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RE: Pay it Forward Curation Contest: Week 6 Entry
lol, I use steemit to create returns and I'm not ashamed of it.
I'm all for the community, but expecting steemit to not be financialized when that is the entire foundation of the system is just fantasy.
edit: self-voted for fun
P.S. the not upovoting comments was referring to comments on the @darkhorse's post, as he's put a steem bounty on it - basically the best comments (determined by upvotes) on that post get SBD rewards.
My main issue was someone bought a vote to make sure they gained the largest part of the community 20% of the bounty. This took from those who had legit upvotes from others. If people want to buy votes on their comments on non-bounty posts that is fine.
It is extremely poor form!
Thanks for the reply, and it does most certainly offer an attractive return!
I actually included you in the pay it forward contest as I thought seeing your post might soften people's attitude to your point of view, somehow it doesn't seem so bad when it's a few thousand per person.... rather than the hundreds of thousands some people are extracting.
Nice lols at the end there!
Karl.
I remain unsoftened :)
Fair enough, still.. hopefully interesting to see it from 'the other side'. If nothing else... it shows you the temptation to just 'come in for the money'.....there aren't that many places offering a 20* passive return on income.
It's also got me thinking about how all of this relates to the hourly rate the (non bid bot using) content creators get.....
I wonder how the ratio compares to the offline world (return on capital compared to wages) in various countries.
Absolutely it is interesting. And I don't blame others for behaving this way on the platform but it's not for me for reasons that may sound silly but which inform my whole worldview, which I refuse to go against. But I don't judge others who do, though I guess I feel saddened. But hey, I'm sure they think I'm a loser :)
I look forward to reading more of your thoughts on the matter in the future.