Everybody has to start somewhere and 4 years ago, I started where you are now.
What seems like only yesterday, things weren't so different... perhaps there were more authors willing to write with variety and creativity - because they didn't know where the steemcurator would come from.
Now, everybody knows where the steemcurator will be, which is why Steemt has so many people keen to learn skills that they have little interest in. It is what it is. I believe it's a phase. Another phase. Which will eventually stop and in my opinion, will eventually return to the unpredictable like when I first joined.
Until then, we find joy in our own places. In our own circles. Perhaps we're our own, unique clique. A brotherhood that connects us from a core belief rather than a financial objective. Would we do the quiz without the rewards? How much have you or I earned from the quiz? I have absolutely no idea - that's for the haters to calculate. I know it's consumed 1/6th of my year and has probably taken up more of my life than it should have done. But the measure of my year so far is better calculated by the joy it's brought people. The joy it's brought me... and the disappointment that I felt from people when I said that I couldn't do it any more... all the more reason to keep going and continue. That wasn't money. That was something stronger that very few people on the platform have. So it's nice to see that you feel it too.
Sometimes, I wish I were from your generation, but I wonder - was this place just as full of garbage back then?
I don't or maybe I just didn't care 1) because quality is subjective - what could be a quality post to me might come off as boring to others 2) Guaranteed money is boring - I want to play the hard version of Steem. Although the game is already lost but we'd rather look good losing.
And that’s exactly it - you created a space where people could genuinely connect and have fun. When you stopped, the sense of loss was universal - everyone felt the withdrawal(symptoms) immediately. Was it about money? Hardly. Money can buy many things, but this? This was priceless.
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Yes. The trending page was probably even more full of shit than it is today.
There was also a huge amount of plagiarism when I signed up. Fairly early on, I wrote a post asking if plagiarism was ok because it was so ubiquitous. That’s definitely better now that AI is more prevalent 😆
Whilst there is any kind of auto voting, there will be garbage.
I think it’s important just to be curious. I remember trying to work out why upvu likes tanks so much. What made today’s tank any better than yesterday’s? Coins too. Upvu had very strange taste in my opinion. I understand now.
Behind the sc account, there’s a very likeable human being. They’re not always in control of the account but when the personality comes out, it’s so nice to see.it just doesn’t happen often enough in my opinion.
Thanks 🤩
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Fact. For the money hungry, who cares if it's garbage, it's efficient and profitable. Rather than genuine social interaction, this system seeks to automate the process with a machine. I wouldn’t say auto upvoting is inherently bad - if someone needs a little artificial boost to get started, that’s their choice. I mean, if they want to begin as close to the finish line as possible, that’s not really my business - as long as the content is good.
No matter how good a system is, people always find ways to screw it. Just like in the real world, good and bad people coexist. While it might be convenient to eliminate the bad, it wouldn’t be as meaningful - after all, without the bad, how would you recognize the good (those who resist)?
I do a bit of sleuthing now and then, but not too often - what I find usually ends up being more disappointing than interesting. I haven't gone that far yet as you can probably see I've just been baptized whatever the hell that means 😆 ... So I have just heard about this bidbot upvu and why steemit has become a pay to win system...
I have nothing against them, I know a few who are nice and sensible. I just wish they would engage a little rather than just upvote.
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Oh, I mean all auto-voting. Not just the use of bidbots but curation trails and everything else. I've seen some extremely interesting authors who were so good when they signed up. Then they became moderator of a community and with that, some auto-votes from a curation trail. It went from extremely interesting to 3 or 4 photos of their food every day. Whilst this user wasn't buying votes, she'd sold her soul.
When we were in a curation team (steemcurator0x), I created @curator-helper which would scan for active posts with particular tags, sorted by my algorithm and that hadn't already been voted for by one of the steemcurator accounts. I don't run it very often but it's a good way to find new content that I might be interested in. I've just run it so take a look and see if there's anything you like 🙂
They do every now and again and it's so nice. But then it's as though somebody in Beijing saw what they were doing and makes them stop! And then just like that, they're gone again.
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That's really unfortunate...
I would - as long as there are no cricket-related posts 😄Joking, it seemed like a good filter and you listed a user I’m already keeping an eye on 👍
Oh, now I understand. Hm...
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