@lifeinspired Dude, just came from the @berniesanders post, and I must say I just really wrapped my head around the SBD, STEEM, and Powering UP in the last week. I totally understand what your saying and as a newbie my self I found myself very discouraged about my post in the first week, but after about a month and a half I am picking up some traction! My next step to wrap my head around is the whole delegation of SP, and how these minnow boosters, bots and all that can help curate your post. I see alot of post about upvoting your own stuff, etc, and its confusing to figure out if it is really bad or does that only apply to whales? I know you have heard of the saying the rich stay rich, but we really need to figure out the best way to earn with quality post for us minnows, and not the dolphins/whales out there who are just taking it all in without giving back to some of the newcomers. The only way the #platform can grow more is by seeing incentives for newbies so they can stay and feel like there actually part of the community instead of checking there post every 10 mins to see if there upvotes are coming in.
Hate to see you go, but I will drop you a follow and check back with you to see if you have changed your mind. As I know how important it is to grow a following of real genuine people! Thanks for your feedback here man, and thanks for bringing more awareness as to why, some people will leave the community.
Thanks buddy, you get it. Maybe you can help share this with the other Minnows as well. Again, I’m not here to Whale bash and it surely is sounding like it. BUT I need to be clear, look at it from a Whales perspective too, if I have a ton of minnows hounding me for my Vote 🗳 then that isn’t right either... People should be friends in here because it’s Genuine. ...and honestly hearing someone say “I got another Whale!!!” Just stings my ears.. know what I mean? The whale loses because his friends aren’t genuine nor real, and the Minnow loses because they aren’t truly being themselves and putting out content that is actually interesting and is what they want to write about. Know what I mean? They just keep putting out content that name drops whales 🐳 in hopes of getting votes. That’s not “going viral” like reddit. That’s kissing ass.. and honestly I started to do it myself, then the other night I was like “what the hell am I doing? This isn’t me.” ... and here I am now. Some pissed at me 😤 Some praising my action of bringing more awareness... I see A TON of Value here on steemit and don’t let some of my comments discourage you. I’m not perfect and I’ve been wrong many times before. I just want a more “fair” rewards system for Steemit newbs and those who are starting to invest their money into Steemit.
The Whales Personal ATM (aka Steemit Reward Pool)
Another thing that’s not being discussed is the fact a new Minnow can pay for Steem Power, literally buying it with their hard earned money, THEN a pissed off whale 🐳 could come along and wipe them out with “Down Votes”
Thus pushing their earnings back into the Reward Pool, which the Whale could write a simple little post and make $1,500 right back in seconds. So it’s not something that truly benefits the little guys & gals.
Note: Whales can also do this to other Whales 🐋 Look at @Berniesanders if you think I’m kidding.