Yesterday, I just wrote a post about the upcoming rewards change for Hard Fork 21.
Three comments on the post concerned me. They were essentially saying:
- It's too late to voice our opinions (it's never too late)
- They didn't know enough about the proposal (that's what were here for! to learn and grow! Go steem!)
- It's only going to really affect newbies that were on their way out anyway. (Think so? Well. That's what this post is for)
Here is the problem:
Most people think that this will be a change that will "spread rewards evenly in a new pattern that we will all just eventually adjust to."
@bluefinstudios and I chose cross-section of people for this chart. Minnows, dolphins, orcas, whales.... witnesses, concensus witnesses... you get the picture. And we specifically added some people that were interacting with the last post - so they could SEE with their own eyes.
Perhaps pictures and numbers will speak louder than words.
All this information is publicly available on steemworld.org/@username, YOU TOO can find out this information about yourself - or ANYONE on the blockchain - to see how this proposed change will potentially affect each person.
Steemworld.org lists the last 30 days of curation rewards and author rewards. As much as people want to say this proposed change will help to increase curation - I'm going to show you why it won't. But I'll save that for the end of the post.
Let's get to numbers.
We can take mine for example. I currently have a project that is supported FAITHFULLY by @fundition, and my author rewards reflect that. I also spend a lot of time curating, manually - and on curation trails. I could increase my curation a bit... but I'm doing a LOT right now, and its unlikely that I'll be curating much more than I am right now. And be honest - CAN YOU?
REMEMBER: we ONLY get ten 100% upvotes a day - to distibute as evenly as we can. I currently go OVER that amount, in order to support as many people on the chain that I can. (I'm currently at 63% voting power - clearly over the suggested limit!) Could I just find the consistently "high paying posts" and just put them on my autovote? Uh. Sure. But isn't that the exact thing that we're supposed to NOT be doing? Aren't we supposed to be pushing more HONEST, manual curation? Intentional interaction? Boosting quality content WHILE supporting our friends?
See that? Everyone in the red... get prepared for that new monthly amount. Everyone in the green - CONGRATULATIONS! This proposed change REALLY boosts your wallets!
So if you're wondering where that extra 25% from your rewards is going... Now you know! The people in the green are not the enemy, mind you. I know some of them, and I think they're awesome and often fight for good change.... BUT I surely hope that the people in the green see that they are disproportionately BENEFITING from something that THEY ARE VOTING ON.
Well, hold on @dreemsteem. If I increase my curation, then won't I earn some of that back!? You sure will!!! Let's see how much you need to earn back to break even.
Well, let's see. Take me as an example if you like - but you can look at the chart for everyone! For me? I'm currently making about 9 SP a month in curation rewards. After the changes - if I do NOTHING ELSE, and just keep doing what I am doing (which is pretty heavy on curation), that will most likely double to about 18 SP. Why? because 25% curation to 50% rewards is doubling. So, my 0.05 SP curation rewards on any particular post will now be 0.10 SP.... Follow?
In order to make up for the deficit in my author rewards (which now gets cut by AT LEAST 33%) I need to WAY MORE THAN DOUBLE my curation rewards to break even....I need to take it from 18 to 121 Mine is specific to me. Go look at yours! Go look to see how much YOU need to increase - JUST to break even with the proposed changes. It's that last column. (and if you want to know how to calculate it, if you're not on this chart... leave a comment for me below and I'll show you)
QUESTION:
How many posts are you manually reading and curating each day? And how much time do you have to increase that... SIGNIFICANTLY to make up for the loss in your author rewards?
By the way, those author rewards aren't going into some balanced and distributed pool. It's MOSTLY going directly into the wallets of people who post little, curate a lot - and ALREADY HAVE significant percentages of the curation rewards (because don't forget people... curation is stake-based).
I'm just not sure why we need to motivate the big accounts even more to curate? They are essentially going to be giving out awesome votes, and then getting HUGE amounts returned to them. Why continue to make it harder and harder on the biggest population of Steemians? WHY do we continue to destroy the foundation that we should be building??
So what I'm seeing here is... The proposed changes are showing what kind of behavior they would like to see implemented.
- Write less.
- Curate more (on less material, since everyone is writing less)
- And purchase and powerup 50,000 steem so you can be an orca and get a high percentage of the curation rewards back.
GOT IT.
P.S. remember also - that these are not the ONLY changes. Your payout is also going to be decreased for the other proposed changes in HF21. So even though it LOOKS like nothing changes... (your post payouts will still be shiny and high! ) What you KEEP is going to be significantly lower.
So..... as I said in the last post.
Might we REMOVE this portion the HF21 proposal and consider it for another hard fork? If you agree.... go drop your name as a comment on THIS POST Perhaps if we join together and speak as one, we might be heard.
Tagging all the people that were discussing the last post with us!
@fionasfavourites, @nickhavey, @blockurator, @cheese4ead, @bengy, @zekepickleman, @thekittygirl, @bluefinstudios, @shadowspub, @chekohler, @audreybits, @omra-sky, @greencross, @enginewitty, @eveningart, @saffisara, @penderis, @naltedtirt, @hazem91, @darrenfj, @brisby, @josediccus, @thehive - and feel free to share with anyone you know will be impacted (aka. everyone)
I like the data driven analysis that you have done on the hardfork. One area that I will disagree though, is I don't think it is possible to make accurate predictions on the effects of the hardfork. Sure, you can extrapolate data out and show how it is different under the new math, but that does not take into account all of the other factors.
For example, the price of STEEM could drop significantly if we don't move forward with the changes. The price of STEEM could also rise significantly if we implement them. It is not possible to know, but both are very real possibilities.
Another thing that is near impossible to take into account is user behavior. If more large stakeholders spend time curating quality content after the hardfork (because there is now an incentive to do so), then content creators could actually end up earning more in terms of dollar amounts - even though their percentage of the overall inflation pool is technically lower.
There are some real legitimate concerns about how the hardfork could play out, and I'm not going to sit here and try to tell anyone they are wrong. HF21 could end up being really good for content creators, but it could end up being really bad too. The reality is we are not going to know until after the fork.
I assure you the few extra hundred dollars that I stand to gain based on increased author/curation rewards have zero influence on my decision making process. I am a somewhat large stakeholder (close to 78k SP), so I am much more concerned about whether the hardfork causes the price of STEEM to go up or down, as that has a much more significant impact on my "bottom line".
I want the STEEM price to go up, which is the lense I use to evaluate the hardfork. If the STEEM price goes up, and more stakeholders start spending time curating - then it is a win for everyone. I have no idea whether that will be the end result, but it is at least the one I am going for.
I'd love a list of witnesses who would vote against these changes. I'd like to vote for them.
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I do not know for certain, but something tells me, Pumpkin is against it.
Not from any firsthand knowledge.
