Whooooah!! What a read๐๐๐ Pretty bold tagging ppl like that, flags incoming :D
ION,
I think anyone who's wise enough might have noticed some of the things you mentioned... I say, if it's working, keep doing it! Steem is way ahead of it's time, and the focus right now is to have as much tokens as one can inorder to have some influence once the platform goes mainstream someday. Hopefully then we can change the culture..
I hope we can change it much sooner then that. But this is easier. Takes less effort for everyone. Who cares if it makes Steem look ridiculous what wer all doing here.
The content creators simply adjust to what the SP holders want from them which leads to absolute mediocrity across the board.
The SP holders with their actions literally destroy the standards of value and quality established by the wider society. They twist it, deform it until what we all end up with is an absolute abomination of junk and low effort content that creates value for no one but rather only serves the purpose of token accumulation.
But who's to say what is valuable and what is not? What is pleasing and valuable to you may not be the same to me. Also given the kind of communities that are cropping up lately, it's going to be hard to control the kind of content that flows into the platform. If I use Appics and get a $20 post payout, does that make it less valuable or over payed? I think we need to be a little bit more open when it comes to the kind of content we expect from the platform. I don't believe there's anyhting like shit posts anymore, everyone & every content has an audience, you just have to pick what's for you & leave what's not. Same goes to the Steem DApps.
You could say that if determining value came into the mind of any of those that delegated to bots which accounts for almost 30% of the reward pool payouts. You could say that if the vote cap for Dtube posts werent a fixed number and dtube curators didnt just look at a name instead of the content and SP holders werent encouraging quantity over quality.
I can only point to Curie and OCD as big SP holders that arent like that.
If you knew that there was any chance at all that one of your videos could ever get 100-200$ and top the trending page, would you not try to create such a video? But you know the system doesnt work that way. You know that by doing something that would require much more work you would be losing so much money.
There is a cap on payouts for creators that discourages added effort.
You could say "something has value" in the context of Steem for some people but the votes arent driven by that. They are driven by the fact that the VP being at 100% is a waste of money and the post is worthless after 7 days.
Then there are the objective factors to consider which i touched upon as well. If you mumble your way through a video and the way you express yourself is extremely poor while being an extremely aggressive individual that bullied his way into votes, is that value there or is it just racketeering?
What if youre a terrible musician by any known metric, cant hit a tone if your life depended on it, does that provide more value then the 100 quality musicians entering openmic every week?
Those are twisted values because value is not a factor here. Some things are opinion based. You can like one personality more then another but many things you can boil down to objective parameters with which you can determine the outliers from the general population.
What steem did and still does is reward not only the outliers but on the other side does not care who they reward through bots and vote selling.
The values are indeed twisted here.
i feel all the platforms are about gaining the system. just in youtube or instagram is gaining the algoritam and here you are gaining well, kinda, people.
there are thousands of quality photoshop, premiere tutorials on youtube but they go unnoticed because they are not "interesting". something similar is going on here, just there are a lot less people here, so quality is not at the level.
Also i feel dtube as it works at the moment is a daily vlogging platform, because your videos were be there for a moth max, so you are right, no need to make them HQ.