If I was a whale and hadn't been supporting the #dolphinschool 100%, I'd beach myself in shame after reading this!
The vast majority of users, rather than creating true community and building projects that will create true wealth among them and a circle of supporters, they "invest" in the biggest accounts.
The ideal solution here is a balance:
- Support high payout content you have actually read, as mentioned by @rockmandown, and BELIEVE in, and that is posted by a user who supports the community growth - be selective with who you follow!
- Support low payout content that you BELIEVE in and that shows the potential value of the user as a future asset of the community and it's growth. No matter the value of the payout...
DON'T VOTE FOR CONTENT THAT YOU WOULDN'T BE PREPARED TO RESTEEM, AND THAT DOESN'T SUPPORT YOUR PRINCIPLES, INTERESTS & VIEWPOINTS!
These new accounts start with such restricted SP that they cannot complete the assignments for #Dolphinschoolwithout trouble. (two votes, two resteems, and a post on their own blog) when these are completed, some accounts don't have enough bandwidth to comment and upvote other students, even minimally.>
I can offer the following guidance here, based on my recent investigation:
- The bandwidth usage per user can be viewed at steemd.com/@ yourusername
- I am of the opinion that keeping your usage below 65536 bytes is the optimum
- Bandwidth usage for posts is 1 bit per character excluding spaces, e.g. a post of 2,000 characters uses approx 2kb of your bandwidth
- Editing a live post will use the total bandwidth of the edited post, not just the editing
- Bandwidth usage decreases daily based on transactions older than 7 days.
- If you store your images off Steemit, on Postimage for example, no bandwidth is used
Thank you @steemgoblin for your holistic support of the true Steemit community, and @markrmorrisjr for the brilliant #dolphinschool!
Do not bank on curation rewards. Voting is not a way to make money. Period. Go here https://steemviz.com/pendingpayouts look at any account you want, NO ONE MAKES THAT MUCH ON UPVOTES ANYWAY! Focus on building audience and producing good content.
Apologies, I shouldn't have used the word 'payout', I was assuming that high value payouts indicate users with the bigger accounts, which is wrong. What I was trying to suggest is voting with discernment to ensure support for all levels of user, as opposed to merely voting on posts that are are well written and interesting. Personally, I would vote on all your posts (and a few other users who have high value accounts) because I enjoy and appreciate the quality and content, but I realise now that I need to consciously spread my vote power to support users with smaller accounts whose posts I also enjoy and appreciate, so that they can grow in the community.
Perhaps multi emoji 'Likes' could be employed as seen on FB. One could then Upvote and/or Invest in the Post/Comment.
No, only vote on quality content, otherwise, you just divvy up the prize pool with no real purpose. The entire reason for it is to encourage quality content so that steem is based on a knowledge base filled with great art, information and stories. Your suggestion would merely encourage more mediocre content, creating the system we have now where trusted curators and bots are put into effect to upvote content that's not complete crap. I'm not saying don't vote someone with potential,but if they're just shitposting memes, they either need to add value, or go home.
Okey dokey, I'll make a note of this and try keep it hidden from my rebellious side.
That's what #dolphinschool is working on too, improving the content they offer, so that we CAN in good conscience, upvote them.