With HF21 coming up which will change the economy and incentivise curation we have officially decided to start curating!
Wohoo, after 2 long years of just upvoting the best asskissers in our discord which provided no value, no traffic and barely any content on their autovotes and most have powered everything down and left we have now decided to generously delegate some almost worthless SP which we did nothing to help maintain it's value to another account so that people who do care about this platform will hopefully help us get out of it with something in the end!
That's not all, we strongly believe that manual curation is key to encourage better posts and engagement, we just figured this out and have decided to step up and be some of the first that are truly altruistic on this platform! I know what you may think, we're just doing that to come out better after the HF and hoping the community will forget our past, but that's not it at all guys because, well, it's just, uhm, we didn't realize it in time okay? No one told us. We will start adding value to the platform now though because let's face it, we can't even sell our Steem at any reasonable price even if we wanted to. Also did you guys know they're planning to changing the rewards into 50/50? So there's no point for us to have our authors send us back the post rewards through exchanges and also there's something about a curve which may give us even more rewards if we're good at curating? But yeah of course we don't care about that this is for the good of the platform you guys!
Now let's bid bot this shit up so everyone knows we the good guys!
In all seriousness though, I'm glad the HF is starting to get people to change their ways, it hasn't been rocket science that altruism doesn't work and we need an economic system that encourages content discovery and those being good at it to get rewarded more. Just imagine though how many more users and how much better distributed stake we could've had if more of the bigger accounts had even attempted to curate or distribute to worthy authors, we would've easily had 2-5x more active accounts and been ready to blast off into the new bull run possibly in 2020 or whenever people realize the cancer facebook or golos in english is about to launch.
So to all those that endangered and didn't help retention through the past years at all because "others are earning so much more ROI than me", well, nothing really, most users will probably forget and not care later anyway so congratulations, you got away with it and have way more stake than those that tried. I guess Steem really is that strong that no matter how much of a hit the price takes, how much abuse goes on on the platform for several years, it doesn't take a lot for it to survive and keep on improving cause let's face it, it can't get much worse than what we got now anyway in terms of incentives to do what the chain was supposed to in the very beginning.
PS. Image courtesy of Anna-Louise on Pexels.com without our stupid logo on it.
I see your point. There were lots of things happening over there which I'm not going to get into.
But yeah, I get your point.
I'm hoping for improvement, and I was hoping they would get some support from doing the right things NOW.
Anyway, great rant.
We could play blame games, but at least their stake was working for some instead of totally going into the bidbots.
I like and respect you and have no desire to fight with you. Let's support a better future and NewSteem.
!dramatoken
Not trying to start a fight, there will be many switching it up now which is a good thing, but there literally are no consequences to what people have done while jeopardizing our chain so all I have is making sarcastic posts like these pointing things out. Wasn't just directed at aidsactly, I've seen many already change their ways in preparation for the HF. Which again, is a good thing, but some will remember even if that means nothing in the decentralized world and I'm fine with that.
I did get a bit triggered they just stole someone's photo tho, lol.
Well thanks captain hindsight, good thing you showed up just in time.
Just joking, and point taken, and thanks for the rant, we appreciate some good banter.
Yes, we changing things up it's been long overdue, but we aren't claiming to be making massive altruistic changes, apart from the curation delegation.
To address the elephant in the room, the photos are royalty free, and free to use for personal or commercial use, with no attribution is required.
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What I've been telling all the whales for 3 years is there are consequences... The price. He has 700k Steem at the same value as you and I do.
The idea they don't have any motive to fight abuse is dumb.
Anyway, better late than never... Understand the triggered! Have a good night
I meant no consequences to adsactly specifically compared to the others, they were the ones losing out on ROI by attempting to do "good".
Yea lol. STEEM has literally the dumbest stakeholders in the world. They think things have no consequences while the price is tanking, and so is the value of their investment. It's absolutely unbelievable.
"Hey, let's use our huge upvotes to allocate massive amounts of STEEM tokens to those powering down and dumping them on the market!"
Lol.
They think like traders. The goal is to amass stake.
Any place that money is actually earned understands the goal is to raise the price of the asset, not hold the most.
