For those of you who stopped following the drama at SteemIt, things are becoming quite amusing.
The central feature of the SteemIt #1000DaysOfSteem promotion is a thing called #TheDiaryGame.
SteemItBlog promised to give rewards to everyone who participated in the game. People love free money; so the game has attracted about 400 entries a day.
Now for the funny part: The SteemIt curators are not organized enough to give out the rewards. I looked through posts using the game's hashtag. It looks like about a quarter of the entries didn't get the promised curation while accounts on the inner circle got multiple curation rewards.
The curators are playing reindeer games.
The people who didn't get their rewards are getting mad.
They have a game encouraging people to spew out low quality content and are getting people angry in the process.
The last post on the SteemIt blog is a complaint about how the number of entries is overwhelming.
I am sorry, but 400 entries a day is not overwhelming. All the curators have to do is look at the posts using the tag. They then need to set their vote weight so that the entries that followed the rules get an upvote.
Perhaps the curators realized that, while full diaries are often interesting, random diary posts are not.
Of course, one doesn't have to read the posts to curate. Simply checking that the posts followed the rules should be sufficient for the game.
Seriously, is anyone actually going to judge a "diary post?"
Should a curator judge a person because their day was boring. COVID19 days are quite boring.
Do you judge a person's diary because the diary doesn't have a compelling image?
Anyway, I think SteemIt's Diary Game is interesting because it provides a great of how not to run a competition on a blockchain.
Quite frankly, if someone had access to the raw data from the blockchain, I think the stats about the curation of this competition would be revealing on the way that centralized authorities like SteemIt judge people.
PS: I confess, I haven't figured out how to download raw data from the blockchain yet.
Getting raw data from the chain is a tough process! I haven't mastered it but you need to use some software I think.
It's sad but amusing that these things are happening on Steem. The people who are running things over there unfortunately know very little about the chain. They copy + pasted the content from the Hive fork to try and get back at some of the top stakeholders here and did some fumbling of that as well.
Unfortunate that many still believe in the space, I know some that are still trying to keep it afloat there but in my opinion it's a losing battle.