Hey everyone!
Haven't done any #asksteemit posts in a long time. On Reddit the r/askreddit was one of my most favorite subreddits as the discussions were amazing and anyone in the world could take part in and share their experiences and knowledge about anything and everything and the users would upvote depending on quality.
It truly is amazing to now be on a platform where that same activity can be rewarded with actual value through votes and incentivize the growth of even more quality. We are still at the very early stages of the platform and it reminds me a lot of how Reddit was in the beginning when the userbase was smaller and most discussions revolved around Reddit itself and its development.
As you may have noticed there are many apps springing up to life lately such as @dtube, @dsound, @dlive and many more even though we haven't even implemented SMT's yet which will let anyone more easily incentivize and monetize their own platforms through them as well. There will literally be no limits to what you will be able to do with SMT's and curating just for content will probably become a fraction of what people will do with their voting power. This is also a reason why I think the current curation algorithm should remain as it is, even though vote selling and buying has been one of the first major effects from it I doubt it will be the last. I know many users don't appreciate that aspect of the platform and assosiate it with abuse but I like to compare it to the early days of Bitcoin, where the innovative blockchain technology was not yet clear to many and obviously was abused by shady people and businesses first.
The good will in the end outweigh the bad and people have started to finally realize the invention that is now blockchain and all the advantages that will bring us in the future.
So what are you looking forward to do with your voting power in the future, Steemians? What sort of services and functions do you expect to arise with SMT's and other?
I was thinking about a project for free lancer graphic designer, where you can submit a prtfolio and other can hire you based on you reputation and how well was your previous work. All will work under a blockchain and rewards will be in SMT. The main idea is to let new designers get to have some jobs to earn some tokens and build a designers community to make all the market grow and have a place where its easy to contact with a person who's willing to do what you need and with other users backup :)
Hmmm, that sounds a helluva lot like crafty.work. You might want to check this project out. It's an ICO and I have no idea how trustworthy they are, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but it exists. Freelancers are rewarded with tokens and a blockchain-based reputation lookup system.
Never heard of it, I will totally check it out, and thanks for the tip. It sounds a lot like what I have in mind lol, maybe I could star working there :)
Crafty sounded really... meh, when I looked at them when I saw someone shilling it. There's already someone on steemit making a jobs board kind of thing, forgot the name of it.
Hmmm, there are also plenty of people on Steemit promoting Kryptonia. There's also jobs there for SuperiorCoin.
I saw the shilling you mentioned. @originalworks is/was actually hosting a contest for crafty's campaign.
If you remember the name of this thing you mention, please tell me! I'm interested in it.
I remember something about steemj, for jobs rewarded on Steam, but I never join and I don't know if it's still working. Im gonna look for what you told me on Steemit. Thanks for the advice mate
steemgigs?
Im looking forward to use my steem power to help those who are really in need. My steem will mostly go to charity in underdeveloped countries and other poor and homeless people around my own community. After that I'm going to use my voting power to help the minnows so that they can contribute further. And finally all I want is to travel, I would like to travel all the places I have in mind and enjoy my life to the fullest. Thank you.
i love your response @fivefiveeleven, you didn't try to impress as some would love to.
well, for me, what i plan doing with my future voting power are;
i would love to get a big house for my mother-in-law. she is such a great and lovely woman, she was there for me when my folks didn't even consider me to be their own
Secondly, i would help potential steemians especially in community, i have started talking to lots of them especially those who couldn't help themselves in school. i have introduced steemit to ten people already and seven have joined already while the remaining three will jump on board by next week.
Thirdly, i have a goal to send 50 children to primary school whose parents couldn’t afford them good education
Fourthly, i will drill a bore hole in my home town so they can have access to good water supply which in turn will reduce malaria and other diseases
Hi @acidyo
I'll try to be as honest as a can, this is the truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God.
It's quite simple for me:
I'll help this wonderful community grow: this am already doing with my 15SP delegated to me as a newbie.
