RE: To Vote Up or to Not Vote Up? Confronting Truth About Our Human Mind Behind Decision-Making on Steemit – A Behavioural Economics Approach
I've been here for a month and this is my story. I was reading through a ton of new stuff and honestly contributed to post that I felt have value and voted on posts that are good, most of the time those post wouldn't receive enough praise. Yesterday I was voting on new stuff that had money on it and had much more success.
Truth is that as a small user to squeeze at least meaningless profit you have to vote on stuff with money in let's say the first hour.
The problem is in money incentive to vote and for posting if it was only creation platform this would be a much nicer place.
In my month on steemit I wrote only one blog post and more than 200 comments, and for my honest contribution I was awarded once by @dantheman and followed by 20 followers with 120$ on a post that earned 0.5$ and second time two or 3 days ago for 6$ by few people for sharing a story like this. I also receive small portions of $ by sharing my thoughts on posts by good authors that read and vote on their comments.
The promise of better curation rewards by delegating vests by @dantheman brings hope, but as your commentators (@maynard) above said thing will again be gamed for profit in a first place and not for quality in first place. That is just how people work. Of course, there are exceptions to this but a majority of us want to get rich.
Edit: I forgot to mention I was awared 20 SD by @steemship in contest where he promised to give those to comments that liked the best for also sharing my story.
I fully agree with your response, but I don't know how to think about it. If money attracts money Steemit is not achieving its full potential of generating valuable information. It's more about expectations based on reputation and previous post popularity.
In the end people might to do it for the money but I don't know whether that should be the goal. I believe it should be taken for granted but that's pretty difficult. I don't know whether that would ever change!:P
I don't use social networks, but I came here because I was researching cryptocurrencies and wanted to become the owner of one. This platform made me an owner of 30$ of ETH and 30$ of BTC, along with currently 100$ of STEEM POWER. Idk why I signed but I believe main motivation was money promise. Although I'm doing my best to help and bring community values I think the main motivation is still money.
I believe that greed is one of the core parts of humans evolution and that made human evolve to this stage. Book Selfish gene explains evolution and we have selfishness it ourselves along with a drive to survive. We try to be more spiritual but our nature makes us fight for ourselves.
Furthermore, I believe that this social platform as everything today is just showing a state at which humanity is, since it also reflects same "negative" values as everything else does.
Good thing is that people are bringing good values in the world but they will be as hard to get as they are always since society is all about popularity as you mentioned above and not about being best we can. Great things and values are hard to find and always will be in a way hidden.