something i don't quite yet understand about this website is why are these not acceptable but the "minnow support group is"
what's the difference?
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something i don't quite yet understand about this website is why are these not acceptable but the "minnow support group is"
what's the difference?
A couple people have asked me to respond to this comment. I don't know enough yet to tell you what steemtrails is, but I can tell you what the Minnow Support Project (MSP) is and what the @minnowsupport curation trail is.
MSP is a public community run by 5 witnesses: @aggroed, @ausbitbank, @teamsteem, @theprophet0, and @someguy123. There is a document showing governance that's still new and getting updated along the way as the project grows that's publicly available on the @minnowsupport wall. It's completely free to be there and everything is voluntary. This includes a publicly accessible bot, which costs 0.001 steem/sbd to initially register, and is capable of controlling a community account to vote on any desired post.
We currently have 700 people at the beginning of our 7th day in the Discord room making roughly 1200 votes a day using the community bot. Each community bot/account vote puts about $0.25 onto a new post. A full vote done manullay by me is about $1.60 on a new post.
For people that like the community and want to see it grow there are membership routes accessible to anyone that wants to complete them. It includes joining a Streemian trail and following the bots with your own vote so taht you too are voting on ~1200 different posts by other minnows. It's currently not that much, maybe another 30 cents, but it's more than they were making before. People ultimately come for the bots, but stay for the community.
Lastly, it's actually a horrible money maker from curation. I'm still waiitng another week before first round numbers come in, but because the minnows vote so early on a post, and because the votes are spread through so many very small posts it has to be the worst curated whale (besides a non-voting one). Whatever does get made will continue to stay with the community account, which I'm currently the only holder of the keys.
We're public, transparent, have an operating document, run by 5 publicly elected officials, and everything is accessible and voluntary if you are willing to pay the registration fee required, which is 0.001 steem/sbd. Nearly 95% of any curation profit goes to minnows. There are both posts on the chain, and a series of channels in the Discord that contain all the data to show that this mofo is as legit as they come.
Thanks for your concern.
@benjojo, @berniesanders, #aggroed, @neoxian
There is nothing underhand about the #minnowsupportproject, it does just what it says on the tin. Support for minnows by minnows with the awesome assistance of several generous whales and dolphins. The project is not an earner, far from it, it serves to help the community develop at the lower level, ultimately improving and benefitting the platform as a whole - hopefully by nurturing up and coming great authors that will bring added value to steemit.
thanks for the clarification. there are a lot of "communities" around here and explanations like this go a long way towards transparency.
In this case, this group is making posts of others work and rewarding themselves with $300+ per post. It's nothing but a scheme to make money for themselves and make it look like it's a community effort.
ty for the clarification
Yes, but what is really new about this?
We have all watched these circlejerk schemes day in and day out... since practically the beginning.
So because it's been happening since the beginning it should just be ignored?
@berniesanders - could you please upvote @wetthebeak's comment so that @aggroed's defense of the minnowsupportproject becomes more visible? I have no connection with either of those accounts other than supporting the minnowsupportproject.