I'll help myself grow : This is the reason am acquiring steem power in the first place ,...am not doing it because i like numbers.
I'll help the needy : this should be number 2... but then, how can i help people if i cannot help myself here. I believe when someone takes freely from steemit that person should also be willing to give freely. At this point nothing will be able to stop me from helping people that are truly in need.
It's such a simple yet not as common as an attitude that you could guess to find here. So praiseworthy. Godspeed for your journey, @mhizsophie !
Thank you for your kind words. I'll surely do my best.
wow wow wow.............great question........................
Excellent! As @destrudo said, people don't admit most of the time that they're using Steemit for partly selfish reasons. While I want to make Steemit be a very special and pretty community, I also want to do it because it's my community in a certain sense. It's like wanting to clean your street because that way you're more satisfied at the sight, the health benefits and what it gives the community.
In a sense, helping others is also for "selfish" reasons, since you act to feel satisfaction by feeling like you helped others. This doesn't help explain why someone would sacrifice their well-being for others. Perhaps peace of mind is more satisfying than death by fatigue. Got a bit too philosophical here. Great points you make, a bit inspiring, even.
You make a lot of sense @cryptosharon ... Your philosophy is perfect.
Thank you :)
@mhizsophie, I want the power to design amazing experiences for myself and the people I love. Right after that, I have dreams about how to redesign the whole world. The more money I have, the more I can influence the causes I care most about: justice, equality and the sustainability of our planet.
wow! beautiful... You have a lot of wonderful plans @dhamtex
It's not going to be easy though!
Looking forward to this new world you have in mind
I wish you all the best ...
For me it will be charity. @surpassinggoogle is one of my role model and you are also one of my steemit role models. What you guys do with your steem power is basically what I will do with mine which is to help others grow. I will also use it to support ongoing steemit projects and will probably start up my own project as well. Of what benefit will steem power be to me if I don't use it to put a smioe on the faces of others who are below me?
curation curation curation...let's make the world a better place with our steem Powers.
Exactly. I think the only valid choice with SP is either use it for yourself, sell it or use it to promote the parts you love about your community. I don't have much SP right now, so even though I do keep voting on stuff I love, when it grows, my votes will help give some views to the greater creators. I don't think I'd use it to vote on myself, since by that time I'm sure I'll have followers with bigger votes than mine.
Hello, Acidyo. I kind of agree with your observation about bid bots. It's something a bit of a lamentable need for beginners who don't have any earnings and don't know how to push themselves out there. Sometimes they can't even afford bid bots and sometimes may see them as something negative. This leads to their great content being unseen. Many eventually leave Steemit thinking that this is a platform where good content is not rewarded.
My vision for the far future when my SP is worth more than $0.014 per vote is to help promote great content. I've seen that many people like to reward their commenters or the participants of their contests. I wish to do a job similar to @qurator, @dropahead and others by seeking great content, or delegating this task to others, to promote not content by those who belong to a certain community, or content by those who pay, but a variety of top quality works that would best represent this diverse community of creators.
I may sound like a hopeless dreamer, but I think this can be achieved and we can improve the trending section where the opposite can be seen sometimes: sometimes you look at the face of Steemit and see posts about drama, effortless posts and things that nobody really wants to see. These are pushed to the front by people with a lot of voting power. This is their freedom. I don't condemn them or call them evil. It's their right, and I wish that in the future, it will be my right to promote the best side of the blockchain.
Hey @acidyo! What I would do with my SP is help newbies in the vegan community. I want to be able to support groups that do something good for this planet, and not eating animal products is a very good thing =). I just created a discord channel called "Vegans of Steemit" in the hope to unite as many vegans as possible. There are already a whole bunch of members (newbies and also established bloggers), and I hope that we can help each other grow, maybe with a voting trail. Obviously more SP would help.
