Check out this presentation from Matt aka @yabapmatt on steem
Matt runs a witness and also the the creator of most of the voting bots active on steem. He is also the creator of https://steembottracker.com/ and has done a fantastic job explaining how to help boost your success on steem with his and other services.
This presentation was given at the 2nd steemit meetup in Philadelphia.
Check it out!
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Nice presentation!
You know I'm not a fan of bidbots Matt @yabapmatt so now that you're presentation is shared by my buddy from the uni I have to to comment it in any case :-)
With regards to bidbots what I still miss on Steem is a clear differentiation between content and advertisement. On any other platform in the world ads need to be clearly marked as such, except on steemit.com. So that's something that has to be fixed quickly in the design of the User Interface.
I agree that paying for votes is an opportunity for content creators to make their posts more visible, but it's actually against the original vision of Steem according to that value is given to those who create value.
With votes being for sale, value is given to those who have the largest stakes, thus money will be kept in hands of very few. That's why these vote trading services won't contribute to effective growth in the long run.
Also there is a lack of control with regards to spam and copyright abuse. We talked about that already, Matt. @minnowbooster recently published a good strategy in that context, also @themarkymark is doing much efforts to reduce abuse. @steemcleaners can't assume the responsibility for any type of abuse on this platform, and we're all in charge to check the content we're upvoting - even if a bot is doing it on our behalf, and especially if our votes are able to boost content to the trending page where it's gonna be visible to thousands of users.
I'd love to see much more projects like @curie and @communitycoin for instance. They really help to promote quality and make content a priority of Steem. It seems that SMT Oracles will also contribute to that aim, that's at least what I get from Ned Scott's latest statements.
Promoting high quality content and using it as store sign for the Steem blockchain will be the only way to make the brand Steem become valuable in the space of decentralized content distribution.
That's at least my unimportant opinion about it :-)
Marly thank you so much for your input and feedback.
Like you I don't love the bots and have rarely used them in order to do the voting myself.
I consider it one of my key responsibilities to upvote as well as my privilege.
Also thank you for your upvote, they are always a special treat to me.
I personally have been on the fense with these bots. I understand that some investor may need to be able to buy steem and put it somewhere without doing daily work. I was recently at a meetup where I met a hedge fund that has lots of steem, and for them it would almost be unethical to vote. So for them the bots are awesome it is awesome. They get to make money on their investment without any work. That may increase investment into steem. So I see the financial aspect to it from both perspectives. I don't see how bots can go away or how to design steem in a way without them. Do u have any ideas?
Like u i wish there was a way to just count “real” votes and use this to evaluate and reward content. I think these buying of votes distort and corrupt.
However the financial side of things is also helpful, because online on twitter where we can literally buy votes or followers here the meaning is different and always requires investment. If not then the design of steem has issues overall. I a would be curious to see what Dan things of this and what he has in the back of his mind to re-design this economically.
I wouldnlove to chat with you about this some time and get ur perspective on how this could work.
Again thank you for all the wonderful things you have been doing here.
P.s. congrats on making it to the front page the other day with you steem story and congrats on doing it without buying votes.
Much love!
Resteemed to my 3100 Followers. I think everyone should see this video, thanks for pointing me to it Philipp. Wie gut sprichst du eigentlich deutsch, wenn dein Bruder in Deutschland lebt? Ich habe deine meetup speech gesehen.
Besser als die meisten anderen sprachen!!!
Dtube never works for me and the others I have not tried yet. I just wish they could make dtube work for the rest of us
Thank you for sharing. It was good to know, I have to check other platforms.
Really great explanations from Matt. He captured some really subtle nuances. For example, the part about the delegated STEEM for these Steem spin-offs (D.tube, etc.) -- as i understand it, these spin-offs have powerful accounts of their own with a lot of Steem Power, and are going to use that Steem Power to upvote user content. As Matt noted in his talk, as long as your content is "not horrendous," you could be surprised at the economic potential... Makes me want to check out Zappl and other sites...
https://steemit.com/respect/@kona9918/my-favourite-person-philipp-knirck-my-sr-my-life
i respect you my sir, visit me. thanks
This presentation gave a very helpful and informative overview. . . I kinda checked out of the #steem ecosystem from November 2016 to November 2017 and it's amazing how much it changed in the interim, so this helped me catch up :)
Glad to have u back. Can u let us know what made u leave as well as come back?
I didn't consciously leave, life just got in the way - I changed industries, then changed jobs, all while moving and fixing up a broken down house and helping the family adjust to the new environment. Things quieted down around Thanksgiving last year, so I logged in again to see what was going on. It's great to see the community has expanded and changed so much in such a short period of time, makes me happy to have been a relatively early adopter!
good dtube post thank for shearing
Congrats on yet another milestone with the followers! I hope I can make it there one day!
I think it would be better for Steemit and your channel to post your videos here at first and after 4-5 hours to dTube, so they'll get more attendance here..
I don't think you quite understand how DTube works ;) As soon as you post on DTube, there is automatically an entry on Steemit as well since it both relies on the same blockchain (STEEM).
The only way he could do what you want is uploding it somewhere else like YT, then making an entry on Steemit linking there. But when he publishes on DTube a few hours later he will have a second entry on Steemit.
So it is neither practical nor can I see any sense in doing so :D
believe me I tried.....
I had to upload it over night for it work. I tried for 2+h yesterday and I still could not upload it.
Checking it out.
Thanks for the advices. I try it step by step. Have a nice day!
Yea its a little sad this way
Gonna watch this later - But I love how you have those presentations going at the meetups. The meetups I know where rather just sitting-together-and-talking (which was nice, but a mixup could be great too)!
I’ve been following you on YT and just discovered your page here on steem. Thanks for all the great content, especially the lectures, to help me better understand blockchain, bitcoin and now steem!
this is good information to make stemians more advanced and growing and increasingly able to eradicate poverty. good post @knircky
Zappl, DSound and Steepshot I didn´t know about, but I must say that I really like their concepts and I´m about to use them too.
Keep up this great presentations that explains a lot about STEEM, Steemit and a lot of new sites that are being developed in the blockchain.
Thank you for collaborating with me to promote this post as explained at https://steemit.com/steemit/@jerrybanfield/10-ways-to-fund-a-steem-growth-project.
This is outstanding one !
Informative video. I like how the presentation explains the different sites connected to steemit and what those sites are. Thank you for posting this video.
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