I love the way you think LOL!
@enginewitty any idea who is thinking what?
The only top 20 I know that has publicly come out against it is @yabapmatt, who retains the freedom vote and ironically is #1. The other top witness that is against it is @drakos (who is now not in the top 20 - weird how that works). @thecryptodrive is hesitantly on board but wants the SPS to come from witnesses - which I totally agree with. What better way to give back to the community that supports you than by giving a meager 1% of your rewards? I think @themarkymark is also somewhat hesitant based on what I've seen in various comments the past few weeks, but then again, I could be misinterpreting what he is saying.
well ..... ask and you shall receive!
@shadowspub just posted this!
https://dpoll.xyz/detail/@shadowspub/poll-for-the-wtinesses-on-hf21/
I am anxiously awaiting the answers! :)
The poll is great, but won't reflect truth if all the consensus voters don't show up. That's the trick.
That is EXACTLY the conversation that @bluefinstudios and I had this morning. I'd like to know who can see the harm in this proposd change. Any witnesses that will stand up against it - has my vote!!!!
Me too
https://dpoll.xyz/detail/@shadowspub/poll-for-the-wtinesses-on-hf21/
will be interested in seeing the answers! I'm sure @shadowspub will keep us informed!
I would also like to know who it was that proposed this change in the first place. Any idea on that, @dreemsteem ?
wasnt it blocktrades? i cant remember
I surely don't. but I'm sure we can ask witnesses that we go to shows with and Witness chats with!
any idea @enginewitty? @guiltyparties? @jackmiller? @crimsonclad? let's see if they know - or even if they know who is currently voting against this? I'd love to support those who are supporting us!
If i don't have open votes for them - i'll make room.
I'm going to start this statement with a universal Steem truth that we've all been very poor at remembering: There is no one size fits all set of numbers. We all have begun painting with the same brush we rail against being painted with.
This is an opportunity to write some stuff, so I thank you for asking my opinion. You've pinged me and I think I'm feeling really kicked today, as a human and as a steemian. It's my job to respond. Don't take it as a direct response or accusations leveled at you, but rather the best explanation of the situation we're in that I can currently muster as an individual. There are some responses in this thread bordering on vitriolic, and though my knee jerk reaction is to yell "NO, not everyone is that way, witness or user" and I find a lot of the responses in both directions egregious, I'm coming to at least answer you in a timely fashion because that's the respectful thing do to. I fully understand why people feel all of the range of emotions that they do. I understand that as someone who started as a minnow and earned and bought all her steem, who's never powered down, who's never sold steem, who delegates to non-returning things even though growing myself might give me a chance to do more down the road. I learned how to build steemd and run a server and build scripts and tools and how to explain those things to others so they don't have to because they're not interested in the same things as me.
I am caught quite directly in the middle of the two "sides" that a lot of communication, top down and bottom up, is stratifying into a class war. I am the steem everyman, fighting to find time to post and pouring my best work and soul onto the chain and hoping to grow organically, and a special circle-jerk snowflake evil cabal secret society greedy centralized shill. So let's put down the classes we're bludgeoning each other with here and have a real discussion.
I will candidly say that witnessing here has gone from a fun and exciting learning opportunity to a job I take seriously with all my heart that has opened me up, voluntarily, to things approaching outright hatred from people who don't give me the same chance they demand. I see behaviour that as a small account makes me angry and has me feeling unheard, because honestly, a lot of our whales totally suck. I'm not virtue signalling with my experience above, but it is a truth and a lovely testament that a transparent chain bears. I hear where people are coming from.
I have spent actual hours probably now bordering on real days worth of time looking at this, talking to people directly, discussing it in communities, making my personal wants and needs known and navigating a populace that is hell bent on creating a bi-partisan us/them conflict over something that is contentious. My comments are on chain. They're been in the ramble, on shows, broadcast out to anyone who will listen. So a part of me bristles when I get painted with that brush again... not listening, not talking, not caring, not available... just like everyone in this thread bristles at getting painted with one by people who don't listen to them or care to consider them and their feelings of earnings. I understand you.
Here is the best summary I can give you of why this is a thing that has come up, how I currently feel, what I need to do. I imagine NEITHER side will be happy with it, but it won't change until I find more compelling reason to, and part of that is testing and part of that is hearing other people's plans on how they're going to pitch in because this is going to take A L L of us. I message people when they unvote us with much the same caveat: I can't promise to change what we're doing, but I can try to explain it on your way out the door. But right now, right here, I personally am putting my foot down on one thing; we live and die by the sword. Pumpkin doesn't whisper in our ear. We don't have magical bags of money being dropped on us by anyone. Steem pays our witness server costs, our tool costs, and our script costs. Other than that, this month is the first time in a while that I earned my own cut. 2k steem! I'm stoked. That's so much compared to almost every other user on the platform! That's $800. Holy shit. And yet.... none of it has left the platform, ever. And when I look at the hours of time I put in every day, even being generous and trimming out a ton of stuff as "normal user activity"....I'm not even making minimum wage. If you average that out over the months where there wasn't enough left over to split between the two of us, it's a dollar or less... and that's still more than some users! And yet- this is not rich. This is not a consolidation of power. I want to be very clear that the one brush I refuse to be painted with is the hateful "gilded handshake" that I see brandished in other comments here and all over the platform. I have no doubt there are activities where it happens. But, no one size fits all.
With all of that out of the way, here's the closest I can be to concise and it differs not at all from any of the other places I've said it. I'm not anti EIP; I'm Anti-EIP right now. I want a funded SPS and a downvote pool, and I'm not happy that a HF that I fully supported got a tacked on addition that doesn't allow us to properly separate implementation of these things. Jeff and I don't have a perfect consensus between us, and that is tough, because Jeff is crushed that people who should be getting paid aren't and that there should be a reason to get voting again because that's the ONLY thing that fixes distribution, and when looking at those inequities is tentatively pro-EIP. He's not wrong. It's going to be difficult for us to formulate a fair stance on the HF even between us. No matter what we do, we have supporters in both camps. People on both sides will accuse us of "caving" to the other. And no matter which way we choose, we likely will lose a voter big enough to drop us out of consensus. That's DPoS, baby. In some ways, it's the most fair thing in the world. I can't sit here crying because people are mean to me and also because we could basically lose one vote from any number of people who aren't pumpkin and drop out of consensus. If that happens, we reduce what we offer until we aren't $500+ each out pocket each month and keep on keeping on. I don't have a "salary" to lose.