Oh so snarky. I appreciate great snark.
Yes, I botted the post up because I want people to see they are doing things differently now. :)
Can't fix the past and no it isn't meant to be altruistic. It's meant to help sustain the Steem economy. Which is a win for all if it sets an example.
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I trust you will do a good job curating, @whatsup.
Thank you. That is much appreciated.
I bought my steem a bit too soon, coulda had a lot more if I had waited a couple more months to buy. But I do got another bitcoin that Im cashing in for more rewards for the memehub platform.
I think the meme meritocracy that memehub is building will boost the appeal of steem to the average internet user, work as a solid onboarding mechanism providing an alternative to the crypto barrier for entry onto steem, and give the minnows who loves memes a way to start earning and building up their steem acct.
It appears to me that steem needs more projects that enables avg internet user access, as to then have a track that leads those uses to steem and the entire ecosystem. Watch our upcoming videos where I discuss our system design and how it uses this and other concepts.
Fool me once, ...........
fool me twice... can't get fooled again!
:P
What is the steem world coming to when the oldest circlejerks can no longer masturbate publicly?
Well actually they could have continued to do exactly what they were doing. We had about 3 weeks of conversations about how to move forward once they invited my input.
I think it says a lot that they made a choice, the stakeholder looked at all of my charts and graphs about the circle jerks and made a decision to change things.
I know you are being a sarcastic, but it wasn't the oldest circlejerk or even the best circle jerk many of those are still happening. :)
It wasn't even the most selfish use of stake.
It was an obvious circle jerk though... acknowledged. :)
Yeah, I welcome the change and it wasn't the worst by a fair way and, they did do something along the way. Is this #newsteem in action?
It is NewSteem in action!
Hello my friend @acidyo
I read your complete publication and it seems to me very interesting content..
I would like to say that I’m agree with you in what you are describing and why you are disappointed.
I congratulate you because you are taking an amazing decision, I’m sure and I strongly believe that manual curation is key to encourage better posts and engagement.
In this point you are very correct.. I always try to read and comment if I find out something interesting and also upvote with a 100% ... I’m trying to help to this amazing community of Steem but it is a little difficult for me because I don’t have enough SP to support more people here.. also I gave some people some Steem showing them my small support, that’s another form to help this community.
I have delegated more than 2k SP, I use auto bots and get some rewards every day. But for this I don’t have engagement... I have a job and that’s the reason I use bot a little. I Always try to let a value comment.
My job here on Steemit is writing about Meditation or sometimes about Psychology or Motivation.. And post something once a week..
I hope to see you in my next publication, feel free to visit my profile if you find out something interesting, well, feel like at home and let me a comment, you can criticize with a positive or negative comment to help those people who visit and read my content and comments as well..
Have a great time..!!
Yours, Edgar..!!
@edgarare1
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If you tag 'you' first it will make F U C K a discription instead of an action which I believe is more appropriate given your delightful rant =)
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They should just all undelegate from the other bid bots and delegate to ocd!
Lovely tags btw :^)
The only way I'm leaving is if Steem dies and I don't see that happening in the near future... I don't have irl friends and I just fill the void with discord steem chats and discord steem radio programs lol... that got sad real fast... please don't leave me alone.
They aren't delegating to any bidbots.
In fact they just created an account and added a huge amount of SP for curation related work.
Previously they had a blog that had gone a bit stale and some voting arrangements.
Everything is being upgraded and looked at and there is more to the story than the HF.
Now that's some refreshing real talk. To reciprocate this energy, I offer my drum cover of Bulls On Parade by Rage Against The Machine as a befitting backing track. Enjoy.
Holey macaroni.
This post was one hell of a roller coaster ride. 🎢
Yeah it's kind of a bummer that groups can do shit like that and 🐍 on by..
The world is not fair and sure you figured this by now but hell it helps to let a good rant out. 😤 I say this from experience.
Hopefully, the community will be more shrewd on the future.
I will add that I am confident with @whatsup at the helm that curation will be legit.
She already seems supportive of the @cringecoin project which is to be like the cringey sister of DRAMA.
Actually, I think you'll dig it when we get it going..so many cringe moments in chain.
