RE: Living in Our Times: Greed and the “Superstar Delusion”
That was an interesting experience that you have had with that online game, I agree when there are many who could win at the end many will be happy to take part and have an interest to come back.
Once it is limited to only couple but the big prizes the rest will lose interest and go.
The same situation is happening on Steem now many posting and receiving nothing if they are not taking part in the activities of the Steemit team, therefore they are just left for their own surveillance.
People vote and commented on those posts that are done for Diary games or challenges Steemit team, because the comments are upvoted with 1-5% of their account that has 10 Million Steem Power. So you can imagine it is worth to comment them. The rest of Steem blockchain users are just their for themselves.
I think on the top of everything due to such accounts like @upvu and @gotogether, who are upvoting those who delegate them many have given their SP away. It is very beneficial for the users, that means they can post anything even just a single word, they will receive their daily upvote and dividends. It is very tempting but in my opinion if we all give our SP away who will entertain the smaller accounts? Because then Steem may really disappear.
It is a never ending challenge - what and who we vote for with the main @steemcurator accounts.
We are constantly expanding the range of posts we visit, particularly exploring new communities we haven't visited before.
But there are of course limits - even with our large voting power.
Our curation activity at the moment is a sort of 'Economic Stimulus Package' while people build larger accounts for curation.
We are hoping incentives such as @steemcurator02 preferentially voting on Power Up posts will help with that.
It will take time to achieve this certainly, but we are seeing promising signs with a number communities now growing their own curation accounts.
Hopefully over the next 6 months or so we will see some significant voting power being developed among communities.
Additionally to encourage engagement, we do allocate an increasing portion of our voting power to rewarding good, meaningful comments.
Hopefully people will catch on to that and realize they can earn just as well from commenting as from making posts.
Thanks @steemcurator01 for taking the time to stop by and comment!
I do like the idea that the "economic stimulus" can be spread around; and I certainly realize that it is a lot of work (I'm admin in a couple of Facebook groups with 11,000 and 20,000+ members, respectively) to look out for everything that happens.
The chance to get a meaningful upvote for authentic and original content is what keeps many people plugging along... if some of my earlier posts had not been "seen" it's unlikely that I would have continued here. We can look at the monetary value of the rewards, sure... but from the (new) content creator's perspective there's also the psychology of of a sense that "my content is appreciated and valued" which makes most creative types want to continue.
I applaud your voting on comments... it definitely does make a difference; in my early days there were many weeks when my rewards for leaving comments were far above what my original top level posts earned. I still upvote comments, although even with 5500SP I have to vote at 50% to get past the "dust" payout threshold... so it's limited what I can accomplish.
But hey, I keep trying!
Hi @stef1, you touch on an argument I have been making since early 2017: You don't build communities with code and bots, you build them with people.
When you end up with too many automated services or "trails" determining everything, you effectively stop having a social content site, you just an investment. What's the point in trying to be an authentic content creator, artist, creative or blogger if the outcome of everyone's efforts is already determined by automation? And why would anyone new want to become part of that if the true purpose effectively is "I can park 1000 € here and it grows by itself, with no input from me."
That's fine if it's the stated up-front point of the venue... and on that basis I choose to take my efforts somewhere else.
Some small part of me is still looking for the early promise held by the Steem community.