RE: A CHALLENGE FROM @papa-pepper FOR THE WHALES OF STEEMIT
Hmmm, well that's sort of a bummer for folks like myself. I have only tried promoting one of my posts and it didn't seem to really help at all but I felt like my money is better spent promoting other peoples posts who don't seem to be getting noticed at all.
To me, creating quality content should be enough. It is a little irritating to see really good posts that people have spent an obvious effort on get below a buck when other posts that are made by people with high reps but contain one or two lines make $30 and $40 bucks because everyone dog piles the upvotes knowing there will be popularity. The more I look at things and read peoples content the more I'm seeing the skewed system.
This post should irk a lot of folks...shouldn't working hard to provide content be enough to get rewarded? We have to pay to promote the posts too? Exactly where does it go when you send money to null? Feels a bit pyramid schemish all of the sudden. Please, tell me I'm wrong.
I felt like that for a long time too, and have seen similar things with votes and posts. That's why I never used to promote and am now trying to encourage people to at least look at what posts are being promoted. If authors work hard, it should be enough, but we know that not everyone can get noticed or get paid well. Of course, at least getting paid for our posts is an option here. When authors not only invest time and effort in posts, but their hard hard earned $$$ into it as well, I think it would nice for people to at least take a moment to check the promoted page to see if there is anything that they like.
Working hard to provide content "should" be enough to get noticed, but things take time. Again, this is the only platform that has ever paid me for my content, so for that I am most grateful.
Also, when SBD is used to promote posts and is transferred to null, it is basically burned and gets eliminated from existence.
I thought that the whole idea of promoting posts was strange when they came up with it, but people use it.
If you noticed, my 100% upvote just rewarded your comment 1 cent.
By itself, my full power upvote has never been worth more than that. Lots of us here wish we could reward others more, but lack the capital to invest in the platform to raise our Steem power. That's why I often run contests and give away steem, plus I sometimes give out "WILDCARDS" on posts and comments and reward people out of my own pocket for their effort. I've even anonymously promoted others posts too.
My recommendation would be to keep it up, and try to remain optimistic.
There may not be any guarantees on steemit, but there is possibility!
I think it's still such a young platform, still in beta, and they are still working the kinks out, that it does warrant sticking it out and staying positive. I am still trying to learn the ins and outs of everything myself. I would love to see it do well just for the sake of the creativity that I've seen. I hope that the rewards system can get worked out a little better to where there are no questions of fairness and it doesn't seem shady to newcomers. When you really step back and look at what people contribute from all over the world it's astonishing and it makes me feel like I'm a part of a real grassroots community.
Let's hope 2017 brings good things for Steemit and all of the Steemians!! Happy New Year!!
Well said @alohaoy!
Happy New Year!