The more people I talk to, big and small, the more I realize that the EIP change is likely needed in some form, but also that it's the last thing we need right now. Retention, onboarding, engagement- we try to blame the rewards for these things, but there is nothing we're doing currently that is improving these things. The EIP will do nothing about them, either way. And even if it did do anything, good or bad, price action of Steem basically nullifies that; here we are, looking at the pointing fingers, pointing more and more, and missing out on that heavenly (enlightening) glow of the moon in the sky. The problems that we have that we are solely ascribing to "FUCK YOU GOT MINE (author/witness) REWARDS" are partially caused by the fact that we think the rewards are what is causing them. The lack of self awareness for what makes for a strong blockchain and a strong coin is insane. These debates are literally the WORLD within Steem, and yet, the world is literally forgetting Steem exists. Feeling that the EIP is a fuck you to little guys misses out on some of behaviors the EIP could potentially encourage that we simply cannot achieve any other way, and pretending like the EIP can magically account for human behavior in every way perfectly is completely fucking naive. The math in this post is too simple: one size fits all. Imagining the EIP as a magic bullet is too simple: one size fits all. Imagining the EIP will destroy the platform is too simple: one size fits all. Either stance places every emphasis on the money, and if we can't fix that part, then Steem will never rise. Some people would change with the EIP, and find different routes to success, even small. Some people would change with the EIP and get crushed and give up. BOTH OF THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW ALREADY, WITHOUT THE EIP. IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN EITHER WAY UNTIL WE ALL WORK TOGETHER.
I can't tell you what you want to hear to try to play all sides and sway the voice of the people as a Robin Hood figure- which is that without a doubt I will vote no. I can't tell you that I will without a doubt vote yes, even to try to "keep some big votes"... because the entity that many believe is slipping dollar bills in my pocket quite frankly knows nothing about my existence other than that I and my partner are great witnesses and heavily contribute to the security of the Steem blockchain (and maybe not even that ¯(ツ)/¯ )
This is a monumental wall of text that may not be called for. I can tell you that right now, it's all moot until my testnet node syncs up and I start playing with testnet condenser and we get a chance to have the testnet HF a few times. I can tell you thank you for allowing me to have a moment here to have a rant, at small accounts, at big whales, at witnesses of all sizes, and at myself, because some days I just want to sing or paint or take pictures and share them with the world and I traded that for this whole witness thing. And thank you for caring what I think (or maybe forcing me to answer you and grill me, I don't know the intent but both are fine- that's the job). I am hoping that I can keep thanking you for trying to bring people together in debate and discussion and disagreement while recognizing them as individuals who need much much more than one size, regardless of the size they might be.
Did I just read something that caught my attention in this very emotional comment:
ref:
So glad you said it and not me, for when I say it so bluntly I get a guaranteed chewing for it.
As with any business venture, the people running the show are the ones who call the shots.
Here those people are chosen by "the people" and hence no matter what anyone wants to yell about, the person responsible for ones actions is the person one sees in the mirror every morning!
Voted in "Governance" is the responsibility of ALL voters when it comes to a business venture, let alone an entire economy such as Steem.
With all the talk about "anti establishment" one would have hoped to see a difference between human behaviour in "real life" i.e. voting in national elections, for those who shall govern and manage the economy etc etc etc. and that of what we can see in our governance and management of our economy etc etc etc.
Won't go into a ramble, just had to react to this as it literally caught my eye and all I can say, no matter what you may have been thinking when you wrote it is:
HEAR HEAR!
no wait, i think it was an acc by name trac? gees am forgetful
it was mentioned on steemit blog, i believe, like who came up with the idea as to try to curb the self voting etc.
self-voting....
I can't curate any more than I am right now. I'm doing almost double the curation that I'm supposed to be allowed daily.
i do that to SUPPORT people on the chain and it drains my voting power. I dont do it for curation rewards.
but now? I'm losing 33% of my author rewards and there is mathematically NO WAY for me to make that up in curation rewards (aside from my purchasing a LARGE amount of steem, and powering up, increasing my stake)
but you know what I know? Every time I work hard on my Fundition project posts - they come support me!
You think I won't self-vote those posts to try to gain back even a LITTLE bit more of curation rewards???
self-voting curbed??? LOL um. try not at all.
someone made the point in a DM that if we want to increase our curation rewards - we need to go to the posts that consistently make a lot of money.
so are we all gonna go put haejin on our autovotes now? this makes no sense at all.
It takes me 4 hours to write a good post. Longer if I have to create and edit video - find suitable pictures - make QUALITY CONTENT that they keep pushing for.
Now.... we are making LESS for working harder. but the large accounts are making more for doing NOTHING more.
????
I am failing to see how this is seen as a good thing.
you should check steemitblog account and state your concern there as the dev and steemit inc do read those comments and occasionally reply :P
btw!!! i will be in LA and SD next week!! will be meeting up with @mariannewest and @derekrichardson . would love to see you as well, let me know! i dont bite, seriously, ask @enginewitty lol
I will be there July 8!!!! will you still be there then? I am too far to drive down twice hahaha
Yes I will be there July 8.
Marianne invited my family and I for dinner at her place. I think thats when Derek can come as well. But most likely not July 8 tho as Derek works that date.
Let me know where you will be on July 8 and we can figure things out 😊
Will message on discord!
She doesn't, TK is one of the sweetest lil cupcakes on the chain so if time permits, do have a bite with her!
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Well.SD is 8 hours from me...lol. So if she is there for July 8... I am all in!!!
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I'm in la, too!
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Well get down to San Diego!!! Lol cuz I guess thats where they will be!!!
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Like @dreemsteem said 😁 the more the merrier altho am a shy person! Have our paths crossed before???? I am meeting my #thealliance and #powerhousecreatives family, so am less shy 😁
And also, hahahah where should we all meet tho???? Marianne invited my family and for dinner, but I actually dunno where exactly Marianne lives 🤣
Honestly I see nothing wrong with self voting. If you are writing something you of all people should like it....
AND
Every smart person pays themselves first. Like with any paycheck you should be “paying” your savings or retirement plan or whatever first. No one came to Steemit to make money for other people. If your self vote is worth $0.01 or $5.00 of course self vote.
@trafalgar
Check this post.
aah true hahaha
thanks boss
Thanks! Looks like he isn't a witness, so we can't un-vote him. And with the large earnings on his posts because of the big-name upvoters that support him, no wonder he isn't worried about slashing author rewards. Heck, he earns more off one of his posts that I would earn in 4-months-to-a-year of researching and writing. 😕
but Shadows just posted a poll - we can see who is voting which way!
https://dpoll.xyz/detail/@shadowspub/poll-for-the-wtinesses-on-hf21/
will be interested in seeing the answers! I'm sure @shadowspub will keep us informed!
@kevinwong has been advocating the 50/50 split for a while.
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I think it was theycallmedan , there were couple of articles from him asking people thought because they are going to implement it. Blocktrades was in huge support too.
