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> (7:56) "Advertising on Steemit.com really does bring the value."

No. The content. It's the content. Can't have ads without content.

She means fiscal value to support the Steemit staff, not the value proposition of the content I presume

I know what she probably meant but I'm going to throw in the true value of the content here any chance I get, since content producers like myself have been handed the shitty end of the stick around here lately, and for quite awhile. It needs to be said, and some folks around here need to be reminded. So she can read it, you can read it, anyone else can read it.

That's fair as a content creator myself I feel for you. Do you mean based on something Steemit has done or because of the coin value?

Steemit allows members to exploit content ranking. A plagiarist can reach the top slots on the trending page or hot section on their first day as a "content producer" here, while someone who's been here for nearly three years and gets things like this at least once a week...
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...organically, sits way down underneath the plagiarist's post, out of sight, and earns far less than what those who promoted the plagiarism to the front page so everyone can see it, earn.

Now that Steemit earns ad revenue, having content producers with the ability to create something that draws eyes in is far more important than ever before, and they should not be placed under the garbage.

Allow a plagiarist to earn here, all they do is cash out. Cater to those types and it's no wonder the value of the token decreases. I held what I earned and if I'm forced out, that shady behavior again forces another 26000 SP out the door. That's what's been happening. Solid content producers who held got forced out by shady content producers who sell. Think about it.

It went on like that for years and Steemit did nothing.

Is this something Steemit can fix? Is this not more of a problem with Steem? What power does Steemit have to police plagiarism any different from Busy.org or D.Tube? Let me do say though, I absolutely do not support plagiarism nor am I okay with it. Considering the more users that join, the more they spend on servers, and they had to lay off 70% off their staff before, I think it's fair to presume the ad revenue is what would fund their company quite humbly in my opinion. Use Brave browser if you want to avoid ads and earn BAT ;)

You tell me! I don't have time for an interview right now. I've written plenty about what I see as current problems, offered potential solutions as well.

With the coming hardfork, if it goes through, I can see some of these issues going away. With any change though, comes a new set of problems. When I start picking up on them, you can be sure I'll be talking about them.

At this point, it's like yelling at the clouds.

So, Scott. Where in Canada are you from?

Good old Ontario and you? I can agree on that I would like to see Steem improve. Are you a witness?/you should run as a witness.

Majority of us want to see it improve.

Nope, not a witness and that's not the first time someone suggested I do it. I'm thinking about it.

You can find me roaming around Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Awesome, Canadians for Steem! 🇨🇦 You should though.

Once my confidence lost in this project is restored, and I start seeing more of the potential realized instead of squashed, I'll consider it. I've spent enough money and time on what it takes for me to produce the stuff that goes into my posts so I can earn less than a dollar an hour. Spending more is too much of a gamble for me at this point.

Since they have BY FAR the most stake, they could downvote the worst offenders. A 1% downvote from the @steemit account would have the weight of a little over $7. They could hire an intern to sweep away the garbage from trending once a day.

Currently not only is there no danger from abusing the system in this way, it's PROFITABLE in most cases.

They could also just completely dump their current trending page and instead use posts voted on from curation guilds. This would be a band-aid and not a solution, but it would be better than the current situation. It's what Steempeak.com does, but it would be a lot more powerful and beneficial to the blockchain and their bottom line to do it here since this is where all the traffic is. This would also make bidbots as a form of promoting posts less attractive and help with that situation.

They could fix their built in post promotion feature, by having promoted posts show up on trending(assuming they didn't do the last idea) This of course wouldn't be able to compete with Bidbots, but again they could just ban bidbots, by using their stake to flag posts that reach the top of trending through those means. They don't need to track down every single plagiarist, just make sure it's not on the front page.

yep

Absolutely some really awesome suggestions here, maybe I can get an interview with someone in engineering and theoritically go through implementing user suggested changes and why they could or couldn't do it.

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j/k I couldn't help myself. But yea, that would be great if you could make it happen. Good luck!

Ha! I laughed.

Agreed

As the largest stakeholder they should care about abuse, and the community... I mean what is the value of a token with no use case and a shrinking community.

Add to that a broke centralized company. Seems like watching over the value of the token would be a good use of their time.