As for other SMT's, I'd expect to be able to buy services and goods with them. If I'm not mistaken that will be possible with appics
Honestly, I'm not an anarcho-capitalist idealist about Blockchain. I don't think it's going to usher in an anarchist utopia of consensus voluntaryism rainbows. And I'm kinda glad for that.
The reason I'm here is much more mundane: I like the idea of micro-payments for content creation that can maybe actually support people without advertising. I follow a number of active YouTube creators and the degree to which their fates are controlled by the slightest whim of a tweak in an advertising algorithm somewhere is truly frightening. Most of them would be completely wiped out without Patreon, which acts as a subsidy for YouTube's terribleness.
And YouTube is one of the best around in terms of actually giving content creators a financial cut. It's kinda sad. :-)
I want to be able to support the content creators I support in a simple, low-cost, low-friction way that cuts advertisers out of the equation entirely.
And hey, if I can make some money myself along the way with random blogs where I rant about things, I'll take it!
Helping newbies on the platform should be top priority. Make them shine in the darkness of the new section.
I also wish the steemit site becomes easier to navigate for newbies with time.
Hardforks are coming and probably a revamp or two. That's also why busy.org was created in part. There's a lot to do lol. This project is still starting and very raw. I want it to be the future already! I want to see its evolution.
I can't wait for SMT's and to see what spurs from it.
They will all be based off of steem correct kind of like bitshares is where they have a bunch of subtokens under them you buy with bitshares ?
As fro projects I kind of want to see something peer to peer but contract based so the loan has to be repaid that is going to be a tricky one though.
many of the people here who have been given powers and level and standards from which they can help anyone but they selfishly choose to not to help anyone or upvote and ignore even the good and real people who spend time reading the post and commenting and sharing.i am glad you are not like that and you are helping people.
if i get the voting power I'd obviously make a use of it and upvote those who spend time trying to earn here and are hard working and real. I'll help anyone who needs it and i won't keep it to myself. ofcourse it will help me grow but I'd want others to grow with me as well cause its a social media to earn and social means together. thanks
Sure. From people like you @acidyo, quite a lot of us have benefitted, via upvotes, interactions (with your followers) and a lot more.
And I believe with time, we too (newbies) would get to the level you are now.
I think it would be best to reciprocate such gesture to upcoming and incoming newbies.
Where leaders encourage younger ones. I believe with that, we would have a robust platform.
Steemit is a great platform for us who live in undeveloped country.. without any investment we earn and learn here,before I didn’t know about any cryptocurrency but after discovering steemit I learn many things..even i did my first traveling by money I earn on steemit,I’m glad that I discover steemit...after I would like to help people to my community because they need help..
As someone who also lives in an underdeveloped country and has been struggling to economically survive in recent years, Steemit, as you say, has been a blessing. I'm very very glad I met this site through people who recommended it to me. Props to my friend who almost pulled me by the hair to make me join.
Seeing my recent growth, I'm sure that Steemit will bring great benefits to me, my family and my fellow country-people. Props to you for your dedication and your generosity!
I didn’t knew reddit is like steemit where the users could vote. I always thought that it was like a search engine haha found out a new thing.
Steemit is a great platform for the helping,needy and those who wants to make a living. So its the duty of the people with power to try and upvote the most genuine of comments and posts cause they need it and its a big deal for them.
By holding the same thought,my upvote is not worth much now but when it is I’d want to help the people ,those who actually needs it and upvote the genuine comments and posts cause steemit is like a social media where we get paid so powers are given to be used and like others.so thats what ill do.
If I will get steemit I would live to help all the new users specially from developing countries as they are the people who really needs to come up and they deserve to earn make their lives better then I would live to help woman for woman impowerment and also children education..I expect everyone who has power to help to help such people coz your help can change someone life and can bring happiness,joy and smiles on their face!!!
I hope everything I wished will happen and I have seen many steemian who is doing great job making such people post visible to support..
Thats a good question @aciydo
I'm involved in three major projects atm.
