

I read your comments, check your wallets, I look to see if you're purchasing votes.

I don't know whether to be terrified or comforted by this XD fortunately I can be both.

Is it just bidbots you're mad about or is this extending to things like voting trails and community bots too?

I won't upvote posts if there's bidbots I recognise on the list. Last year I cleared out repeat offenders, haven't had to do that this year yet as most of my follows seem to have had enough and left.
@joshman(74)· 2630d
I don't know how it's going to shake out, but everyone seems to think they can predict human behavior and what the response will be. I will continue to do what I've been doing, try to identify the gross behavior and make sure my vote doesn't reward it or reward people that reward it. I'm not perfect though, I'm learning more and more every day the ways people try to extract value from other people on here. I gave my witness votes an enema recently. Perfectly good content passes through my feed I don't upvote. If I see an open bidbot upvote your stuff I'm unfollowing you. I'm trying to create my own little personal bubble of honest actors. If everybody did the same, I think it would dry up demand for a lot of these scammers and exploiters.
@marcusantoniu26(68)· 2630d
Are these changes a done deal? Will they happen for sure? if that is the case it looks like your predictions may become true
@dera123(66)· 2630d
I really like what you wrote in your post. I saw so many of these "they are stealing my author rewards and reward the worthless curators with it"-posts so it's good to see a post like yours

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@smasssh(67)· 2630d
"I paid for visibility!" Says the silly man on the trending page with no comments under his work.

Spot on!
@enjoywithtroy(71)· 2630d
I am calm yes. But with they would not have fucked with a good thing. Over time it gets messed with more and more and eventually either needs REAL fixing or abandonment. I have diversified into Weku as it is a more pleasant environment and what Steemit used to be. Seems almost like dating two women. LOL
@bashadow(70)· 2630d
It is going to some interesting times ahead. It is nice to see a few more people beginning to recognize that the 50/50 split is less than that when you take into account the SPS, which initially everyone was going to pay for, including the witnesses, but it looks like the witnesses got a reprieve on losing 10% of their reward pool, go figure hooray for the bought and paid for witnesses. But I could have read that wrong, on their "explanation" post.