Explain how placing $20 beside a post makes it more visible. Why do people think that helps?
If I put $20 beside my post, it blends in with all of the others who put $20 beside their posts. That might as well be $0. The same thing happens to the people placing $50 beside their posts. They blend in. That might as well be $0 as well. Since $20 can easily be the new ZERO, all this is doing is driving the VALUE of a vote down. The votes are meaningless, value has no value, and this can contribute to the value of the token dropping. That's what people are paying for. Less money down the road.
Also, this visibility nonsense again. Each time someone delegates away their SP, we lose two more eyes. Thousands of eyes are converted into one paid vote. People are spending money for votes because they think it will help them be seen, yet they are paying people so they can look away when they buy the vote.
So please, explain this visibility stuff to me in a way that doesn't sound like cheap marketing.
This post is an advertisement and it's sitting on the goddamn trending page. This post, along with all of the other advertisements here push down the regular content, so again, please explain how this is helping make things more visible.
Yeah, because at the moment, the trending page is basically this:
Don't get me wrong here, I mean, Dr. Michael Ho seems like a pretty cool guy and I'm sure his little electric shock massage device feels good; but I can't see how his show would be receiving higher ratings than an episode of The Walking Dead or Saturday Night Live. When I watch TV, I noticed how the commercials aren't on the guide when I look for something to watch. I see regularly scheduled programming in a list, no ads.
I wonder why they do it that way. Wouldn't it make more sense to show the ads on that list instead? Seems to be working here, so why don't they do that everywhere else?
I guess what we forget is that relative to other media, even the much-derided 'old media' of TV, steemit is a tiny player - kind of the equivalent of a community radio station or local public-access TV channel. What 'works' for a network with 60,000 active logins per day might not be the same for a TV show with 6,000,000 viewers or a network with 1400,000,000 daily active users.
And while we are on the topic of 'promotion', can we please stop pretending that any of this would be considered effective advertising out in the wider world. The Nickelodeon's 2018 Kids' Choice Awards has, according to Neilsen, generated 7,953,000 interactions - now that's promotion!
On a more personal, and somewhat conciliatory note, it's also true that who sees your stuff is at least as important as how many views you get. I've done two media interviews (one with a News Corp owned publication), and there's the possibility of a third, largely on the basis of publishing opinion-pieces on a site that has about 10% of steemit's traffic.
This place will shine brighter once they start detecting these bots and placing the ads on the promoted page, where they belong.
Right now, as of this writing, we have four posts on the trending page that all talk about scams. Three of these posts were published by bot owners.
So the promoters are basically promoting how scamming the place seems, because of their services.
I read comments and I see sycophants praising this nonsense.
Cable access channels with their tiny audiences of a town of 30000 still put their infomercials in the weaker time slots.
I'm baffled.