Never did anyone suggest or imply they shouldn't care about abuse and especially not community otherwise they wouldn't have even bothered to do this interview. They absolutely should and I'm sure they do, but again they had to lay off 70% of their staff, so naturally I'm sure that's not their first priority

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!dramatoken

As if stinc didn't kick out the chocks on abuse.
They still fluff up their golden boys and we are supposed to just deal with it?
Smdh.

Here's your DRAMA. Don't spend it all in one place!

To view or trade DRAMA go to steem-engine.com.

The proposed EIP aims to turn this type of behavior around. That is it's primary goal, to make the behavior that most would like to see on Steem be the more profitable route for people to take.

Yes, I can see, on the surface and in theory, the benefits. I also know, from experience, since we won't see these benefits overnight, many will be in a panic, before things have a chance to progress. Be prepared for that.

I believe in Steem :) We've got to get on a call to talk Steemit soon!

Along with that would it not make sense for Steemit to use its considerable stake to combat the biggest abusers that only it's capable of combating?

The EIP, if all goes well, will help, but actually joining the fight would not only push the changes you want to see faster, but also boost morale for a community that feels like Steemit is arming us with swords to go and fight the monsters while sitting on a stockpile of tomahawk missiles.

What is the logic behind Steemit not using it's stake?

I would assume it's something like people are already accusing them of being centralized so getting involved in the squabbles might cause more problems and make it feel more centralized but I of course would want to see it cleaned up more too

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Well I typically wouldn't want Steemit to jump in the middle of some squabble between users or anything like that, I'm more referring to huge whales simply using Steem as a money printer. As the largest stakeholder, if there's someone debasing your currency I'd assume you'd want to fight against it if you could(and they can), so it's weird that they don't. I can just about guarantee you'd get zero complaints from the community if Steemit started to use their stake to add value to the system. I'd argue that's their responsibility.

Yes and what about when or if people didn't agree? Do they need a set of guidelines, do they have to establish rules and policies and community standards? How long before they have the same issues as Facebook? People will cheer them on when they do what you want, but that could change. Honestly I'd rather the platforms just be platforms and not publishers like Facebook has become and it's a slippery slope. Again I would love if they helped, but I can see it being just as much as problem as them not getting involved. It's the same reason that phone companies do not ban telemarketers from using their phone services.

Don't get me wrong. When I say ban, I don't mean ban in the same way that it would work on a centralized platform. Steemit doesn't have the power to ban anyone in that way, and that's why it could never become like Facebook or Youtube. What I mean is that on THEIR frontend, they could moderate content. This is actually the reason all accounts have upvotes and downvotes, as well as it being the purpose of them.

Because of the way Steem is distributed, there is an "untouchable" class of abusers, that effectively the community can't moderate. Only Steemit could. The EIP is created to help with this problem, but as I mentioned before, Steemit is the only set of accounts that could effectively fight this abuse in the current system or possibly even after the EIP. Banning in the same way as a centralized platform is currently impossible here, as it should be.

To me that just seems to be a function of Steem and in that way it is like an anarchy. I'd support it at least for moderating plagarism. The problem with moderation for like you know who, there really aren't any community guidelines

It is sec related.
Controlling who gets rewards makes steem a security, or some such.

Stinc should give the blockchain its steem and let the witness supermajority downvote abuse, but that might cause steem to live up to its potential.
I think stinc decided to burn this to the ground just before booting dan.

Consider your sources.

If that's the reason, it should be screamed from the mountaintops. At least that way people would know they're not just negligent beyond all measure.

Yes, there are many moving parts in steem.
I was told by somebody that walks softly, but has big credibility.
It's harder playing this as a guessing game, but it does stretch out the entertainment.

When this is where a marketing expert ceo leads us maybe it's better not to know the full truth.
At 800k steem a month they will be gone soon enough.
They can only sell it once.
Let's hope good actors buy it.

And why didn't anyone address questions about this two years ago when linearity was being touted as the next great thing to bring in the masses and make Steem and its tokens more valuable?

