RE: Support the Artists! // Why Inktober on Steemit confused me
Instead of complaining and coming to rushed conclusions and speaking badly about OCD and ocdb, you should check all the previous posts (day 1-7) that won. All of them have a 40% vote from ocdb.
This sounds to me like you just wanted to complaint about something, because the votes are there to EVERY winner. Yeah, the ones from day 8-10 haven't been voted, because we were waiting to have 100% VP to reward them even more.
And for the self vote, if you had read the announcement post with more attention you'd have noticed that we are going to use the liquids for something very special while the other half goes for that judges that browse every day the tens of posts participating in inktober.
I like you as a steemian and this post comes as shocking since you usually don't do this kind of posts without being informed about everything.
Either way, congrats on winning one of the daily topics, the vote will come pretty soon.
Edit: I'm currently going through all the comps, and there is not one post we've missed that already paid out. So now, instead of waiting for the VP to go to 100% and maximize the votes for the authors, I'm just gonna go through them all and thus, rewarding less and less each author due to lower VP. I mean, it's that or risking getting criticized for something that is completely for the community, where OCD doesn't keep anything.
There we go, I fell kind of bad for the authors of day 10, because they got a 40% vote at 90% VP, lowering their overall rewards, instead of voting their post at 100%.
Another edit: feels very wrong that you took this way, especially about posts that hadn't even paid out and without looking at the previous compilations where we curated all the authors.
Thanks a lot for your reply! I tried my best to not sound offensive, but rather ask for explanations.
The thing is, that I see the initiative from the perspective of new artists coming over from twitter (or other social media). They certainly don't know anything about VP or liquid rewards and barely read the fine print.
They just see, that you make a post about the 'winning art', which gets a lot of rewards, while the artists not even get a fraction.
Sorry, that I didn't check all the other posts and the votes for the winners. On the other hand, you might agree, that it's at least a bit confusing, that you upvote your post upfront (which doesn't help getting 100% VP soon).
Sorry if it came rough this comment but I'm on cellphone and since we've met before and had conversations etc I let myself go. I hope this explained everything but I do stand by what I said, you could've saved the time making this post if you checked the vote history and where the rewards are going. We've literally done nothing wrong and these kind of posts hurt the image of OCD (when if we did something wrong we'd take the heat like men, but this time we haven't even done anything wrong).
The outside authors part you may be right, but we mad with very clear with big letters on the post and we hope they read the whole post.
Yeah, no problem. I appreciate plain language. You are probably right, that I should have researched more seriously, but I already spent the whole day trying to understand, what's going on. In particular, it was very confusing, that the first winner in this post received an upvote, while the others didn't.
Also, I would really appreciate a comment under the winning posts, explaining the thing ("Congrats, you will get an upvote") and maybe inviting them to join your discord, if they have questions. If I would have received such a comment, I certainly would have preferred asking over there before writing the post.
We're doing that, but once the post had paid out so it doesn't seem like we are promoting this to get votes, but more as a "congrats". Sometimes when you link someone to a post still in payout window might be taken as "go vote me, since I voted you" kinda thing . Thanks for all the feedback we'll definitely take it to get better and better at this. Have a great day!
Particularly as an artist I can say, that some honest feedback is often more worth than money. Especially in times, when other social media is often limited to likes and emojis.
Prooving, that the Steem community is not only for making money, but for getting to know cool people, might push it even further. You know: "We came for the money, but we stayed for the conversations."
Would be great, if your curators would keep that in mind.