Great to see you being able to utilize your SP for upvotes again! Love it! Much good can be done with every little bit... like you said, people love to see the votes trickle in.
I really wish Steemit Inc would get their act together on ways to find quality content to curate so that efforts like this would not be required. But until then, you do what you gotta do right?
If I was to have one criticism, it would be an echo of what BeeYou said regarding the DLIVE/DTUBE requirement. I can appreciate trying to get people to stop utilizing Youtube, and coming to utilize the blockchain alternatives. But like @beeyou said, some of us prefer to write rather than put ourselves on video.
Of course it is your SP, and you support the content/creators/tags that you feel most reflect your own values. I'm totally down with that. I would just hope that in time you might examine the idea of expanding your bots to include some people who may be a bit.... camera shy.
Have a great one Geek! You are always appreciated!!!
Hi @mikepm74, another SOG member. :) I understand FTG's support to the Dtube/DLive community because you said it best, it is his SP and he should be able to use it to "support the content/creators/tags that you feel most reflect your own values".
I feel the disconnect with this platform is that it is increasingly becoming users (big or small) that have to "step up" and be the ones to use their stake to show support to others. Steemit Inc should be using their stake to support user retention, but there is none given (at least not obvious to me). It is the dapps and friendly whales that are using their SP to support others. I would think support would trickle down to users from owner/management, but it seems it is peer-to-peer support on here.
I think who controls the stake and how they acquired it plays a big roll in the problems with Steem's reward pool. People who see themselves as "investors" separate themselves from the content, and worry only about how to make their stake earn them more money. The obvious answer on that is vote selling, or self voting. So you have these big whales who only care about increasing their own stack, without any concern for what is going on closer to the surface.
The problem is, i is those of us who swim near the surface who really impact the price movement on STEEM as a cryptocurrency. If the entire platform were devoid of good content, and showed no signs of value, then how long would it take for the STEEM token to bleed to zero? Last time I checked, any stake multiplied by zero is still zero. So the Investment Whales need the rest of us... but to this point, few of them have realized that it would pay them in the long term to be quality curators.
Don't get me started on STInc's stake and the use it is or isn't put to.... I could write novels. hahhaa
Have a great one! Keep supporting each other, and the end result will be satisfying!
I agree! With time, comes experience. I always enjoy reading the thoughts of others with more experience on this platform than myself.