I think this fellow has some ideas on that.
https://steempeak.com/dpoll/@mattockfs/with-current-stinc-and-top-witness-support-eip-will-get-implemented-as-active-steem-comunity-member-what-will-you-do#@owasco/re-mattockfs-with-current-stinc-and-top-witness-support-eip-will-get-implemented-as-active-steem-comunity-member-what-will-you-do-20190530t011024760z
I would suggest every Steemian DM their individual witnesses and just ask their position on this portion of the proposed HF21 and concerns we may have.
Very few witnesses have made their position publicly known through their blogs. I realize they are very busy ensuring the blockchain remains functional and stable.
Rich getting richer. That's decentralized, right? That's helping people progress, right? That's the giving spirit! I am so in love with this! Why didn't I think of it before? I would totally be voting for this if I was top 20 and it fattened my wallet and it's what I was told to do so I could stay in the top 20. I totally get it now.
I certainly hope that the top 20 witnesses will take a look at how blatant this is - and pull this off the HF21 proposal. Isn't @shadowspub having a witness forum on Sunday? Would be interested to see who is still voting for this after seeing the blatant disparity on that chart
Definitely going to show who cares about what.😏
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The witness forum on Sun-30-Jun is hosted by Aggroed in PALnet discord.
The witness chat hosted by ShadowsPub in TheRamble is on Wed-17-Jul.
ahhhh thank you! Shadows told me about it today and I assumed she was doing it on a different day! hahaha thanks @thekittygirl
:P
If everybody writes less and curates more, wouldn't that mean that the people still writing earn a lot more than before? Slicing the same pie fewer ways, as it were...
Kind of sounds like it might result in low-quality poor-performance posts being reduced and higher quality high-performance posts continuing. Tell me again how quality improvements are a bad result?
I'm against the overall package of changes, but 50/50 is the best piece of the package, and the one getting all the negative attention.
@josephsavage
Take a look at Haejin's Posts.
Literally 3 words at best, why would I not simply CURATE his posts from here on out, instead of real content creation? this teaches me it's worth more to simply CURATE large reward low value posts
and why shouldn't you? If you curate, it's with your stake to do with as you please.
The ratio of curators (content consumers) to content creators on Steem is very abnormal because content creators are disproportionately rewarded. But that results in a low-price equilibrium where nobody earns as much as they should. Giving curators back more of their own stake ('Come earn money curating quality content') for being effective curators will improve the amount of organic curation taking place.
I oppose the EIP because there are serious issues with downvote pools and the new rewards curve, but 50/50 is the best part of the proposal. If we could have just 50/50 and SPS I would be a strong advocate for the HF21.... because it would almost certainly result in a rising STEEM price (even relative to bitcoin).
So, rather than make posts, I stop being a content creator and only curate?
What happens if we multiply that by thousands of creators and authors?
what's left to curate?
Each user will make their own judgment call about whether to continue as a content creator. It won't be everyone, and if enough organic curation remains then the remaining content creators may do better than they were before.
My concerns are more about the impact of CLRC (convergent linear rewards curve) and downvote pools. Those I think will be devastating impact and make change to 50/50 totally irrelevant in the broad scheme of things.
the 2 or so free downvotes will have ZERO effect.
What user with a rep of 45 or 50 is going to downvote a user with 100,000 SP and a rep of 70?
Although I don't say that this won't happen... I think the analysis is a little bit too simple. From what I see, you have just doubled the curation rewards and taken a third from the author rewards. Yes, definitely in the short term this is what will happen... but there will be a new equilibrium point for the system to settle into. I'm not saying that end point will be like this or not, but I don't think it is quite correct to assume the start and end conditions and assumptions to be exactly the same... I think two states will be different. ...
... but that isn't to say that it will be better... just different!
I have a question. Curating means Resteeming? Sorry for the stupid question. I am still lost.
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It's ok - its not a stupid question. You were gone for a long time and now you're back ! (welcome back heheeh)
Curating is when you upvote someone's post or comment. When someone creates a post, let's say they have a $20 post! (maybe they earned a Curie for an awesome post!)
Right now - you only get to keep 75% of those rewards. 75% goes to the author (which is $15) and 25% gets split amongst all the people who upvoted your post (the curators)
but see.... it gets SPLIT amongst them.
so $5 is being divided. If 400 people upvote. then - that $5 is being divided among the 400 voters.
is it being divided equally??? NO.
If you have a 100% upvote with only a little SP in your account - maybe you will only receive 0.005 SP for that curation.
But if you give a 10% upvotes with 1,000,000 SP in your account - maybe you will receive $3 of the curation rewards!
See? it is based on your stake.
So - if they are dropping your author rewards to 50% now (instead of 75%) then you lose money there... that you can NEVER regain in your curation rewards.
Even though they are increasing the curation rewards from 25% to 50%..... the small accounts make SO LITTLE in curation - that doubling 0.005 to 0.01 - means almost nothing!
but - for the large accounts??? doubling $4 to $8 - means A LOT. (or doubling $3000 to $6000 in one month.... that is ALL being taken FROM author rewards - and going TO curation rewards - and they are doing NOTHING more to earn that.)
do you understand now? if not - ask questions :)
This means upvoting also is curating.
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yes - that was my third sentence hehehe
I read it for the second time and finally understand what is going on. Reading this and seeing red and green got me really confused. I see a lot of red in the chart.
There will always be more people reading than creating.
More readers will be good for us creators.
So if they take away how much we creators I making, I guess we will have to churn out more.
Like the music industry with Apple Music and all.
Maybe it is a good thing.
Or we can curate more than we create.
We only have so much time in a day.
I now have 5 businesses to run. Time isn’t getting any more.
If I can just do one thing in the world, it would be writing.
But life sucks.
And we do other things.
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See?
This is exactly the problem it creates.
Work harder for less. You are proving the point beautifully!!!!
Time isn't getting any more... So if they are trying to make it harder for authors to survive here... They should just come right out and say it.
Hey. If we can’t beat the system. Join it.
If evil ever takes over. I ain’t going to join it. I hope I will never live to see that day.
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Perfect explanation, @dreemsteem. Excellent on all counts.
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Thanks for visiting my friend!! I would so prefer.to be wrong on this..but I don't think I am.. ☹️
Nope, I don't think you are either. Drat. ;-)
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resteeming is NOT curating
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How much of those author rewards are from voting bots. If they are bought votes as a means to grow SP over time vs just a straight power up, won't the impact be less as the ROI calculations will adjust to the new curations %?
Side note, I wonder if we will see a shortage of vote availble on vote buying markets after the HF...
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I can speak for mine. (cuz i'm not tracking bid bot use across the platform LOL)
I have @fundition votes for my project that come in maybe 8-10 times a month? Every time I do an update (that takes me hours to write....) they faithfully support my project!! and I'm GRATEFUL! LOL There are also projects like @helpiecake @helpie @curie @c-squared @c-cubed and COUNTLESS other curation projects that help the little guy!
