Blockchain: Gambling for Nerds
Less and less people even attempt to write quality posts. I guess the blockchain has managed again to gather the short term gamblers. The only ones that profit is the House, the organisers. Everybody else is just another lottery player trying to get rich fast.
This is the biggest hurdle for blockchain mass adoption. Nobody trusts our community because it is simply an elaborate gambling scheme no different than the real world. The idealist "better world" stuff is just a marketing promo. All words, no action.
Hmm, then perhaps there's no way around it.
In an ideal world, people wouldn't be lazy, or greedy, or capable of rationalizing away their back-stabbing of loyal and trustworthy people in order to fulfill their desires, but that's not reality. In the privacy of our own minds, we aren't as pure and innocent as we like to lead people on to believe.
Furthermore, let's face it, we're addicted to free, especially free money. Why wouldn't we be? Why wouldn't free giveaways of money draw in huge crowds? Of course it would. Of course it does.
I'll admit it, I prefer to have things handed to me. I prefer to take on little or no risk. I prefer to feel comfortable and secure, like I don't have to put anything on the line, or out in the open, for that matter. I prefer these things, which is why I'm drawn to these SP distribution blogs, which is also why Steemsports gets so much action (attention).
My suggestion is that we not kill the cash-cow, even if it pisses off the minority of people who're willing to put out a lot of energy to compete for their stake. At the risk of coming across as callous, I'll say it anyways: let the whiners leave if they can't accept the collective voice of the market, because the money lies in the majority, not the minority.
Stick with the thing that appeals to the bigger crowd, which may perhaps be the less (intellectually/ emotionally) evolved crowd, but that's where the money lies; that's the consumer market which is the steam to the capitalistic engine; that's where we, as a community, make our money on this platform, IMO...and I could be wrong, but it seems to me to follow logic.
Take it for what it's worth (two cents?).
actually its worth is even less because it doesn't offer anything new than what's out there.
in the blockchain on top of being greedy and scummy you also need to know "computer shit". Even nerds have hard time getting into it.
Let's allow the market to decide worth. Again, we aren't living on ideals here, neither yours nor mine. Reality likes to piss us off.
Also, I don't agree that it doesn't offer anything new. Reward potential without any risk profile whatsoever is an attractive model, no? It becomes even more attractive when we consider that a single Steemsports payout is like 10,000 times the payout of your average "dust" curation reward.
The question here is "how to grow (voting) influence?", and consider now that less than 1 out of 10, randomly chosen, 13+ years old, people enjoy blogging. How to attract? How to retain?
Low effort for reward is a good starting point, IMO. Basing the reward on a topic that is a common interest is pretty much a no-brainier. Enter Steemsports.