Flagged as repetitive. In case I'm accused of doing this to take sides, I also flagged the @dollarvigilante post that is the subject of this one. There is just too much circlejerk. What will make Steemit better is writing good posts about interesting things, sharing them, and getting upvotes, not post number 562 saying the same things about Steemit itself (positive or negative).
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ok, so why do you upvote this post? https://steemit.com/steem-help/@hisnameisolllie/steemit-the-economic-system-and-where-the-money-comes-from Is that your vision of something "new" ? This would be post number 563 according to your numbers, the same things again and again... but this post curiously has 2.4k within 2 hours because you and dan voted, aha. I get you, live by the sword, die by the sword. But don't stick to your own rules. That's just unbelievable. You just made your own argument worthless after 2 hours.
I had already removed my upvote from that post prior to reading your comment.
Cool, sounds easy. Should be easy to remove your downvote from my post as well. Thank you in advance.
ok, obviously you saw my comment and pulled your vote. Bad conscience? suddenly only 1.4 left. Anyway, have a good day and thx for the convo, enough said.
So repetitive posts will be downvoted per se. Interesting. Do you mind to show me where this post is repetitive? Where's its predecessor? The post is an objective personal opinion about a post which I believe is inappropriate. It has nothing to do with steemit. And many others share the same feelings as you can see. And please let everyone decide which topic to chose, this is not up to you. Or is it?... by the way: check the comments please. The post was obviously interesting, I shared it and I got upvotes.... let people decide what they vote for, this is exactly where censorship starts.
Automatic and every single time? Of course not! But when I look at Trending and see five posts on basically the same topic all getting high rewards then yes it is repetitive and harmful. You are certainly free to post and nothing is being censored, but it won't necessarily be rewarded a lot either. No one has a right to the latter.
Thank you for the quick response. Ok, I see, so you're more worried about the posts getting high rewards than being repetitive. Pretty simple, if my post would have been at 100$ you wouldn't even care, even if it is repetitive. If there are for example 5 posts with a similar topic it's obviously something people want to see and read, otherwise there won't be any votes. Let the market decide, demand and supply. Why is that so hard to accept. I created that post only because I felt it was needed, it was my choice. Please respect it. I didn't even know there was a similar post out there and surprise surprise: Many appreciated it - wit their votes and comments. Do you really think everyone should check if there's something similar out there before you post something? Seriously? Probably a good solution though, otherwise everyone is running danger to get flagged by you 'cause you're annoyed. Come on man. Why should this be harmful? Didn't we have enough posts about recipes for brownies with steemit logos on them? Still they get high rewards... any plans for that? I hope not, leave it to the people. There will be tons of double postings, countless similarities, this is a natural thing, you can't do anything against it. There's no reason to do anything against it. That's what we call evolution. Leave it to the people, the voters, otherwise it's similar to a dictatorship. It's just you, you said it's repetitive, you said it's harmful (don't even know why), so it's only up to 1 single person, to you in this case, to cut down the rewards for more than 280 voters. This is an insult against all the steemians who took time to post a comment, vote for it and follow it. They spent their time to read the post and think about a reply, not all of them but many. You make it worthless within a second. Jesus. That's what I call abuse of power. Prove me wrong. Your stage.
That's all we are doing.
Don't play dumb. You and everyone is well aware that these same topics on Steemit rewards, who gets them, how to get them, etc. have been played and replayed for weeks and months. It is not something you need to go and check.
The problem with this argument is that most of reward didn't come from most of those 280 voters, it came from a relatively few with large influence. Live by the sword, die by the sword. It cuts both ways.
The reward algorithm is designed to produce the largest rewards when the subjective value of a post has consensus, meaning a large number of stake-weighted votes all agree it should be rewarded. I disagree, so there is no a high degree of consensus here, and the rewards are accordingly reduced.
Please post quality content on topics that add new value to Steemit instead of recycling the existing value of Steemit with more discussion of Steemit. I will happily upvote that and perhaps others will as well, bringing you high rewards.
The "circle jerk" is a natural phenomenon in the crypto token life cycle. Bitcoin was the same way, but worse, for the first several years. Every day on Reddit the front page was all articles on why Bitcoin is great and articles about merchants accepting BTC to legitimize it to the mainstream. The short-term incentives with crypto-tokens are such that everyone in the community wants to champion the virtues of the token . This is very natural and I actually think its not as bad on Steem thus far because Steem Power better aligns long-term incentives (so the ST price of the token isn't talked about as much).
While everyone can do their best to not encourage it, my view is that its inevitable and it's not something to worry too much about.
I'm not worried, I'm downvoting (and upvoting non-circlejerk posts). Long-term incentives, as you say.