All those votes that help the newbies to grow will be CUT IN HALF. PERIOD. and the overwhelming majority of the money is going BACK to large accounts.
yes - there are bid bots across the platform, but bid bots are used for SO MANY things. I often will buy a bid bot purchase for people who win a contest of mine! And if this proposal is meant to cut out bid-bods.... it is so RIDICULOUSLY skewed in favor of large accounts - HOW is this actually seen as a correction?
If they want to outlaw vote buying... its very simple. eliminate them.
Don't try to make it "more difficult" to make money on them, while allowing other people to benefit GREATLY off the solution.
it's smoke and mirrors. if there is a problem - go after the problem. Don't "sneak the potential solution" into a win/win situation for whales that JUST HAPPENS to double their wallets too.
honestly - this is so bad - that i can't believe that the people in GREEN aren't speaking out about how shameful this proposal is!!!! It's kind of embarrassing. A case could potentially be made if they were working twice as hard for making double the money.
but they're not. its literally just a windfall for doing not one thing more. (and worse - its taking the money from authors - most of whom are LITTLE accounts!)
I think it may actually create a higher demand for bot votes as people will be accustomed to higher payouts and as such, seek what they are about to be missing.
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Not sure if you are playing next colony.. but there is possibility if you are lucky. Some are selling Explorers for 10 STEEM, and transporters for like 5. I think those are crazy prices but its happening. Others are selling planets for 25-150 I think.. but its all about the type and the location. I have not made anything and only spent 10 STEEM so far.
I've got it bookmarked, have yet to dig in but if things are that low atm...
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I was thinking of SmartSteem. They give you a guaranteed 5% return on your bid. But after the HF if you spend $10 STEEM bid, they need to give you a $21 STEEM bid. It will require a lot more SP to give a profitable upvote. The reduced rewards may really drop the number of content producers and create more people who just sell their votes for growth.
I think you're right that people will be looking for any way to make more money again...
The premise behind the 50/50 rewards is that with the 100% increase in rewards curators will now look for the best articles to curate. This has always struck me as basically dumb, just think, why would a big old whale whose vote is worth $20.00 right now and is giving out 10 100% votes a day (it doesn't matter if he curates manually but randomly, actually reads posts or has a voting bot or delegates to bid bots) and is earning $50.00 in curation rewards , change his voting habits because now he is going to make $100.00 a day?
EXACTLY!
exactly.
not only that - how can WE (the little guys - are already going BEYOND our 10 100% upvotes) how can WE curate more? we can't. the system isn't set up to give more. we only get 10.
if we go beyond that - we can - but our curation rewards decrease.
Curators curate what they want. and always will (that goes for all of us) Taking money from the little guy and putting more into the whale's pockets will change one thing
further division of classes.
Thanks for the tag! I appreciate you putting your argument in numbers and I can understand your point on why you are worried but we also cannot account for all the widespread behavioural changes that will go along with it it won't be a simple case of A and now its B.
But STEEM is starting to outgrow the one use case, which is blogging, there are plenty of ways to earn steem now as well as tokens that can now supplement your efforts.
We all know the system isn't perfect and no matter how you slice it the haves will always benefit over the have nots. I just see it as the harder it is to earn the more you value it the less likely to sell, the more pressure to HODL and the better the scarcity which is good for the community.
As a tech entrepreneur myself, I side on to take a chance, fail fast and learn from it, making a decision has never been a bad move, not making one has always been a bad move. Take a step back, take step to the side or take a step forward all creates momentum, but taking no steps will see you quickly see you fade into obscurity.
As someone who makes their living on the internet, I know exactly how hard it is to generate an income and I've diversified into various streams both in business and personal income streams to mitigate any risk. Which is why I strongly feel people shouldn't make this one platform there be an end-all for rewards.
If this HF is truly the end of steem, I will have lost some money but have fond memories of my time here. I know hardly anyone feels this way but yeah I still believe we're in a position to become something better. Call me an eternal optimist
So what ways of making Steem other than creating content is there? Note, I said creating a content... not all content on the platform is blogging.
When I can get this for two months and less time creating posts because the UI is significantly better, and don't have to push my content out to several Discord channels every time I post in order for people to see it, why should I stick around?
Seriously, two months. And my Steem account right now, after a year-and-a-half, is worth less than $500. I spend more time on Narrative now. Several other Steemians have jumped ship for Narrative, as well.
I am on Narrative but not doing anything on it. People complain about Steem being involved to learn, Narrative sucks big time on that point.
Yeah, it's not like any other website. That's for sure. My problem with Steemit is the primitive UI and lack of development. Plus, I have to go off-site to promote posts to get anyone to read them. It's very time-intensive. I picked up on Narrative pretty quickly.
I don't really have an issue with the UI and there is development starting to take place. It's not all that much different than the UI used on other sites including Medium.com where btw, promotion is done more off the site than on even with them having curators (real curators not just upvoters) on staff to find content.
There are several FB groups where content is shared from Medium and of course on Twitter. Having to share on other sites to get notice on one is not that big of a deal.
I'm not talking about promoting on other websites. I've been doing online marketing since the 1990s. I'm talking about having to use Discord to promote to other Steemians because the trending pages are eaten up by low-quality posts propped up by bidbots and there is no simple way to promote to an audience without tagging individuals, which is tedious. Curation trails are only a small help, and it's all for a pittance.
So, apparently you didn't get the clear message of what I told you. On Medium one needs to go to groups on Facebook that have been setup to promote their posts... just like Steemians go to discord.
Even though Medium has tried to put a system into place for content discovery.. it is not enough so people have to go off site to promote their to other Medium users.
I understand what you're saying. I don't think you're understanding me. Sharing Medium posts on Facebook is just like sharing any other post on Facebook. With Medium, if you're a member of their get-paid-to-publish club, they may or may not put you on the front page. But they have other avenues baked into the system. I submitted a story to Hacker Noon and it was widely read. Got a few claps. Okay, yippee yi yay.
On Steemit, today, I can make $2.00 for a post. It's almost guaranteed--if I am willing to spend an hour promoting that post on a dozen different Discord channels. If I don't do that, I'll likely only make $1.00. On Narrative, I'll make a dollar if I fart.
So as I understand it at a glance, as the SF niche owner you should be looking to recruit people with expertise and subject-based writing skill to participate in that niche, right? So tell me why I ought to come and start generating content for you.
(Also, is that posted fiction or articles about SF or some of each?)
Yes, that is correct. I prefer to cast a wider net and just invite people to Narrative because it's a platform with a ton of potential for many niches.
That's a great question, but you wouldn't be generating content for me. You'd be generating it for your audience. But there are a ton of reasons why you might be interested.
