Votes for Sale Today = Facebook Will Never Die Hurray.

in #life7 years ago (edited)

Hurray for Steemit Groups that Sell Votes. Just like Facebook, Steemit is now a Pay To Play Utopia for Profits


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It's the best. I used to think "Wow, Steemit is gonna put Facebook out of business." LOL I used to think that Steemit rewarded communities and building communities organically. I used to think that the old world meathod of Pay To Play was gonna die. I used to think that monetizing exposure and rewards was about to be a thing of the past. I was getting worried that Crypto Currency was gonna embrace the technology unleashed by the NSA in 1996 and turn it into some kind of egalitarian, equal opportunity, new paradigm that rewards humanity in new ways. I thought maybe this steemit thing was gonna give back to people for simply sharing what they care about, meet other people with same interests, and then god forbid get rewarded for it. Thank god was I wrong!

Bots are awesome. I was worried that bots were gonna be used by people to reward friends and interesting people. One could set up a bot to vote on posts and give back to the community. One guy was actually going around and caring about everyone he could, basically giving money away. What the heck was up with that? One guy set up a bot to reward specific interests such as humanitarian and arts and specifically to help new members. What a maroon! But the smart ones are the ones who bought up tens, no, hundreds of accounts, and poured their old money into them to upvote each other and then flag anyone trying to get the boot off their throat. Brilliant. So my tip to you is first of all, have money, then second of all buy a whole fuck ton of accounts, then have those accounts upvote each other. And also set them up to only vote on people who are already successful. Make sure to tell all the new people to give YOU and YOU alone a 100% upvote. Make newbies into your bots!

But the coolest thing of all, is charging people for votes. Now I know I know I know there was some talk in podcasts or maybe a chat room or maybe even a white paper about how selling upvotes was not a thing. But first of all, who reads white papers anyway. But more importantly, make sure you ignore any opportunity to not make money off of someone else. And selling votes is the new exciting opportunity on steemit. So if you are not already rich, you get to give the rich people the rest of your money for votes. Sounds great right? Instead of spending time writing about your interests or your family, you get to jump into a contest and compete against each other for validation and approval credits that you can use to buy votes. Remember slavery? Those were the good old days, when the jesuit master would pit the darks against the lights and the tall against the small and the House Slave against the Field Slave. Those days are back baby! Hallelujah praise fake jesus! There are contests and competitions where there is only one winner. Those are the best, cause the world needs loosers. And then there are these other things called BOUNTIES where you hustle and hustle and don't look at your watch, don't listen to the baby or gramma noise, don't talk to your neighbor, dont you dare go out doors, NO, you hustle and hustle for something to maybe sorta we'll see I don't know but the idea is you get some points! THEN the beauty of it is, after all that you can use those points to

Voting is not democratic. Nobody wants a democracy. Everybody wants to fight about politics but not do anything about it. If people really wanted to make a difference then they would get involved in Curation Trails or Wiki Projects or Show up at on discord or better yet go to their local government and get involved. OR they would get with some community in the desert of Texas and reach out to help others live a sustainable lifestyle. But what is the point of that when the rich can get richer and the poor can beg for more boots to put on their throats. I was read someone write some "Constitution of the Blockchain" once and I got worried they had integrity. I was worried that EOS was gonna be some new project to really empower the community and change ico's . Their token agreement said to confirm one is not in the USA at this time. I mentioned something about it in their slack and telegram. And thank god everyone in those platforms told me to ignore the official integrity of the token agreement. Nobody would answer anyone asking about the legitimacy of the Governance model. Nope, everyone, especially the lead devs, were running around telling people how to give over their money. Everyone was FOMO at the mouth and not concerned with official agreements. How awesome is that! Why are you even reading this! Get out there and take that fomo money, go give to the rich, and don't forget to go buy and sell some votes!

It's a brand new day. LOL. No it's not. I am sure @ned, @dantheman, and @steemit meant well and wanted a platform that would reward communities, be a conduit for joy, and eventually replace twitter's old model of ads and paying to have content seen. But there are too many warm and fuzzy big rich mammal fish here who know how to make that bling bling dollar bill ya'll. They see ads coming to facebook and were smart enough to get people to at least start paying for votes, paying for rewards, paying for exposure, and protecting the facebook model of pay to play. Now if we could just start collecting everyone's private data. Oh wait, all our transactions are visible. Just like the original bitcoin whitepaper, HOW TO MAKE A MINT: THE CRYPTOGRAPHY OF ANONYMOUS ELECTRONIC CASH written by the National Security Agency Office of Information Security Research and Technology Cryptology Division in 1996 said our transactions would be.

