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RE: Blogging About What You Want To Focus On Or Just Maximizing Profits?
You've highlighted one of the main problems with Steemit as it stands, and something that in my opinion undermines the platform as a whole.
Once you get a following (usually by persistence and quality posts), then unfortunately it doesnt really pay to put the same effort into each post. I've seen some good content producers getting lazy, and churning out 1 pic posts or a few retarded sentences.
A bot cant tell the difference however, and it is only through manual curation that it is possible to spot this.
I guess it then becomes a bit demoralising for n00bs who see a lot of bollocks on the trending page, and then wonder why their hard work only gets peanuts!
The situation was far worse in 2016 in my opinion but yeah it is still a big issue and in the end it is hard to say how to solve it really. Because when it boils down to it a lot of those people hitting trending have a large amount of STEEM power and have influential friends so it is just like in real life. If people are rich and are rubbing shoulders with other wealthy movers and shakers then they are going to propel themselves forward. I don't have a problem with that but it is always a cost analysis of how much a person should go in to try to move themselves up the ranks. The calculation is often hard to really get a handle on because there is no telling where the price is going to be etc. So it is a risk of course.
But yeah for new users and can be very frustrating.
I was thinking about this and the only way I can come up with to spread the Steem Power of circle-jerking whales and dolphins is to diminish (or block completely) voting on the same account within a given time-frame.
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Algorythmically speaking, it should be possible to implement, and in theory should spread the SP more evenly. It does have a negative of not giving full freedom of reward however...