Bring the value to what? Steemit.com is awful. And the ads don't bring any value to the chain because the revenue only goes to STINC. And I'm sure it doesn't bring any value to the advertisers, since most of the activity here is probably bots anyway.

So...Adsense "brings value" to websites that have decent web traffic and use Adsense. That's not really a bold or even meaningful statement. She probably could have just said, "Internet advertising can be valuable to website owners." It would have had the same impact on viewers.

She was impressed with the clicks though, even with the problems placed on the front page, for all to see, and look away.

Some of that money could eventually get placed into the hands of the content producer. I'd even be so bold as to suggest an airdrop. Small increments, over time, of that steemit stake, into our wallets, for not being robots. Since they claim to not be selling as many tokens now, what are they going to do them all? What good are they to this economy, sitting idle. And I say small increments, over time, so they don't get dumped on the market instantly.

Some of that ad revenue could go to content producers as well, eventually. Unfortunately, they will make the same mistakes as youtube, and start demonitizing after awhile, for reasons, plus history is hard to remember, and they once again will push people away. I only say that though, because I lost so much confidence over the past two years, watching people drop like flies, as they allowed this place to turn into something like you said, "Steemit.com is awful."

Why not try this?

https://steemit.com/hf21/@ats-david/pto3dw

>Since they claim to not be selling as many tokens now, what are they going to do them all?

Well, based on previous STINC history...they'll probably power them down and use another scheme like @misterdelegation to further dilute the influence of every other user on the platform. You know...use that "ninja-mine" for voting, which they said they wouldn't do.

But we all know how honest they've been over the years. I'm sure the dumping will continue anyway.

I truly hope they can begin to find ways to redeem themselves.

I approve of what you said in that link. I tried talking over there but just got the you're a dumb nobody content producer treatment, which I had a feeling was coming the moment I opened my mouth. Too many good ideas are crushed due to the arrogance of a few and I hope they can shape up, eventually. Anyway, I'm just rambling. Been a long day.

"And the ads don't bring any value to the chain because the revenue only goes to STINC" Lol this is so dumb.

You do realize that steemit inc have to sell 800k steem a month to sustain themselves right ? So any dollar that steemit earned is a dollar that they won't have to sell steem for. So it's helping the price or they can use that money to increase staff to build more improvements on the chain. Which, breaking news, brings value to the chain too.

Or...and this shouldn’t be breaking news...they’ll most likely continue dumping STEEM and squander money like they have been for three years.

Talk about dumb. And you really believe that STINC has “added value” to Steem?

You’re delusional.

Nothing wrong with Content Related Ads If it helps pay the bills man. I am very happy to be earning $100 per month of old fashioned fiat on My youtube Channel... fiat that I can convert to crypto and buy Bitcoin or Steem. Every little bit helps.

I'm not against them.

Nobody would come here just to view ads though. I'm saying, you need content. Right?

Absolutely you need Content. Steem has the best Content there is. Best Photography, best Travel Blogs, Best Digital Artwork, Best Traditional Artwork, Best Musicians, Best Film makers, Best discussion on Crypto, best opportunity to make a living as an Artist, Only way to blog, earn crypto and buy Bitcoin with that Crypto. Steemit has it all... the Best of Everything.

Great interview, I know is hard for Steemit but now they need to focus on SMT...

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Thanks, yeah SMTs are becoming a bigger focus it would seem

Dang this is very cool! Nice job, subscribed!

Thanks so much for your support

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I though they had a percentage of crypto transactions ... it's a terrible business model then, depending on the legacy ad model to generate revenue ...

Steemit isn't Steem so they don't really earn much outside of their Steem and ads. It's working out better for them now

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E leido los comentarios de la entrevista que hizo, ahora bien, si en otra redes sociales que no se gana nada, el usuario pasa horas revisando, escribiendo lo que se le ocurra, publicando imágenes, porque aquí no le dedican algo tiempo en todo lo que hacemos en otras redes..., Al menos, aquí, se gana por muchas acciones de uso y se desligan porque no les gusta la originalidad de contenidos. hacer de esta comunidad algo cotidiano, y mas generalizado, daría mas valor, es lo que creo como también es bueno dar contenidos en spanis ya que la mayoría de los que pueden ser mas contantes en la red, somos los latinos donde hay mucho creadores.

