Yes they did. If they are going to come onto my blog and spam it with their propaganda, which also feeds a blog that is not on #Steemit, then yes. Not sure why it is anyone's business if I invest my SP out to others for use and they vote on my post for doing so.
No problem, I'm just a shit minnow, who creates this content because I enjoy it and hoping others will to. I'll just take my focus back to Facebook and other social media.
Some people have a visceral reaction to downvotes. You seem like a reasonable guy.
People can use their investment/stake to influence behavior such as buying of votes, upvoting, and downvoting. While the STEEM you spent on the votes was yours to do so as you please, the resulting allocation of the reward pool is voted upon and not guaranteed. The expectation of ROI for a bought vote is one of the primary issues. Another issue is the bot vendors themselves are creating the false expectation that spending a little STEEM is akin to promoting. While that's true to some extent, you can look at trending yourself to get a feel for how much STEEM you would have to spend to get anywhere close to the top. The level of your bids would put you several pages deep. Not many people scroll that far. These days if you even attempt to bid a post that high, the downvotes will be heavy.
The absolute best way to promote yourself these days is through engagement. While your stuff is very good, and I'd hate to see you leave. It's near impossible to draw a line and say one group of people are acceptable to buy votes, and one group of people is not. If you're relatively new, you missed the days of a single photo post with three words getting $100 bids or more. The recent hard fork was the community saying enough is enough. Most bid bots of the past have switched over to manual curation. There are a few hold outs, as you well know now! :)
As a fellow IT guy, I'd hate to see you go. As of now, you are only promoting yourself to people who have a disdain for vote buying. Getting exposure here is not easy. I know first hand. But I can tell you this for certain. Even had you not been downvoted, you would have received very little in the way of organic votes or followers by doing this. Myself, and many others with stake, if we aren't downvoting, we sail right by posts that have bought votes.
Hope this helps. If you want to chat more, I'm pretty easy to find on discord.
Yep, understood. YOu can't buy bidbots or votes. You can't be a part of a voting circle, circle of friends or any other voting exchange. No circle jerks, no pats on the back, no quid pro quo, favors, handshakes or blood oathes....unless your a whale who posts memes all day long and then it is ok.
Never received a dislike or negative comment for paying to promote a post on other social media. In fact, the opposite has been experienced. I get more positive engagement, meet new people and provide information to people who might not otherwise see it. So I'm going to leave Steem and focusing on refreshing and building the communities I have other places. I just don;t understand enough about how steem works to get along here. I create too much content I am accused of spam, I create too little and I am accused of not being a productive member of the community. I get told I can't promote my posts, or those of others, all the while those with SP can do as they please.
Doesn't sound very decentralized to me. Peace out.
Yes they did. If they are going to come onto my blog and spam it with their propaganda, which also feeds a blog that is not on #Steemit, then yes. Not sure why it is anyone's business if I invest my SP out to others for use and they vote on my post for doing so.
No problem, I'm just a shit minnow, who creates this content because I enjoy it and hoping others will to. I'll just take my focus back to Facebook and other social media.
Haha, way to put lipstick on that pig. Welcome to decentralized governance. I guess it just isn't for you.
@joshman, sorry, I guess my ignorance on the guts of how steem really works to understand this. It is not my intent to put lipstick on anything.
Hey, but at least the two of you made a comment when you downvoted. Even though one of the comments looks like a "bot" comment.
Some people have a visceral reaction to downvotes. You seem like a reasonable guy.
People can use their investment/stake to influence behavior such as buying of votes, upvoting, and downvoting. While the STEEM you spent on the votes was yours to do so as you please, the resulting allocation of the reward pool is voted upon and not guaranteed. The expectation of ROI for a bought vote is one of the primary issues. Another issue is the bot vendors themselves are creating the false expectation that spending a little STEEM is akin to promoting. While that's true to some extent, you can look at trending yourself to get a feel for how much STEEM you would have to spend to get anywhere close to the top. The level of your bids would put you several pages deep. Not many people scroll that far. These days if you even attempt to bid a post that high, the downvotes will be heavy.
The absolute best way to promote yourself these days is through engagement. While your stuff is very good, and I'd hate to see you leave. It's near impossible to draw a line and say one group of people are acceptable to buy votes, and one group of people is not. If you're relatively new, you missed the days of a single photo post with three words getting $100 bids or more. The recent hard fork was the community saying enough is enough. Most bid bots of the past have switched over to manual curation. There are a few hold outs, as you well know now! :)
As a fellow IT guy, I'd hate to see you go. As of now, you are only promoting yourself to people who have a disdain for vote buying. Getting exposure here is not easy. I know first hand. But I can tell you this for certain. Even had you not been downvoted, you would have received very little in the way of organic votes or followers by doing this. Myself, and many others with stake, if we aren't downvoting, we sail right by posts that have bought votes.
Hope this helps. If you want to chat more, I'm pretty easy to find on discord.
I do... but I try and explain things. His content is long and not shit, but the methods are bad.
Yep, understood. YOu can't buy bidbots or votes. You can't be a part of a voting circle, circle of friends or any other voting exchange. No circle jerks, no pats on the back, no quid pro quo, favors, handshakes or blood oathes....unless your a whale who posts memes all day long and then it is ok.
Never received a dislike or negative comment for paying to promote a post on other social media. In fact, the opposite has been experienced. I get more positive engagement, meet new people and provide information to people who might not otherwise see it. So I'm going to leave Steem and focusing on refreshing and building the communities I have other places. I just don;t understand enough about how steem works to get along here. I create too much content I am accused of spam, I create too little and I am accused of not being a productive member of the community. I get told I can't promote my posts, or those of others, all the while those with SP can do as they please.
Doesn't sound very decentralized to me. Peace out.