I would say the only real obvious thing is that the people above on the list do enjoy the Steem Block Chain, and the social interaction. I have over the course of the time since asking to be tracked, (week 19, Feb 11, 2018), have been all up and down the rankings I have not missed making the list once. I came very close in week 54 when I was at number 98 on the list, and week 21 was my highest placing on the list at number 3. So I would have to say your vision of obvious is a lot different than mine.
The majority of the people watching and following are looking at themselves, trying to see where they are where they are going and if they are falling asleep at the wheel.
This is just the top 100 people, I only spoke to 54 different people this week, only 3 accounts spoke to 100 or more different people. So it is very hard to see how this is rigged.
If you want to earn Steem, you can do it through curation,keep comment on whale post and hope for a shiny whale vote, make a few post of things you are interested in, (I am sure there are others that are interested at time in the same things as you), or wait, hope and pray the value of Steem will go up and more people can start voting on comments other than the large accounts.
I post, not often, usually 2 or 3 post a week, I read a lot of post, if I enjoy them I vote and comment on a lot of them, I enjoy a wide range of post, some I just vote, some I vote and comment, but one thing about my comments is they are all real. No coddling of ohh what a lovely picture, when it is a blurry and poor quality picture. I will give my two cents worth of a comment on how the picture could have been better.
So in conclusion: if you want to make more than a one steem bullcrap I got last week you got last week, make a post or two, leave a sincere comment on a post or two, try interacting like a real person at a normal non rave party, start with a nice quiet small dinner party, then maybe try an outdoor barbecue party, then a company party. Don't jump straight to a rave party unless you really have some thick skin.
!ENGAGE 50
A fair comment indeed!
@bashadow you have received
50 ENGAGEfrom @abh12345!View and trade the tokens on Steem Engine.
I've been blogging for years. I put a lot of time not just in blogging but researching the contents of what I read a lot of times, hours worth sometimes, before even commenting. I have been a moderator on quite a few top blogging sites, as well I am listed as a high reputation blogger and top fan on many sites, I know what I am doing. I also know what I was getting by being in the top tier and what I don't seem to be getting anymore being in the top tier, especially making the top ten. I am not an idiot and I don't speak in a negative fashion unless something isn't adding up. I even forgot I joined this league as nothing ever materialized out of it until one day there was a deposit and notification in my wallet of who it came from. Since I had increased my participation I guess I rose up the ranks unknown to myself.....well I guess that was okay to do for a minute but long term I guess not. I am not even sure the tiniest amount I did see even came from the engagement league, I might have gotten it from lucylin which would mean I got zilch for making the top ten. There's just something really not right about that. Unless they got a reasonable explanation for why I no longer see deposits in my wallet they need to be called out for their deception.
As I’ve told you previously, the top 10 are sent ESTM tokens which you can access via esteem surfer on mobile or desktop.
eSteem are the sponsors, and that is their choice of prize.
If you happen to land on a sponsored number, your prize will likely be steem power or SBI shares, and could be worth more than the ESTM tokens.
Anyway, I don’t feel I owe you a single minute more of my time. You are the only person ever to complain on this 3 year post. What does that mean? It means I should not give any fucks about your words.
I don't know how you look up the history of one's wallet past the few days it shows but I remember distinctively it saying you not any esteem, which by the way I tried to look up and there was nothing coming back on the search, deposited steem in my account for engaging. That's the way it went down until the last three weeks not three months as you claimed. I have absolutely no idea what an esteem is, how much a esteem is worth or even if it's worth my time and investment to want to participate to gain one, they could be as useless as trying to argue with Taz for all that matters.
I know you don't give a #*@(, that's how this site operates and why it doesn't grow, you don't like something someone has to say and it's out the door....that is the exact definition of censorship. This is a centralized site that benefits the top players and all their bots.
As I have told you, they don’t appear in the Steem wallet or on the steem-engine wallet.
I also checked how long it was since I was sending 30 STEEM a week out of my own pocket for this contest, which I run off my own back and the data costs me 40 SBD a MONTH to access, and it’s been 3 months. Check the posts each week if you don’t believe me.
Last post with STEEM as my prizes https://steemit.com/engagement/@abh12345/the-curation-and-engagement-leagues-db70b2364c44dest
First post with ESTM as the prize
https://steemit.com/engagement/@abh12345/the-curation-and-engagement-leagues-2fec61494894dest
The reason for this is that eSteem wanted to replace a weekly vote on my post with their ESTM token.
Considering how much I pay to access the data, and how long it takes me each week, doing this post for nothing is just stupid on my part.
Transfers into your wallet since October 2019:
28 STEEM/SP from this post for doing what you'd normally do, and free stats on your engagement which you are free to use in a post.
So I was right there were deposit into my wallet, now there is not, supposedly they are somewhere in the universe to which I can't locate so however I am suppose to deal with that is all my issue in some great mystery hunt of to which I have no idea what the value of some esteem is nor if it's worth my time to go on a treasure hunt far off into some internet universe to locate. Okay.