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RE: Are we circle jerking to get big upvotes on Steemit?
Get anywhere here and expect to be treated like shit for it. I work, I try to bring in new votes, I get new followers, they don't vote, I get called names. Good times!
Perfect timing. I just spent a few hours producing art, shared it here with only a few words... read a post that says:
One of these high-rated people might get $10 or $20 with as little as a picture with a word on it. This is without the use of bid bots.
Get called names and made to feel like your craft isn't welcome. I love this place.
Of course I'm not talking about your art @nonameslefttouse.
I'm talking about a post that takes a few minutes, not a post that takes a few hours. Nevertheless, high quality content tends to make far less than it should when compared to social engagement. I'm not actually sure which should do better.
I think in the long run though, this is going to be a website that is based mostly about social media and not about quality content.
The entertainment industry has never really been about quality content. By the way, I use the term entertainment loosely. Many associate entertainment with laughs or drama but in reality a serious essay about ducks can potentially entertain someone, somewhere.
People are loyal. If they like Stephen King novels, even if the latest one sucked, they'll still support him. Same with music. Eminem is a big shot, he's had a few flops, but he's still a big shot. Your favorite game streamer might be boring one day, but you'll still tune in the next day.
It's not about the content, it's about the people. People like people. People like people who take pictures of trees. It's not about people liking trees.
Also, using Facebook as an example. People are not avoiding posts from their friends because others might see that like and assume it's favoritism and then frown upon that behavior.
The money here is what makes others frown upon success. THEY want that money and view others as competition, so they badmouth every single move the successful ones make. It's their attitude that's the problem, not the way things naturally take shape here.
I definitely agree with that. The minnows will always be jealous of the dolphins and whales, and there's just no way around that.
In my mind though, currently Steemit is like Kindle Unlimited.
It's great for a select few people, but most of the world would not sit in a restaurant waiting for their partner to arrive while browsing through the books on Kindle unlimited.
He would much rather have a Facebook or Instagram type interface that they can quickly access and vote for people that they enjoy interacting with. I honestly think once we have enough of the right Dapps in place to make that possible, we will finally see that drastic increase in price that we all have been waiting for.
It won't be because of quality content though although there are certain people that will always enjoy that factor..... I really don't think Stephen King would have been able to make his start here.
Pewdiepie, on the other hand, would be able to offer quick bite-sized gaming information that the public would eat up because they can read it while they were waiting on others instead of having to trudge through a long book. By the way Stephen King is one of my very favorite authors.
People are definitely loyal to their friends and viewers. That's a good thing but it will always mean that minnows will be try to become friends with whales for financial reasons, and the whales and large dolphins will kind of resent them for it. It's a battle that can never truly be won, because both sides are right.
The point of this post was supposed to be that nobody's actually circle jerking because the people at the very beginning truly became friends, and the people now that are minnows that are trying to become friends with those large dolphins and whales are doing so because they want to get money from them.... and even though the initial people are actually exchanging money too, it's because they've developed those friendships that they can do it without having to feel regretful about it.
Every new member here has the same opportunity to start out small, meet people who might also be in the same boat, and gradually build themselves up to the point many others reached in two years.
They do waste time kissing butt, they waste time buying votes, sitting back, and waiting for a miracle. Too many distractions.
My mind has always been one that looks up to success. When I started with nothing, I wasn't jealous. I saw people who I could be someday. Just like when I was a teenager starting out unloading trucks at a store, seeing managers with nice cars, clothes, fat wallets; I wanted that. I spent a good portion of my early twenties working my way up and eventually had everything they had. So many coworkers would complain, quit, go somewhere else similar and always stay at the bottom. They'd call management lazy, badmouth everything they did. Go to the next place and do the same thing. It's never their fault they stayed at the bottom though. Always someone else. Easier to blame someone than work.
I quit that corporate job right before I was about to move up to a district position. There wasn't much more room to move up. Success started to feel like a dead end. I don't know why I'm rambling.