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RE: DTube Talks | My Personal Message To DTube And Heimindanger | New DTube Curation Update
Wow man, that was a direct attack at soooooo many video producers like myself who don't have the money or the time or the interest to go as deep as you do. But saying that our content is no quality and doesn't deserve upvotes is outrageous. I am not asking to get as much as you do but it would be nice to get a 10$ upvote once a month or so for the video where I just film myself with my phone. Thanks for showing what you really think about the people that came before you and helped to make the platform what it is. So, I don't complain about how things are but watching you complaining that YOU want more to have less voting power for others is really something!
@flauwy you are absolutely wrong. I did not attack video producers like yourself. I very specifically said that you did not need money, or equipment to create a good video. You did not pay attention at all. I said that a video either needed to be of high quality or of high value. You took it upon yourself to take this personally.
And I always felt like you deserved upvotes because I watched your videos and you provided value. But making excuses like not having money or time or interest is completely on you. If you want to make money on a "Video Hosting" site, then it would be a good idea to improve your "videos."
I guess I opened up Pandora's Box.
The amount of money you throw around here is incorrect, it was a lower number and even that was based on wrong calculations from a third party application. I never receiveed even a fraction of that. But what has that to do with the discussion? How does that help a content creator in India who has only a phone to record and zero money but already one hundred more or less good videos on DTube with 0.00 upvotes?
But anyway, I wish we wouldn't have talked about my personal finances on the public blockchain. I haven't pulled out your earnings either. And it hits me even harder on a day where I realize that I cannot pay my really low bills. You hit the bull's eye with that,
Regarding my own content creation: I have improved my videos by working for three months on a new animated puppet which did cost me a small fortune and is totally unique on Steem. I am happy with what I did there.
DTube is trying to get more votes to more content producers with the limited power they have. That is an honorable goal. You make good videos and good money on DTube and that will most likely not change.
I apologize for the rather rough first comment and I hope that this reply is less confrontational. But as I am following your work from day one Steemit I felt compelled to voice my opinion. I do not wish to fight with you.
I was only going based off of what you told me. Honestly I just wanted to drive the point home that when people say they can't do something because they don't have something, they are ultimately making an excuse. Casey Neistat just made an awesome video on Youtube about someone who overcame all troubles and made no excuses.
What got me is when you said "like myself who don't have the money or the time or the interest to go as deep as you do." I took it personally because you attacked me personally. In the video I made it known that a good video is not defined by the equipment or money you have. It's multiple things. The effort you put in, the value you provide, and even the quality of the video. A Hollywood producer just made an entire film on iPhone. So that's incredible!
There are so many stories of people coming from nothing and achieving everything. But we cannot make excuses or baby people. That was the whole point of the beginning. When I first got into videos 6 years ago I wanted to make amazing videos and a lot of money. Imagine if someone had wrote me a big fat check! I would have never been convinced to get better and to try harder.
I have seen your videos man, that's why you're on my upvote. I've always admired your videos. I like what you do, since the day I came to this platform. And it's unfortunate that you were accused a couple of weeks ago and I encourage you to just keep going honestly.
With all of that said, I refuse to allow people to make excuses for reasons they are not successful. Unfortunately in a real world situation, people who make excuses never succeed. Thus we must push ourselves every day to do better and to be better without excuses. That's what I do and that's why I am where I am today and I'm proud of it!
Thank you for this great reply. I really appreciate that! And it makes me regret my intial rant as I could have worded myself with less emotion. Sorry for getting personal.
You are absolutely right with the effort you have to put in and the excuses you can make in order to not do that. I am in a fortunate position with my SP but I also know that I have worked very hard for it before. Ever since I was attacked here I kind of lost my mojo. That has heavily impacted my Steemit activity and video production - and income. I am in excuses-mode.
You on the other hand, are in power-mode. That is cool for you and great for the platform. But I have been there as you know and it can make you blind or like in my own case even ignorant of the fact how much of the Steem reward pool a power user like yourself is already receiving. For example this week you have an expected payout of 0.0567% of the reward pool according to Steem Supply. That is fantastic and a great achievement. You have earned it as well!
However, that also means that you are currently receiving over a 2000th share of the entire author pool which is shared among 60k - 70k active users. So when you receive less upvotes or smaller upvotes for your work then you would still be one of the top Steemians to receive a large chunk of the reward pool. Right now you riding the wave of being a favorite of the DTube team. That is a massively centralized decision (with the new rules slightly less) which effects all other DTube content creators as well as the entire Steem ecosystem since all platforms share the same reward pool.
My conclusion is that this new system is a first step into a more decentralized and fairer upvote system than it was before - although it is still miles away from that. The massive delegated Steem Power that DTube controls will hopefully spread out wider now which will effect probably all top earners on DTube. But the cool thing is that you can still work in power mode but spread out to DLive for example or find other ways to make more Steem. You can even earn more than now with the same effort but more wider approach among different platforms.