RE: Community Question: If you're an investor who actually buys STEEM, does the popularity of "pick games" attract you? by noisy

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· @noisy ·
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No, because it discourage real bloggers, which do not want to buy votes, and they just want to write good article. Good content is what brings new users to the platform, because good article can save me hundreds of dollars if it will teach me something.

Also, few cents will not convince any serious adult to join steemit, because he can easily earn 100 hundreds times more in an hour, and thanks to that he can easily invest in STEEM as serious person.

Since SteemSports is constantly on trending page, I have a problem to bring new talented users on the platform, as I did with @zuch.media, @cwbrooch,  @kambrysia or @lukmarcus, and many others. They are just seeing, that this place right now encouraging more bribing your readers , rather than real work and time spent on preparing and writing great article.
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@krnel · (edited)
E.X.A.C.T.L.Y. Thank you for chiming in with great feedback. Steemit will not do well if we let this continue. @dantheman knows it. I have in depth analyses int he works, so hopefully more people will come to understand the issue with clarity instead of personal blinders blinding them.
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@ats-david ·
>No, because it discourage real bloggers, which do not want to buy votes, and they just want to write good article.

There is more to a social media platform than just "bloggers." Here is an excerpt from [my own blog post](https://steemit.com/steemit/@ats-david/content-crusaders-the-fight-to-save-steemit-will-fail) that nobody arguing against these types of posts apparently wants to acknowledge:

>I am offering the community a way to earn rewards that they may otherwise not earn. They also have an opportunity to earn these rewards without having to create their own blog posts. For all of the users out there who do not wish to write blog posts, this is a great opportunity for them to increase their stake on the platform.

>Not everyone wants to be a blogger – and the bloggers here need to wake up and realize this. Without a large amount of people reading, voting, and engaging, you won’t have much of a platform. Giving people incentive to engage – even if it’s minimal and not your preferred method of engagement – will help draw them in and keep them here. Earning money is the big draw for Steemit. My posts offer that to readers without requiring much effort from them and without needing to be a professional blogger and subject-matter expert, like some people apparently believe all Steemit users ought to be.

And regarding this:

>Since SteemSports is constantly on trending page, I have a problem to bring new talented users on the platform, as I did with @zuch.media, @cwbrooch, @kambrysia or @lukmarcus, and many others. 

I would suggest talking to these friends of yours and telling them what you already know - *that Steemit has much more to offer than a few posts on top of a "trending" page.* I don't know of anyone myself who looks at a page for a few seconds and says, "Yeah, that site isn't for me. I couldn't possibly make any money." If they really *are* doing that and not giving it a chance, then you're not doing a very good job of onboarding them. 

Frankly, I have a hard time believing that everyone avoids adoption because of a few trending posts. I think there are far more important and fundamental issues that need to be resolved or improved.

>They are just seeing, that this place right now encouraging more bribing your readers , rather than real work and time spent on preparing and writing great article.

If that's how you're explaining it to them, then I can imagine that this is how your friends are seeing it and it would explain why they don't want to join. The issue here is a fundamental misunderstanding about how the platform works. Highly-influential stakeholders are voting on posts and content that *they* believe adds value to the platform and, in turn, will add value to their stake. You can call it "vote-buying" or "bribery," but it is nothing more than a subjective valuation made by those stakeholders and their votes represent their preference for content, use-cases, etc.

Now, you and others may disagree with how these stakeholders are using their vote, but rest assured that their votes would not otherwise consistently go to low-quality content. Most likely, those votes would just be concentrated on other popular users that have been frequenting the trending pages for months, which led to the idea of "distribution" games (and curation groups/guilds) in the first place. 

In short, there is no "equality" or "fairness" for rewards here. The rewards are allocated based on stake-weight. So, there are essentially three things you can do about the content that you don't like:

1. Ignore it. Find what you do like and go support it with your vote. Power up if you want your vote to be more influential.
2. Flag it and give yourself the reputation associated with that.
3. Continually complain about how unfair everything is and that you don't think certain people are earning enough for their content.

I can tell you that 2 and 3 will likely only result in you having your own content ignored, earning even less rewards, or getting your own content flagged. My suggestion would be to try to understand how these different games and use-cases can actually benefit the platform and the STEEM economy, rather than continue to denigrate everyone and everything because you don't recognize the potential short or long-term benefits.
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@sigmajin · (edited)
>I am offering the community a way to earn rewards that they may otherwise not earn. They also have an opportunity to earn these rewards without having to create their own blog posts. For all of the users out there who do not wish to write blog posts, this is a great opportunity for them to increase their stake on the platform.

Can you explain exactly what this opportunity to "earn rewards" is?  Because it seems like you aren't really grasping the meaning of the term "earn".  or reward for that matter.

What youre really offering is an opporunity to get rewards for nothing... which kind of makes them not earned and not rewards, if you think about it.
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@ats-david · (edited)
They "earn" rewards like any other game, contest or "faucets" that currently exist. They participate and have a chance of "winning." 

I know some people don't like this, but that's not a problem with me or the participants. It's a problem with those users who believe they should be able to dictate how other people are "allowed" to use their votes. 

Some people "earn" from blogging. Some people "earn" from curating. Some people "earn" by participation in games. I'm pretty sure that this platform can be inclusive for all of the various ways to "earn." It isn't actually costing *you* anything, so what exactly is the problem?

>What youre really offering is an opporunity to get rewards for nothing...

For nothing. Right. 

Good day.
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