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Hi @scottcbusiness,

awesome Interview! We would love to see your content on 3Speak.Online. We are in Beta right now and our platform is only available to a few creators. However we added you to the whitelist of Steem users that can actually upload videos to 3Speak. Would be cool to have a chat with you on our Discord: Discord.Me/3Speak.

Hope to see you on 3Speak soon.

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Awesome I will join up soon and get sharing :)

https://steemit.com/steemleo/@coininstant/my-letter-to-themarkymark-in-response-to-his-continual-flagging-of-my-account-and-not-hearing-about-my-steemleo-block-from

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Very nice interview. Thanks for your valuable time and guidance on steemit. Thanks

Thanks so much for tuning in :)

It's pretty sad how few people actually care, eh?

Any specific questions you'd like to see asked in the next more technical interview?

I care.

You rock :)

People will care in the future, we are still at early adoption of you can believe it

Yeah agreed

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Does a transcript exist?

No sorry, the beginning is a little choppy, but the connection picks up after that

Is there a plan to mitigate the influence of active state censors on Steemit?

How has the state censored?

Is that even is a serious question?
by attacking

Where do you see that happening/examples on Steem?

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Lol, goldenboys gonna goldenboy,...
!dramatoken

: ) do you really believe he is single bad actor?
that would be nice.
Or should i say, that is a pleasant fantasy. enjoy

I think he is a pawn in a bigger game.

Interesting form of evidence

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Hi @scottcbusiness I have no intention to provide links.
There is plenty to see for those who feel the need to look

I'd genuinely like some to refer to in the next interview and you could get your answer from Steemit.

Lol

Do you mean Steem or Steemit.com?

Steemit.com

It doesn't matter, there are other frontends and the blockchain itself can't be censored

I agree

It was interesting to listen :) I hope we see more videos soon :)

You will I will be trying to set up two more!

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Cool ... and thanx :)

Let me know if you have any questions you'd like me to ask them

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Just tell them @foxkoit is here 101% in.

This was great! I've been hearing some FUD about Steemit from the wider crypto community. This video helped give me some hope back!

Steemit is the best place on earth to earn Crypto from blogging.. Publish0x is a distant second.

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Great interview! Just a small note: rocksDB allows data to be stored on disk instead of in memory (RAM), which was explained wrong in the video.

Ahh well thank you for making the correction! We should do an interview some time

I want to see a road-map of Steemit and steem blockchain in general.

Yes that would be really helpful

Thanks for hosting and sharing @scottcbusiness - I am glad to see that this has now become a featured article. There is an opportunity for steemit and steem to make it. This opportunity has a finite time limited window. The window of opportunity is closing. Other competitor and alternative projects will follow, they will make less mistakes and gain a competitive advantage. Steemit inc and the community should be fearful that we won't capitalise upon the opportunity by moving at a fast enough pace and not being brave and bold in investment decisions. I must say I am worried about the lack of marketing and the lack of presence at Blockchain conferences - done well events marketing should have a massive ROI - I can envisage consultancy revenue from supporting other blockchain projects learning about and leveraging off the steem blockchain. I am looking forward to the new SPS from HF21 this might make it easier for more people to help capitalise upon this finite time limited opportunity.

Yeah I think with their finances getting back on track, we will see them alot more and pushing their marketing harder. Let's hope Steem goes to the moon!

I think Steemit is awesome..I made $40,000 in 6 months.. just by sharing my photography and Art work. I cashed some out to buy some Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum etc.... it’s the only reason I have any Crypto at all. Even with the Ads Original Creative Content is still king on Steemit.com

That's awesome! Another great testament to what it can enable :)

Steemit needs a Youtube Channel , 1,000 Subscribers and start earning $1000 per month from Youtube Ads. To the Moon baby.

Yeah not a bad idea and they might as well capture a bigger audience I mean they have over 100k followers on Twitter and can utilize that

Very interesting !

Thanks, glad you liked it

nice

285 votes and 81 views on video :(

What else to say. What to do with the platform where you can get 81 view if exposed on the trending page for 5 days.