Community building with my Ohana @steemitfamilyph and with @promo-mentors headed by @futurethinker
Promoting Steem through schools with the creation of a Steemit Academy where we are tapping teachers and student leaders to use Steem as an educational tool and as a means to introduce blockchain technology and Cryptocurrency to young kids of 11-16 years old so that they understand its power and it's potential. We all know that the blockchain technology will be mainstream. The banksters can stop it as much as people wanted the stop radio, Television and the internet become mainstream and the norm.
Lastly I have set up a @giftkindph account to separate it from my personal one that will be the Steem arm of our organization who for the past 11 years has been organizing school supplies donations to marginalized communities. 3 years ago we adopted a school in Zambales, Philippines called Banawen Primary school. This school is run to educate the children of an indigenous tribes called Aeta's. Created on 2007 it never had any graduates till we adopted it and last year we were so proud to have the 1st 6 children graduate Elementary school and continue studying highschool.
All there projects are being helped by both @steemitfamilyph and the @promo-mentors.
All my efforts are being done to increase my SP. The more SP and reputation I acquire the bigger the chance that these programs I am committed to will flourish. If I had a large enough SP and by some miracle reach whale status. What i would like to do is make them self reliant that they can create unique and good posts without fear that it will not do well because my vote will be there to make a difference.
I would like the @giftinkindph to be transferred to the hands of the Aeta's maybe even create my own Banawen coin SMT to further streamline donations through a gifteconomy concept.
Those are my dreams and that is why I am working so hard to get more SP and become stronger.
If i get the voting power or steem power
1:i will help those in needs cause there are many needy people here.
2:i will love to host challenges and reward people cause steemit is a platform for opportunities and that’s what we are here for.
3:i will support all the people who have supported me and been an inspiration to me like you and many others.
4:i will make the best use of my power that will create a good environment for everyone here cause that’s what we are here for in steemit.
Like they say”with great power comes great responsibilities “
If I had a good voting power I would be Upvoting good posts.
This is what the real purpose of Steemit is and this is how we could flourish.
vote world peace into existence
I'm using my sp to take a trip to Missouri and film episodes of Hots or Shots with @papapepper @winstonwolfe @sykochica & @giftedgaia
How do you use SP as resources to travel?
He buys bustickets with upvotes. :P
Looking forward to the opportunity to film an episode with you 😉
LMAO, well, I'm sure I could actually, for realsies, get him a bus driver here in Venezuela who would accept upvotes as payment. One $10 vote would give 3.75 SBD, which is around 12 USD, which is a minimum monthly salary and a half here. So he could probably get a full week of trips around the country in a bus with only one $10 vote, quality trips! Maybe shared.
Power down...sell it.
Which I don't recommend honestly, but for this first few trips for Hots or Shots I need to cover my overhead.
Wooo. I don't have enough to power down lol. For short-term, it's awesome. For long-term, you're killing your future. But the purpose of money is ultimately for our benefit. If we're going to die a boring death in a boring place with tons of money, I'd rather live a bit poorer but happier.
Apparently, by self-voting :-)
Wasn't really what the question was about, the self-vote now makes it look more like advertisement..
Well voting power is directly related to sp, so I thought it was relevant.
Plus I don't get the chance to visit your posts often enough so it was also my way of saying hey.
As for the personal vote....you are crazy popular, need to get your attention 😜
I try and go through all comments. ^^
cure all disease.
nice post..
thanks for sharing..
Even though I dont have much now, I intend to gradually build up in order to be able to curate good contents generally as well as have a base to assist newbies on the platform; especially those I will be bringing on to theplatform.
I would like to become @officialfuzzy and build a community and help people across the world with my SP.
Because of him I know it is really possible.
Firstly - I hope to see a platform that is whole more and fun for posting and viewing posts etc... just like steemit and busy but better - busy becomes better and better but it still isn't nearly good enough.
