Great rant that hits the nail on the head. Trending on Steemit is such a pile of garbage. I hope palnet will be able to flourish and do things differently that the current thievery going on. I do have a question though, you mention voting for yourself a couple of times, like it's a bad thing. I agree if you're a whale and producing garbage just to vote on yourself with a thousand duplicate accounts. Yes, that's a very bad thing for the rest of us trying to create content and survive. But I vote for myself all the time. Sometimes I wouldn't have much else, lol. I believe in my own content and know the effort I put into it. And it's only worth a couple of cents anyway. So I hope you were talking about those aforementioned assholes sucking up the rewards. Is there a harmful reason why I shouldn't vote for myself, that you know of?
The self voting I'm talking about are the ones spamming junk 10 times per day and ONLY voting for themselves. I self vote, but 90% of my votes go to others because without them, they get less, and leave.
1-3 post myself each day which of course I am going to self upvote. The rest goes to good quality comments on my posts and then I curate
Imagine a world where actual content producers didn't have to curate but instead only upvoted comments to give content consumers a boost in the reward department. If we had enough content consumers, and they knew that was the world they were entering, the content producers could focus more on their craft. Today, I wanted to post the artwork I spent a good seven hours working on yesterday. Could have posted that but the next guy comes along and buys votes for something like a daily exercise report card and makes me look foolish for posting that much work here. Some of these musical performance posts can take days and days to produce. No listeners and ten cents? They're better off busking on the street.
A successful content producer in that scenario wouldn't be cashing out every last dime either. Only a small percent each year would leave. At least, that's how I had planned to run my business here starting back in 2016. The value was supposed to rise as those billions poured in. Now I don't know what the hell to do.
Now palnet May have a chance at solving some of Steem’s problems, with the palcoin. I’m excited about it’s potential, and have invested in it. What’s your take thus far?
I want to see it succeed. They skipped me for the claim drop though so I'm not able to contribute as much as I wanted to in the form of curation. I wasn't prepared to buy and stake either. Right now I'm seeing a lot palnet posts. Looking forward to seeing what the place will look like once people start producing actual content.