Thank you Trojan Horse Crypto Currency Paradigm for making sure that the old world paradigm survives just in a whole new way. Keep paying for those votes. Don' bother asking me for anything. I'm no thing, no body, no one. I used to be a big fan of Social and Political Satire. I was trained and performing with The Second City, Annoyance, iO Chicago, The Playground, and Comedy Sportz and The Reckoning and trained at The Actors Gang. I used to appreciate comedy and it's satire artists in history like Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Dickens, Voltaire, Shakespeare, Orwell, Kubrik, Nelson Algren, Dario Fo, Del Close, and the list goes on of a bunch of loosers who thought their words made a difference. No way not no more, I'm just a ghost in a shell of a man looking to buy some boots to put on my throat. Wanna trade on 1Broker, buy more LTC, ETH, BTC, on Coinbase, Maybe invest in PEERITY and AICOIN and some more @Zappl and Bitshares and GOLOS. Definately more STEEM now that it following the Facebook Path to Bling Bling Pay to Play Glory.

omnem pecuniam


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I propose that repeated votes on a person have great diminishing returns. Voting on fresh faces should give you (and them) the most rewards.

That is an interesting idea. However, if I finally get my best friends to join. I am gonna wanna vote on their stuff, no differently than if I 'liked' their stuff on facebook. I fully support voting on fresh faces. @Fyrstikken the viking is a champion at doing that. He really cares about encouraging new users with unique contributions. I suggest popping in on @Steemspeak some time. I have a link above for the discord there. But yes, interesting idea you have.

Thanks for sharing mate..
I agree with you..
No democracy in the game..

Ha ha ha ! I love this comic. Nice find.
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I don't mind that there is no democracy, that only exists on the local and community level. It just always cracks me up when the ones holding up the old world, sing of a new one.

Thanks for kind words
"exists on the local and community level" well said
By monday, I will post ... something not about democracy
.. about the game.. the truth .. only the truth ..
Question : can I use your photo in my next post for today!!!!
Will be something funny !!

Yes Please! You're awesome. Lookin forward to it.

Maybe it can stop if the earnings in a posts are not determined by votes alone?

Something like Google which looks at several other factors to rank sites and not just back links.

But then again people will find a way to game the system anyway!

That is an interesting suggestion. I had not thought of that. And you are right. People will always find a way.

I appreciate this article and I respect your right to share. I don't like the idea of buying votes either and I think it is valuable for you to bring it up. That being said, I will just share this with true kind intentions because I am with you on this. Perhaps it is just me, and my English is not the best. But the way you wrote this made it hard for me to understand some of your ideas and in some areas I didn't know if you were being sarcastic or not and I had trouble following your points. I know you didn't ask for any writing advice and I am not giving you, just letting you know that the way this was written made it a bit challenging for me to follow your points. Again, it might just be a language barrier. Either way, I hope this post gets good traction and helps improve the situation you are addressing. Sending you love, blessings and gratitude. :)

Thank You. I'm just having a goof. Makin up bits. Cracking the wit. Talking out my bum. Gonna follow you to learn who you are and where you from. Because thank you for taking the time to leave a thoughtful message here. All the best.

I do not agree about selling vote either. I am also not too good in English. Anyway I get the outline of mind @jacobts posting. Nice keep steem on ! :)

great post , thanks for sharing vey good content

Votes are definitely being traded behind closed doors. When whales have the power to give $100+ votes then they will gather and use this to their advantage. The trending page is always the same people every single day. I hardly ever see anyone new there. The platform is an amazing idea that is executed poorly. Whales have way too much influence and it really is pay to win. Buy more Steem to become a whale yourself or somehow get lucky enough to attract whale votes from whales who want to help instead of trade votes. I love Steemit but I'm unsure for the future of this platform.

