RE: Let's Talk About Quality Content. (Just Because I Can, And Because Everyone Else Does It!)
It would be interesting to do an analysis of certain types of 'quality posts' (above a certain research, length, grammar threshold) and see how much more they get paid compared to lower quality posts (measured by the same metrics)
You'd have to compare the same author - because likeability, the wealth of your friends, the value of your account (money follows money) all have a larger impact.
My feeling is that there'd be a marginally higher payout on the quality posts.
Or maybe not, I had a quick scroll through exlye's posts - his 'here's what I did this evening' posts seem to get paid just as much as his 'here's some analysis of steem posts' - the later being much higher 'quality', I mean unless you want to argue the toss that a picture of him with a steak is worth more than a 10 minute reflective vlog on SBD prices.
Actually pay varies quite a lot. Of course it's always above $20 because of his early adopter steem friends.
OK he's not representative, but based on his post payouts quality has very little to do with rewards.
@trufflepig suggests the same.
Well, most of the "Steem"-related posts brought attention in the past. I'm not sure how it is nowadays, but things aren't as they used to be. It's different nowadays. Nothing in terms of curation or support is what it once were.
When I started, whales and orcas would hand out 100% upvotes manually on a daily basis. They wrote comments and they felt active. Nowadays, most of them are gone. They're either passive or have left the platform. I love the manual curation part of STEEM. I think it's important to manually curate content, as that leads to more interaction. However, many of the "more famous" users from "back in the day", still have the support they acquired from back in the days, so it doesn't matter what type of content they produce, they still get highly rewarded for it, no matter the subject.
I don't have much to say about that, it is what it is, but I can't say that I like it. I'd prefer to see more "rewards based on content/quality" instead of just support because you always had it.
I agree with you though, it would be interesting to see some real, in-depth details about this. I guess it would be extremely difficult to find accurate stats though.
I just summarise it/ explain it as 'early adopter privilege'. I actually rank exyle's upvote circle as quite low down the pecking order - there's far worse cases of content being over rewarded. Swtjss being the no 1 person I wish would just foff.
Sad that it's automated.
Hard to analyse indeed! You'd need to quantify quality somehow then correlate it to reward
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Very true. I mean, there are still people form the "early days" that have been inactive for a long period of time, and they still have free delegations from whales and orcas. That SP could've been used for much better things. If these people would've done things manually, they would've realized this.
And yes, I agree with you. There are many users out there with far more support than he has. 100% auto. It's kind of annoying to see, but it's impossible to change so we need to live with it.