RE: Part of building a reputation in Steemit -and huge rewards- is Stop doing the wrightly same thing of making the same from others
Hi @maikelblogo. I'm glad our conversation caught your attention. I agree that the Steem ecosystem is not perfect. I believe there are many ways to go about changing things. Many ideas have been bounced around such as changing curation rewards, including downvote mana pools, improved frontends and interfaces that enable promotion, and removing the 'all tag' trending page. Unfortunately, very little progress to making any changes has occurred. There were some discussions a few months back that changes will be made after SMTs have been released. However, it appears SMTs will be delayed.
In regards to @chbartist. He has received the highest total payouts for his posts for at least the last 30 days. Most of the payouts are coming from bots. These payouts are coming from the rewards pool regardless of who receives them. This means that there is less in the rewards pool for everyone else. Based on the numbers on https://usesteem.com/steemwhales/topauthors and my rough calculation. @chbartist has taken approximately 2.5% of the rewards pool over the last 30 days. If there were 20 users like @chbartist that would be half the rewards gone. The top ten on that list are taking about 8% of the rewards pool (some for themselves and others sent to bots).
I am also aware that @chbartist has helped a lot of people as well. I am not labelling him a villain. Instead, I am highlighting that his excessive use of bots has consequences for all other users on Steem.
I would love to know what you think about this discussion. It would be great if @chbartist could also participate in this discussion.
Also considering that @chbartist has reached a certain level of fame in the Brazilian Music Industry. It would be great if he could team up with @theycallmedan to help promote Steem to a wider audience. External marketing on Instagram, Facebook etc would help as well. Seems like there is a large audience that could be drawn to Steem. Maybe somebody needs to talk with Pamela Barbosa in regards to promoting @chbartist's Steem content on other platforms.