RE: To Vote Up or to Not Vote Up? Confronting Truth About Our Human Mind Behind Decision-Making on Steemit – A Behavioural Economics Approach
The problem right now is that there's a flood of new membership daily with people trying it out with no speculation capital behind them and their account has 25 rank and 3 STEEM POWER. Until they start interacting with established people, or write something really compelling to get some attention OR import and convert some bitcoin into STEEM POWER then they need to do a lot of minnow work to grow. I think either the whales should be more active to allow the trickle down of steem or people need to bring more than just their aspiration to this crypto community and maybe put some buck behind their clicks, or put their brains behind their posts, either will bring eventual returns.
I think the concept of how steem is made is still fuzzy to the newbs to they are trying everything and some get noticed, and others only attract the attention of the minnows.
I've only been here a couple days and I see the value here, just need time to grow. I think the main thing is to keep your integrity and composure as you figure out how to be a good contributor of stories or comment on other's posts that gets a conversation going which brings attention to that good post you just steemed up.
@dantheman has two last articles on that matter. It will help along of distribution of rewards evenly, but at the moment new content and users hardly get recognition. You are lucky if @dragonslayer109 finds you and brings value to your post through his hidden gems, but even that won't you will be recognized. Scalability will be extremely hard since it is already very hard to go through new content and find gems. Rewards now are shared mainly to already established users.
That's so true about the already established users. It's difficult to get through now that the community is growing. Having a good whale friend would honestly be effective as one cash vote by him or her could help your post become trending and more will follow.
Of course, I believe it's important to put your brains behind your work but I'm pretty sure that's not enough nowadays. Your post isn't noticed as long as there's no high amount of upvotes/money on your account. There's just a small group of users in the trending lists .. Being befriended with a whale makes you a good potential celebrity on Steemit. Whether these posts are full of quality stuff... I doubt about it. It's something we should take into account...
I agree, the whales have too much clout compared to the minnows, but give it a month and the latest batch of minnows will get a bit of steem going and provided they don't squander their rewards and re-invest it into steem power indicating their dedication for the long term, they will build bit by bit and over a month they can go from the 3 STEEM POWER that comes free with signup to potentially multiples. It's not a get rich quick scheme, it's a participation game that will become balanced the more time goes on. The whales are early adopters and developers, they got their rewards for early participation. We are what? 3 months in, imagine where the minnows of today will be in 3 months...?!