Yes. We have fiction writers, reviewers, other types of non-fiction writing about spec-fic, a podcaster, and poets publishing within our niche. If it's about speculative fiction, it's welcome.
I'd love to see you aboard. I go by @gardengnomepubs on Narrative.
Great points! When you show how the people who are mainly posting and getting small amounts of curation, it's easy to see who will benefit the most. Sadly, it won't be most of the content creators. I believe JustineH did a post where she calculated that with all the changes, authors will see a 42% drop in rewards. That's a big decrease!
Yes, by all means, go see all the extra curation that @steembasicincome will be passing through to its member base in the form of substantially larger upvotes.
It's substantial, and enough to almost entirely offset the decrease in author rewards that members will get from our votes, in spite of the decreased author rewards that will be earned. It won't be able to offset the convergent linear curve, unfortunately.
I am opposed to the EIP, but in my opinion, 50/50 is the best part of it.
I think SBI is in a good position to adjust and be just fine even with 50/50 rewards. One option would be to reduce the cost to sign up for each share. Another is to decrease the amount of leases that need to be bought, thereby increasing the value long-term by powering up more Steem.
You should go see how much steembasicincome is about to make.
With ALL their different accounts
By the way... When you check steemworld, you'll have to refresh their page because their curation rewards are disabled at first.
Geeeeee. I wonder whyyyyyyy.
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I'm actually not too worried about the affect that 50/50 would (or will) have on SBI. They've been really good about returning value to members, so I imagine they'll just give bigger votes or lower the signup cost. That's one silver lining in the gray cloud of all these changes.
Bigger votes and less dependence on leased delegations...
yep! thats' what @josephsavage said! so I'm glad that will benefit everyone!
i need to find out how to transfer all my SBI to some lucky person LOL
I wont be posting anymore - so I need to know where to go to transfer those SBI shares.
If you have at least 25 units, you can request transfer by 0.001 transaction. (Transfers are done manually, thus the minimum)
#sbi-skip
yep - I have 785... well actually no, I think I have more since we got some airdropped to us at the Alliance meetup.
I will most likely transfer them all to one special newbie.
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But again I'd like to apologize for being rude before. Steem is losing a valuable asset if you really do go silent as a content creator.
#sbi-skip
Sorry you won't be posting anymore. It's too bad to see so many people leaving. I don't know if SBI is transferable because I don't help run it, but if you can, you could always transfer them to ssg-community. I'm sure the shares would be appreciated and would help a community. ;)
yes - but i think one newbie will benefit from this. I love my SSG community - but i think they're doing ok.
This newbie is going to feel the hurt from HF21 a lot. and my 785+ shares will help him a lot!!! ( well. i hope they do)
No worries. I'm just messing around. I'm glad that someone is going to get to benefit. It's hard enough to make a progress here without having rewards cut by 42%.
Best of luck to you!
Yet another example of Steemit.com scraping cream off the top for themselves and the whales.
So the content providers, with whom the platform would have died at the outset, have to give up even more of our rewards, again, because those at the top have zero imagination regarding how to actually craft a realistic win/win/win scenario.
Decentralized my ass. Pathetic. Still.
I'm still committed here long term, but it's in spite of the udiocy and greed at the top, not because if it. I have faith in the people who use the platform. I have zero faith in those who control and abuse it.
And we've yet to see whether they break the flipping platform, like they did last time. Bunch of useless dweebs.
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well - discord still allows me to interact with all my steemit family - for free!! hehehe and i will STILL be going to the meetup! ohhhhh yes i will. I won't be able to upvote - but I'll be able to comment !
just to be clear @crescendoofpeace this HF is not being driven by steemit.com ... or steemit inc.. it is the witnesses who vote on it and steemit inc who codes it when they decide.
Thanks for the clarification.
It still takes away rewards from creators, giving them to those who have not created, so I'mstill not in favor of that change.
If they rely want to help creators and the platform, they should go back to 30-day payouts, as it was in the beginning.
That would help creators and curators, without taking rewards from anyone, and would help the whole platform.
that 30 day payout was not all that it was cracked up to be. The reality was if you didn't get upvoted well in the first 24 hour window, you would be lucky to see even a few cents in the next 29 days. Then, like now, content was buried pretty quickly.
No doubt.
But by taking rewards from content creators, and awarding them to curators, they are in effect directly awarding them to abusive whales, since we already know they will be the first to game the system.
Not exactly upholding the promise of holding abusive whales in check, is it?
@imealien agree!
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Thanks for this info. @ned's an idiot and what's the point of voting for witnesses if nothing is ever actually contested in the end? They always just do what Steeminc wants... Steemit probably won't even be worth me dumping posts I write elsewhere, let alone creating it here first.(it isn't now)
There are literally 30 new blockchain platform's out now with many more coming out soon and I'm already signed up on at least 12 of them...
You know me...I love steem as my home.
That's why I feel it's worth fighting for.
But I have to say I agree... Aren't representatives supposed to represent us?
Very sad state of affairs right now.
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got a list of that 30?
Cent, Trybe.one, Pocketnet.app, Narrative, Friendster.io, Jamaa, HyperSpace, Tapatalk, U°, Uptrennd, Foresting, Sphere, Belacam and Minds off the top of my head that I find usable. Many more I forget, because I didn't like them. Then there is Voice and Openbook that are under development that show promise with many more that aren't worth mentioning yet. I hope this helps.
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i have accounts on some of them. I don't really use the accounts but have tried them out. Trybe has some promise.
Trybe and Narrative are the best if you want quality, but both are in early beta. Trybes new UI is worse than the old one and Narrative just opened to the public Apr 1, and is going through growing pains with spam and plagiarism, but the community cares and is tight enough. It will only grow more tight. I prefer Narrative myself, but am going to get more involved in Trybe. Pocketnet has a good development team, but it is Shitpost central. Mostly conservative and a lot of youtube video's being posted that aren't the author.
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I don’t find the quality on Trybe Any better than STEEM. As for Narrative... definitely not impressed. 0x is interesting but not enough to hold my attention yet.
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Lol, I never said they were better, but I don't consider them worse. Of course that simply an opinion. But...I do know that when you are accustomed to doing things a certain way, you tend to be too critical at first. Things change once you really interact an understand what's going on.
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Cool analysis.
We have to keep in mind that currently many users behave the way they do to maximize author rewards. Once people start behaving differently to maximize curation rewards or at least balance between author and curator, it will change a little more.
Also, there are rewards from using bots or delegating to them that are just too difficult to analyze which will be impacted.
Personally I think 2e12 regressive reward curve is the worst change because that only benefits huge payouts.
Atleast with curators technically they are choosing to give me 50% of their rewards via votes. They ain't taking anything from me.
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I can't give any more curation than I'm.giving. I'm already currently giving more than I'm supposed to.