Correct or You can recruit lots of people and if some are large investors they will know you and they can upvote you and you upvote them. It’s a free market right now . I’m a believer that in the long run it will work itself out! There you go a nice upvote for you

My issue is that most of the power is given to whales. What makes their opinion on what to upvote worth more than anyone elses? Just because they hold more Steem they have more influence... just like real life if you have more money you have more influence. It doesn't work itself out. It just gets worse.

The fairy tale is not over, it was never here to begin with. Facts are more interesting than fiction. They create the Satoshi myth and claim a whole new world, to distract the dreamy from participating in the reality of the old market game with new pieces. In general they want the rich always getting richer and boots on the throat of the poor. The goal in life is to appreciate knowing wherever you are. Because even the markets obey nature: What goes up, must come down. What is down, shall rise. RISE HOMIE RISE! Unite with your fellow friends and work together. It is the power that we all have. The rich are working together. The poor need only to turn away from the fairy tales of false hope, to grasp reality by the horns and ride.

Yeah you're totally right , i have an idea that can maybe help people to gain visibility at least a little . I will do a post about that today

Would love to see your idea. Welcome to leave a link to it here when posted.

I'll post the link here. ;)

steemit is still really new. im pretty confident theyll work out the shit storm of buying votes and stuff if enough people make posts like this. the nice part about steemit is that it can evolve. which is lovely. its not surprising that its following other pay to play models right now. after all this whole thing is kinda new but still based in a world built on pretend capitalism. give it time and keep whining <3

Agreed and good points. Thanks for the comment.

throw in some New Age Bullshit by certain....."elements" ;)

Great article. I hope Steemit will find away to keep the new comers.

Thank you. It will. Even if it has to evolve into Pay to Stay. Hope not, but who knows.

The thing is Steemit is like a microcosm of the real world, so there are one percenters which are the whales then there is a medium sized middle class which are the dolphins and then a huge class of the poor who are the minnows or the even smaller red fish, you know what? Steemit is a third world country.

This is such a powerful insight. You summed it up perfectly. Well said my friend. May we march on.

Ahhh, the fuck ton, my favorite unit of measurement. Much love, sir. xx

THIS. made me so happy to see. YOU, are always a joy to encounter. Mucho Amor para ti mi mon amie.

Wow, very insightful post @jacobts and I couldn't agree with you more. Especially now that we are going to see some waves up ahead. I want to see who stays and weathers the storm and who jumps ship. Thanks for sharing.

I love Steemit. Don't get me wrong. I really do. Look, I met powerfully fascinating humans like you, BattleAxe, Seablue, Papa-Pepper, Sykochica, and was kinda star struck to meet StellaBelle. I have been helped out by the Viking himself Fyrstikken and am facinated by MrWang and RichardCrill amongst others. BUT right now we seem to be a Contest-Platform. And that is ok. It's just not what my non-steemit friends are looking for. I thought this was a new social media platform to stay in touch, share beautiful sunrises, and healthy info. It was in the news as a platform to champion free speech. But right now it is contests, pitting us against each other. I am thankful to have won a grant to Steemfest. So I am the pot calling the kettle black. But I know once there, I hope to have an opportunity to remind us of another old paradigm, one that goes back 500 years, the paradigm of IMPROV and Yes And. The watershed moment in my improv career was when Tim Robbins & Cynthia Ettinger were addressing our class and commenting on society, "Our society is being torn apart by the demands of money and the temptations of war. We in the arts give our audiences an opportunity to remember and reflect on our humanity. And it is our compassion for one another that holds the greatest value." I see such a potential for simply living our lives away from the computer and then sharing those stories with one another. I am looking forward to Lisbon to share how we can "Yes And" Appreciate Each Other's Humanity to realize our fullest potential. For now, the contests and raffles reign supreme. And I must Yes And that flow. My next post will be the Greatest Contest on Steemit. Much love to you and yours, may you spend some nice time with family simply enjoying the day.

You are a very passionate person, you write really well and from the heart. I agree with you on everything you say and as you know money is the root of all evil, its breaks apart marriages, friendships, etc. But I tend not to surround myself around greedy people. And you seem to be the same:) We can go with the flow and do our best in life :) Have a great weekend with your family too and thanks for sharing :0)

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This post is way too underated and should be having the full attention of @Ned @dantheman, and @steemit ... i've been wondering also

really good authoring! on point and sharp as a pair of sharp scissors.

Thank You. Be well out there.