If you want to 'promote' your content, I invite you to check the promoted tab and the promote button at the bottom of every article, instead of sending your SBDs to market manipulators.
I understand it's a nice feeling to get people to read your content. I enjoy the visibility from my articles too. However you need to understand I had to work my way up, network with people, add value to the network (mostly by coding), to grow my follower base organically.
Seeing some losers who capitalize every word in their buzzfeed-like titles going #1 trending in 2 hours by spending money isn't exactly fair competition. I'm sure most people agree with me.
If I understand the promoted option correctly, you are paying steemit.com to promote the content on steemit.com only... right? I think you can understand why most advertisers would prefer to promote their content on the blockchain rather than with a single block explorer.
You didn’t address my point. All that coding and you ignore the main problem which is the centralization of SP. Look man I agree the trending page is trash. I’ve been saying it this whole time. But that’s the system that we have now.
Unfortunately the system also allows for you to organize a group that uses methods other than you and people on your team circle jerking each other to downvote competing content “for the good of the platform.” Nothing any of us can do about it unless we want to kiss some ass as well. I’m sure most of the people who agree with you will be happy to oblige.
@heimindanger, I've only gotten involved in Steem within the last year, although I've heard references before to these early distribution issues. I'd like to learn more, since I think fair distribution is extremely important to the long-term health of an ecosystem. Do you know of any posts or in-depth descriptions of the early distributions and any problems that may have had?
And now he is offering a service that allows people to increase their SP and get exposure for their content without having to participate in the massive circle jerk culture that exists on this site.
You’ll always have people that exploit the system as long as there is money to be made. It happens on literally every platform. This place has literally no rules, so just like nobody could stop him, nobody can stop you from controlling this platform by strong-arming people into following your rules. Rules which obviously benefit you and people close to you at the expense of new users.
No problem. The system is set up to allow that to happen. But you’re only going to make the culture/content on here WORSE - because now instead of there only being an incentive for writing happy wow Steemit is so wonderful posts/comments, you are setting a precedent where non compliant posts will be flagged “for the good of the platform.”
If this has all these bid bots then he doesn’t need our money to increase his stake on here. He can just upvote his various accounts if he wants to print more money. But by offering a bidding service, he allows users to increase their own stake without having to align with any of the factions on here that claim to know best. It’s not likely that anyone will reach whale-status, but at least they can derive peripheral benefits like a small overall profit, increased SP and an increased audience for their work.
But that “wouldn’t be fair” to you poor people with plenty of SP, influence, and a network of buddies who already promote each other’s work at no cost. Wow i feel so bad for you. $200 with no promotion at all. That’s just awful. All that contribution for nothing. Better push your anti vote bot campaign hard before new people come along and level the playing field.
Somebody grab some ice for that wicked burn.
I appreciate the tool and the attempt to clean the trending page. But I have to double down on @yallapapi's question. And I'm saying this as someone who does not appreciate his approach to the trending page, but respect his right to speak up his mind.
Yes. We had to work and now they flag our work away with their paid votes. When you look closely, you can see how those paid votes are the exact same thing as flags. People could go around and flag away the competition for free and it would have the same effect as paying for votes. Many people here, established members, people who worked hard; they're leaving because months upon months of effort are being flagged away.
"I invite you to (waste your SBD for no effect)"
Fixed this for you. Christ, you are naive.