I'd rather not post than have more be taken from me by people who are doing nothing more than what they were before, and earning double the rewards (from my own pocket)
I'll just spend my time curating and upvote my own comments, I guess.
Yes I will make less, but so be it. The principle is more fair than the alternative.
If investors want to make money, let them post instead of taking from small accounts to line their own pockets.
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I think it is just a matter of perspective. Your post is worth 0 until someone decides otherwise.
I have always been in favor of a curation slider, but I would set it to at least 50%. I don't mind giving back more to my supporters since it is their vote. They could always go vote for someone else.
There is way to much mediocre content here that seems to only have a function of getting rewards for vote trading or other self voting services. It is cool and makes sense for the people doing it, but it doesn't really add value for anyone not involved.
There are exceptions, but I think we need to discourage selfish behavior and I see increased curation rewards as a safer way of accomplishing this. Technically you can still get it all back if you trade.
I'm an investor, but as and investor I don't want more Steem I want the market price increase. As a posts I want my posts to earn more Steem. As someone with Steem power Inwamt to increase my curation.
Few people have a single goal. I hope we see better content and not the same boring posts or authors constany. I'm doing very well umder the current system, but I also.see how it is unsustainable.
How long can Steem remain in the top 100? Some of the altcoins ahead of it are a joke....what does that say about Steem?
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I like the sound of that curation Slider.
It's an interesting perspective.
I'd love to see it implemented.
IF people chose to be altruistic, great, if not, we can't judge the reason why, maybe they have legit reasons?
You're very right.
People set the value of your posts and that is thanks to curation. Absolutely right.
However as I stated somewhere in another comment hahaha..it takes me MUCH longer to write my original content than it does to curate that same type of post.
Honestly? Curators don't even have to read. they can just click and vote.
I don't have a problem with rewarding curators with part of the rewards...but as you can see in the chart... It's pretty skewed.
Rich get richer. End of story.
(As far as the same boring content... You should read the story that I wrote exclusively for Steemit... Hehe. It not boring...and got a LOT of steemians very excited for more. I'm currently releasing bits of the sequel daily... Also exclusively for Steemit.)
I suspect for the most part your ideas are correct. I'm just trying to e optimistic now that it seems inevitavoe to pass HF21.
I'm definitely going to check out more of your work.
I do hope this change has the desired effect to reward good content rather than bad content. However its much easier for bad actors to exploit loopholes and just start over if they do something unacceptable.
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Well, I can tell you how I will behave.
Less content. More curation
And I can't wait to TRACK how much more money the whales will be making over time.
Every month I'll go into steemworld to show the last 30 days of activity on the same accounts.from my chart (and more!) To show the people EXACTLY where their money went to after these changes are implemented.
When people talk about "oh ...it will eventually be an equilibrium"... you know what they mean?
They mean ...eventually, the people who leave will take all prior knowledge with them and we will only be left with the ones who don't know any better.
But numbers don't lie. And the blockchain is forever.
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do you actually believe any substantial change in behaviour is going to happen? I don't. Currently I read and upvote content as much as I can. I rarely ever bother with being concerned if my timing is good for curation rewards... i'm merely supporting others and if some curation happens great. That is not going to change. Others have a list of people they auto upvote and rarely look at the list as long as they get rewards. now they will get more by default. Then there is the whale who has been vocal about this change so he could get some more Steem and invest more in curation bots. That is not actually seeking good content that is sending a bot out to upvote on autopilot
There will be a little change. Those who change will benefit and those who don't will fall further behind. For now I make between 1 and 1.5 Steem / 1000 SP in a week of curating and I selfvote which tends to be most profitable.
I hope that atleast doubles, but I imagine it will triple. It may affect profitability from other ways, but it's going to be hard to isolate with the SPS and new curve coming in as well.
Yeah, hard to isolate.
It's almost like someone should suggest to make changes separately so we could see what actually worked and what didn't
Huh
Someone should really do that.
😂
As far as self voting being the most profitable option.... I agree....I think that is where more people are heading.
Most people dont upvote their own comments, but... Think about it..
If they do..they get all the author rewards and all the curation rewards.
Well....unless the downvote police come and express their disapproval for people trying to earn what was taken away
Seems like they're setting up a system for people to do exactly what they DONT want to happen
When they see this happening, they'll probably punish every one a little more! Lol
Bad little money-grubbing Steemians!!! We want you to do it THIS way. Why won't you obey?!?! Hehehe
(Im laughing cuz it's better than the alternative)
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It seems the intent is right to increase the curators as it is much easier to join, curate and not have the pressure to author.
What they seem to be missing the boat on is that the awesome content we already have is because of the author rewards. Why deflate your strength in order to promote growth in a weaker area not even knowing that this will work? I don't flatten 3 tires on my car to even it out with a low one. I pump up the low one.
I do feel like a dog barking at the mailman though. He is just going to deliver the package anyhow.
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hey! good to hear you too!!!
i don't think anyone is missing any boat ;) i think all is known. but tricksy rhetoric is being played to the masses who don't know any better.
and the low tire analogy - freaking brilliant.
BRILLIANT I SAY! hahahaha
and we are all dogs barking at the mailman. i supposed it is life. LOL the money makers will always make their money. one way or the other. theyre getting that money LOL
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Oh my word! Hearing all these for the very first time. Dammit!
Well sadly, I hate that this is coming now to your ears.. but better than when you look at your first payout afterwards and see half your author rewards gone...
Now at least you know why. Sorry, friend :(
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Thank you for this data... although I am prolific, and although I do what I do for the future here, I do see in the red and green a problem. And then there is also the fact that the creation of new accounts has been tailing off all year (@penguinpablo's daily data shows that clearly) even though engagement is up.
I'm a newbie. A lot of us are smart enough to track the steps that Steemit is making to make life better or worse for newbies. There are plenty of places newbies can go too, and fewer are coming and staying on Steemit. HF 21 may not be helpful in attracting and retaining new users, because newbies WILL be able to find out what the trends have been, and can find out if HF 21 fits the trend of helping or hurting new users.
Interesting...so if creation of new accounts have been trailing off ..and posting will be trailing off...
Hmmm.
Sounds like this place will be hopping! Lol
Sadly, I believe HF21 is going forward without any hesitation (from.those who are set to make much more money) so that's that.
The people have spoken and been promptly ignored. I guess we all hage choices to make!
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@dreemsteem, I never want to see this Ecosystem going towards the state of Down Phase but when someone is putting efforts and travelled a long journey while adding more power to the Foundation, they doesn't deserve cutting off of these Author Payouts.
Changes should empower not depress anyone's efforts. Let's see which destination is wrote for the Steem Blockchain. Let's hope for the best and stay blessed.
