Now that I'm no longer selling my votes or using Steem Engine I find myself with a lot of extra voting power. Simply comment on this post and I'll upvote you. I'm getting tired of upvoting myself.
I'm actually more interested in making it easier for everyone on Steemit to find quality content and curate it. I'd like to create a platform where resteems funnel all the curation to the account that resteemed. That way we can incentivize professional curation.
Imagine if anyone would make money here without posting anything; all resteems. Users who targeted the exact right content for their viewers would get rewarded.
Right now curation is pretty much reserved for whales and other accounts with very high stake. We need to lower the bar and let everyone find quality content.
Interesting! Did it pay out? I mean apart from self voting? I think smartscreen offers 85% + curation, but their upvote service didnt live up to their claims...
Hey @edicted, you can find one (some) projects or communities, or even individual accounts you'd like to support. Either through auto-voting their content, if you trust them not posting low quality stuff or too often (although you can put a daily limit on the number of votes for a single account), or by delegating to them.
Selling votes isn't that bad. It's just lazy. You're basically paying a bot to upvote for you. Just upvote yourself. You'll get more money out of it and you won't be supporting a mechanic that's completely opposed to proof-of-brain.
There are only two reasons I can think of that justify selling votes:
You're busy and don't have time to spend on Steemit.
Someone has engaged you in a flag war and you want to receive SBD directly and instantly.
My @smartsteem account is still set up to sell votes, but it won't sell any votes unless I'm at 100% voting power. This seems reasonable as well.
Lol i don't post enough or comment enough to upvote myself. I'm only allocating like 5 or sometimes 10% of my voting power to bots incase i see a cool post worth upvoting. Its not that it really matters to me since the curation rewards are pretty shite too! I just thought it would be better than letting it go to waste each day
Sounds like #1 to me. Bots exist for a reason. The platform needs to evolve against the weaknesses of decentralization. It's not really up to users to play nice. It's up to devs to incentivize correct action and punish bad actors.
For example. Why are people buying votes? Because the trending tab is hot garbage. Fix the trending tab fix the bot problem.
Also, there is nothing stopping a developer from coming around and decentralizing vote buying/selling. If every account could sell their vote directly this would create a race to the bottom where bots could no longer take a cut. This would discourage people from making and updating the bots in the first place.
I've seen quite a few people echo these sentiments and i completely agree with you. The current system is pretty much a greed fest and doesn't really welcome new users. There is very little trickle down to encourage users to want to grow organically and like many systems the world over the ones benefitting from it the most see no reason to change that
It's true "they" don't have much reason to change, but someone like me does. It's really up to the minnow developers to make the whales cry. And by cry I mean sacrifice short term gains for long term gains. This kind of development will still make the whales filthy rich... which is kind of why I don't understand why they won't be part of the solution.
The truly amazing thing about Steem and other blockchains is that small time developers can come around and really shake things up. This was not possible before in previous systems.
where do you sell your votes at?
@smartsteem
how has the experience been? what's the rate of gain for selling your votes?
thanks for the vote btw, upvoted you, though my vote is not worth a lot...
we should make an own simple curation pool where only high quality posts are voted... 20 people.. each one 3-4 votes a week... others jumping on it...
I'm actually more interested in making it easier for everyone on Steemit to find quality content and curate it. I'd like to create a platform where resteems funnel all the curation to the account that resteemed. That way we can incentivize professional curation.
Imagine if anyone would make money here without posting anything; all resteems. Users who targeted the exact right content for their viewers would get rewarded.
Right now curation is pretty much reserved for whales and other accounts with very high stake. We need to lower the bar and let everyone find quality content.
sounds good.. I would be in...
Interesting! Did it pay out? I mean apart from self voting? I think smartscreen offers 85% + curation, but their upvote service didnt live up to their claims...
Uahaha, that's not a bad problem to have. 😝
Checkout my soccer contests if you want some of that voting power sent back to you in SBD without self voting.
Omg!!! Are you for real???
Hey @edicted, you can find one (some) projects or communities, or even individual accounts you'd like to support. Either through auto-voting their content, if you trust them not posting low quality stuff or too often (although you can put a daily limit on the number of votes for a single account), or by delegating to them.
Wow, people like you do exist :D <3 Can you upvote me?
Lol
Well dear @edicted, thanks in advance for upvoting this one. I appreciate the motivation :)
https://steemit.com/writing/@omnimacedonian/the-weird-reason-i-m-locked-to-my-city
What was the problem with selling your votes though I’m actually keen to hear your reasoning
Selling votes isn't that bad. It's just lazy. You're basically paying a bot to upvote for you. Just upvote yourself. You'll get more money out of it and you won't be supporting a mechanic that's completely opposed to proof-of-brain.
There are only two reasons I can think of that justify selling votes:
You're busy and don't have time to spend on Steemit.
Someone has engaged you in a flag war and you want to receive SBD directly and instantly.
My @smartsteem account is still set up to sell votes, but it won't sell any votes unless I'm at 100% voting power. This seems reasonable as well.
Lol i don't post enough or comment enough to upvote myself. I'm only allocating like 5 or sometimes 10% of my voting power to bots incase i see a cool post worth upvoting. Its not that it really matters to me since the curation rewards are pretty shite too! I just thought it would be better than letting it go to waste each day
Sounds like #1 to me. Bots exist for a reason. The platform needs to evolve against the weaknesses of decentralization. It's not really up to users to play nice. It's up to devs to incentivize correct action and punish bad actors.
For example. Why are people buying votes? Because the trending tab is hot garbage. Fix the trending tab fix the bot problem.
Also, there is nothing stopping a developer from coming around and decentralizing vote buying/selling. If every account could sell their vote directly this would create a race to the bottom where bots could no longer take a cut. This would discourage people from making and updating the bots in the first place.
I've seen quite a few people echo these sentiments and i completely agree with you. The current system is pretty much a greed fest and doesn't really welcome new users. There is very little trickle down to encourage users to want to grow organically and like many systems the world over the ones benefitting from it the most see no reason to change that
It's true "they" don't have much reason to change, but someone like me does. It's really up to the minnow developers to make the whales cry. And by cry I mean sacrifice short term gains for long term gains. This kind of development will still make the whales filthy rich... which is kind of why I don't understand why they won't be part of the solution.
The truly amazing thing about Steem and other blockchains is that small time developers can come around and really shake things up. This was not possible before in previous systems.