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Awww stop squatting good coin names! :P
No dice 🎲!
But I'll give you a headstart on @ragecoin and @rekt-token. Need to score some ENG
Already snagged the @downvotedollars Steem account. ⬇️💸😊
@rekt-token to all Steem holders, 2x more if you attempted to curate.
I'm pre-mining @ragecoin lately.
I will add that I am confident with @whatsup at the helm that curation will be legit.
She already seems supportive of the @cringecoin project which is to be like the cringey sister of DRAMA which I think will add a bit more zest to Steem.
Actually, I think you'll dig it when we get it going..so many cringe moments on chain.
Praise the Newsteem and manual curation we are all now saved from our wicked past. I might just for the fuck of it start using bidbots heavily after the HF. If I do I’ll make sure to steal these tags they are a gold mine! 😂😂😂
Tfw STEEM is out of top 100 soon tm.
Let me kick up a fuss... 😎😎
Can't wait to see how long this lasts until the whales get bored of curating and delegate their stake to curation bots or the new-form bid bots. Because lets face it, some math guru somewhere is already doing the numbers for the highest ROI in the new economy and code that into a bot. It is the way of the world.
I am taking bets. Step on right up. How long till those who saw the light succumb to the darkness? 😬😬😬😬
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Of course, people figure out how to maximize their stake. Some of them will do exactly that. :)
I love adsactly. Theyre embodiment of what circle jerking is. When somone asks to give an example thats where i point towards. Ill be super surprised if they change much.
I dont think they know how.
Its in their blood.
Theyre like that part of steem with haejin and a few other orcas that everyone knows are shady but everyone tolerates and leaves alone.
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Only... They were being left alone... no one was bugging them at all.
Yet, they made a decision to do things differently.
In order to get from where they were to where they are headed I knew they were going to take some heat. I'm fine with that.
Let's see if people are smart enough to allow for change.
They are more then welcome to do so.... Problem is that they havent earned the least bit of trust from the community for the community to believe they will change their ways.
Time will tell ofc, seeing is believing, but so far we havent seen anything to believe that they can change. Thus the pessimism towards their announcement.
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Well the fact we are having this conversation does mean they have done somethings that people find notable enough to comment on.
They have absolutely done some things... it just takes time for people to notice.
Manual curation is best and it increase with good visibility of posts on steemit. Definitely UI of steemit plays very important role here. I have started manual curation when I joined the platform , but lost interest as most of the posts are in trending by bidbots and website is lagging too. Although @partiko some what played good role in mobile experience, there is still need a lot of improvement. Curation should not be feel like a great task here, it's should be so simple. So people spend more on steemit to go through content rather than only checking their post every minute to watch increasing rewards.
'Getting away with it' on a blockchain says more about the masochists than it does the sadists, imo.
We know who did what.
The sadists, at least, didn't cower in their holes.
They used the force of their convictions to act.
I will be greatly disappointed if this community just crawls back into their shells.
'The people destroying the earth have names, and addresses.'
Utah Phillips
The snark is strong with this one! ;)
You have
DRAMA!To view or trade
DRAMAgo to steem-engine.com.I don't know how this 50/50 curation will work out, but luckily for me I both write (not very high paying posts) and curate, should get the best of both worlds!!
Further on I hate bitbods, hopefully there will be less of that going on after HF21
Nice sarcasm in your enjoyable post!!
Wait what, no more bid bot and 100% manual curation?
I think that's what I just read but the snark is very thick here. :-)
When you try to pile on, but you don't actually understand the issues others had... So you just say a thing, but it isn't the right thing.... and you end up looking foolish. :)
There was no bidbot and I don't even know what you are trying to say about curation.
I will gladly accept the feedback from those who understand what was happening and want to talk about it, they earned the right to question things...
Seeing a pile of criticism and trying to jump on, but slightly missing.. is funny. Shhhh
You're 100% right. I don't understand the nuance of what's going on, but the idea of more manual curation does excite me. I wasn't trying to be critical of you or anyone else. I don't even know who you are, but I apologize if I offended you in some way.
Perhaps you could explain the nuance I am missing, or point me in the right direction.