This really hurts the creator. The creator is the hard worker and although there are posts that arnt necessarily good quality you can find posts that are very high quality and this new thing will really hurt the content creator especially the newer members because they will now be shewed away. It’s a shame most people go mad with power. Thank you so much for sharing on PYPT
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By the way @josephsavage...i checked your account also, and saw that you would lose in this proposal. I was confused (temporarily) why you would be so passionate about this change that would put you in the red.
just checked steemworld and saw just how much you stand to make with these changes on all the @steembasicincome accounts.
I am no longer confused.
Wow. Just.... Wow.
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Curation rewards earned by @steembasicincome accounts pass through directly to members. Did you also look at the upvote distribution while you were checking the curation earnings? We have delivered more than 700,000 total upvotes... 3471 in the last week.
I am opposed to the EIP, and have publicly posted that on my own profile and on the @steembasicincome explanations of EIP impact.
I do think that 50/50 curation will be better for content creators, and I'm on the record saying that at least 18 months ago, long before @steembasicincome was earning much in the way of curation rewards. Even before I started @steembasicincome, I started with a curation digest that rewarded curators much more than featured authors... also to incentivize curation.
@steembasicincome is a curation initiative that shifts the emphasis from curating content to curating accounts (via sponsorship for dedicated stake). It has always been 50/50, as each time you curate an account (by sponsoring it for SBI) you are enrolled for the same level of SBI support. The success of the model shows that people are more than happy to curate at 50/50...
Good curation results in better rewards for high quality content. In spite of the other EIP components that I think are very problematic, I expect to see a long-term equilibrium where higher curation rewards results in a much higher maximum payout norm on organically curated content.
My passion for 50/50 is because I think getting curation rewards right will attract more organic curators, make it easier for quality content creators to get organic rewards, and result in dramatic long-term price increases. I stand to gain a lot more from long-term STEEM price gains than from a little more curation income... especially since that extra curation income passes through to SBI members.
Awesome! When you start making twice as much curation - everyone's votes should increase too! Cuz you'll have all that more to give back to the community!!!
yay steem!
Yes, that is a very brief summary of what I just said.... and what we published in our analysis of 50/50's impact on Steem Basic Income:
https://steempeak.com/hf21/@steembasicincome/sbi-in-an-hf21-world-part-1-50-50-rewards
I am in the camp that doesn't want this portion of the HF21. I've always been of the mind that those who do the brunt of the work deserve the brunt of the rewards (along with the responsibility that the work done is accurate and of quality). I remember reading about a proposed 50\50 split some months ago and I'll say now, again, that I feel a content creator should be given more of a percentage than an investor (curator). Not to knock the importance of investors but my feelings tie back to my above view that those who do the work should reap the benefits.
Granted, this chart doesn't include the time people spend commenting, working on other projects that aren't their own, or how much they delegate/donate/lease steem/ paypal funds for various projects/people in need, etc. but that isn't it's function.
I'm for removing this portion the HF21 proposal. I don't see how it will help our community.
At 100% (which I'm rarely at thanks to my manual curation and being on two voting trails - I'm often somewhere b/w 60%-90% ) my upvote is worth 0.02. (Personally, I love this and giggle over being able to give my 2 cents. 😂)
Sure, some of the people I upvote make a decent amount on their posts. Some of these people are my friends and I'm happy when content of theirs does well. For some of these people, Steem is their only source of income so I want them to be able to make a living from their work here. Now, though it may seem from the data above that I upvote and carry on my merry way to happily take in some mula but, I do not. I spend hours commenting (and working for other projects as well as giving delegations and what not) so I understand that there are others who do the same. (No idea if they're some of the one's in green as well. I do know that there are so many people in our community that give endlessly on top of/aside from posting content. <3)
Again, I do realize that the point is to draw everyone's attention to something that they should know and should voice their opinions about. And again, thank you for doing so. I AGREE that I don't want creators to take a heavier cut from the rewards payouts for their work, and also know that there is more to one's interaction on the chain than can be seen with this table.
Basically, at the end of the day, I want to see this platform thrive with both veteran users and new coming together to laugh, share, create, explore, and earn. 😎
Hope that you're having a good day, Dreemsteem!
Does these changes bring back the sp back to user wallet who have invested in different bots or upvote scheme? To get more curation with more upvote value?
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I am so glad you wrote this post (and the others) regarding the upcoming HF21. And glad you shared in PYPT so many more people could see the numbers, which might have been missed otherwise! 🙌
So sorry i missed this!!! it's my pleasure- i'm glad it got more discussion out on the table - regardless of whether we are being heard - we are hearing each other! :)
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Such a difficult time and set of issues. Hopefully the downvotes will be used.
difficult times seem to surround us here for quite some time. I can walk away proud that in almost 3 years i've never powered down, i've invested my own money, i've created two communities, I've had a voice amongst my peers, I've written two books for the Steem community that I could have just released into the public market, I've treated people with respect, I've only complained about"author pay" when it was being siphoned to large accounts... and! i became a dolphin.
pats myself on back LOLOLOL
onto new worlds!
No matter what anyone says - I'm thrilled w
I would like to get a simulation done by the top20 witnesses in order to reply your post.
Thanks for doing this work, for me it is evident that this HF21 is going to benefit the big accounts and not the content creators.
We should change our witness votes as a selfdefensive action if we don have news about the results of the tesnet trials also.
You need to do whatever you feel is best for you! :) I know what I will be doing!
thanks for being willing to discuss it! that's more than I can say for a lot of higher ups.
Hi, resteemed and, hopefully, linking you in to the post I just published that (without my knowing it) lends some support to your predictions.
An Analysis of 50% Curation Rewards in EIP and HF21 - All Delegators Should Read This
You have a lot of comments for me to read through....
ok! i'm actually getting ready for church - but I will read your post when I get home tonight ok?? :) promise!
and yes - a lot of comments hahahahaha
Hi @dreemsteem, on a different (but related) matter, I see you have some MAPX tokens - you need to stake them to activate upvotes (2% from 33k SP is not bad!)
Unstaking takes just 2 days.
they are unstaked because @eturnerx gave them to me to juice up my "pot" for the Name the Monkee contest hehehe - thank you for reminding me that I need to update that post to tell people the prize is bigger. I'm just going to give them away... so i think the winner needs to stake them - right ? :)
Unstaking only takes 2 days, so you can stake the MAPX and use them until just before your contest deadline.
To award the tokens staked, use the staking icon on steem-engine and add the recipient's Steem account. That way the recipient doesn't need to do anything.
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You can award them staked. Push the staking button in steem-engine wallet and change your username to theirs. Done. I normally give MAPX staked so the recipient doesn't need to do anything.
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Oh. My gosh!!!!!! I forgot to transfer them! Lolololol
I will do this tomorrow morning...if I have issues...I'll DM you 😂 thank you for reminding me! Lol
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