I hope to see a network like udemy, where people will upload quality tutorials in series for free and be rewarded by upvotes, without the 7 days annoying limit. That would be a great advance to the steem usage.
vote vote vote and vote.
What I'm looking forward to do with your Steem Power in the future?
Answer:
I'm in it for the long run, Steem Power is still undervalued, we are only at the beginning of the game.
How do you hodl Steem Power? Not delegating it? Or do you just not power down?
Get a bucket that doesn't leak and pour your steem power in there. Sometimes it rains and sometimes there's a drought but it fills up over time if you let it.
Oh noes! We'll have to create @bucketbot to catch delegation leaks.
I'd like to manipulate foreign elections to advance my own country's agenda.
Lol, get in line behind all the other guys.
If I earn enough, I want to travel around the world. Fly through the heavens using ethereal money; how rad is that?
I expect that other social media plartforms like youtube and the rest will begin to adapt the blockchain and reward their users. I expect a truly decentralized system. And my Voting power will as usual used to curate on quality contents, i know that there will be lots of it when renowned people embrace steemit after the launch of SMT
Make a Legion of Doom consisting of dope artists, emcees, producers, etc.
In steemit without steem power nobody can survive. Steem power is the life of steemit
My steem power is going up day by day. Hopefully one day my each upvote will be worth of 10$
I will definitely increase my steem power. It will make my account a stable one.
good post thanks @acidyo
I hope this could be a platform that can help those who are in a natural disaster or war, my wife and I plan to use steemit results to help those with joint disorders caused by nerves, trauma and so on. With this medium we would like to invite everyone to participate even if it is only 1 cent, but now our priority is to get deeper into this platform
Acute injury, or inflammation-based diseases?
When I hear thay SMT's will have no confinements to what ought to be conceivable with it, I simply do not understand what's in store even... like really, I do not understand how they'll be used on existing stages and what kinda headways they will pass on to us
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Are you in charge of dlive
I am going to vote all the content WHICH CAN CHANGE THE WORLD !!!
Which can help people in any manner !!
which can change lives for good.
I am going to delegate my power to all those who are trying to make this world a better placee!!!
Everyone is putting efforts and time here, I know, but only those, who have the ability to change lives through their words and talent, only they deserve upvotes, according to me !!!
So this is what I am gonna do :D
#####Thanks for sharing i will done upvote I always see your post. And follow you####
I'am pretty new in the Steemit universe, so I dont think, I get the whole scope of what I can do with it. So I guess for now I will keep it where it is and just use the sites, I'am interested in. I like the approach of steemit so I am really interested where all this goes.
My aim for now is to lift people up with my steempower. Like a couple of whales and dolphins here, to help those whose quality posts don't get the required attention it deserves and to also help charity. Steemit is the best platform to give to charity because it dose not actually take anything from you. It just takes a heart the sympathizes with the less privileged.
I really like this post, I can not do this, so I can just take a look at the picture and read how people express themselves about this amazing place.Thanks for sharing this with us @ acidyo
I always wait for your next post @ acidyo
because your post is always a motivation for me. I will always be your loyal followers in every post you @ acidyo
for the moment, i will keep my SP as my reputation is low. but as time passes and i also gloom in the steemit towards high reputation then I intend to help the newbies as in which stage i am presently in.
discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance the aim of argument or of discussion should not be victory but progress. discussion is always better than argument because an argument is to find who is right and a discussion is to find what is right...
stay blessed and thanks for sharing keep it up broo......
Kerja bagus..walau pun menarik..saya perlu yang lebih menarik lagi..oke
I will use some of it to help those in need of me and make this world a better
for them.
I agree that things should be kept the same. When I get enough steem power I am going to power that down and buy a solid silver cannon.
Thanks for sharing i will done upvote I always see your post. And follow you
nice
Hey me, I hope to curate good contents from minnows to encourage them cos I know the huddles of being a minnow.