Most people watch it on DTube not on YouTube, so that's hardly representational. The video is there as a backup. That makes sense since people want to utilize Steem and DTube here not YouTube

If you say so... I would understand that it's fine if it's a coin developed for an average highschool.

Yeah let's judge Steem by how well it supports YouTube.

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No... Steemit is the most special snowflake among the special snowflakes that can't be compared to anything. And because it's so special, there are no objective criteria, to see if it's heading towards something meaningful or it's sliding to oblivion.

Lol... Or check some reality, like this numbers, you know, facts:

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Lol, I'm so ignorant, but I'll zoom

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Only -27% per month, 4 months in a row, I mean, lol, what do I know, with my numbers

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Tell us, what is your profession, so we should trust your lols?

Well I can bet that it will go up when BTC halves in May.

You wrote about yourself:

I'm an entrepreneur and social media marketer with expertise on growth hacking, link

But you have no clue that presence on YouTube has anything to do with growth? Interesting... But you are an expert

When I ask Google:

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You are on the Page 7

You have almost 50 Followers, you are growth-hacking beast

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Your YouTube channel is even more impressive, with almost 350 subscribers. You really walk the walk... 350 subscribers is such a growth. Thank god you are The Expert in growth.

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If growth hacking is your profession...
And your expertise is such, and this post is Steemit's representative - great, I'm taking all my liquid Steem to Bittrex.

There is no hope

I'm not a representative, I'm just a content creator :)

Why? Because you attitide is: I'm The Genius, and all the arguments, given by at least 50 people are just, you know, LOL.
So I wanted to check why do you have such a strong Lol-ego

Incredible marketeer, 10.000 followers, 100 likes

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Almost one whole percent conversion is a fantastic achievement

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Cheers

Sure, it's a nice participation trophy :D Guy is following you, great.
Poor Lindsay Shepherd, and Canadian Universities

> Well I can bet that it will go up when BTC halves in May

Today is almost July, and your prediction is for May?
May 2020?

Ok... You are right, ratio will jump from 1 Satoshi for 1 Steem to 2 Satoshis

Every time BTC halves, the price skyrockets, it's not something I care to illustrate as it doesn't affect me if you sell and you're oddly hostile as if I control the value of Steem. Cheers.

Free advice: Stop using lol in every sentence, not cool, bro, not, you know, professional

@scottcbusiness did you just, under your full name/real identity, give prediction for the price of not one, but two cryptocurrencies, for May 2020???

Seriously dude, you either have some really big pack of balls, or you absolutely have no idea what you're talking about :)

I don't usually engage in discussions of this kind, but seeing such a confident statement about something you or any other regular mortal cannot possibly know, without providing any fact-supported arguments, just proves the points @alexs1320 made.

Just to give you a benefit of the doubt, I will ask you a very simple question:

If STEEM is losing its value relative to BTC for the last year and a half for about 15% per month, and about 20% per month during the last 4 months, how much do you think it will be actually worth in May 2020, if/when BTC halves?

I'm not claiming they will 100% be a specific value but I know BTC halves then and I myself will go off that. I see it going up in my own personal opinion and I am hedging my bets against that.

I'm really curious to discover how do you know with such certainty that BTC price will halve in May 2020?

Moreover, even if we take that as 100% truth, in what way is BTC price halving connected to STEEM price skyrocketing:

>Every time BTC halves, the price skyrockets

Since you stated this too with such a certainty, can you at least provide evidence for this, or is this your gut feeling/personal opinion as well?

It is my personal gut feeling dont take my advice

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Wait, you are BSc in IT, and you rely upon - your feelings?
After 4 years of University education, your main tool is - guts?

Not graphs, math, economy, but feelings?!

I just can't be bothered to deal with you trying to cause discourse you don't want to have a debate or a discussion.

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I want to have a debate, but in the real world in order to debate, we need FACTS.

Talking about feelings, guts, gods or astrology is not a debate.

Your statement: BTC goes down (in dollars), Steem goes up (in ratio vs BTC I guess)

My and @scienceangel : Show us the graph

You: no, those are my feelings, and you don't want to have a debate with me

Like talking with a 6 or 96 years old person...

BTC production halves not that it goes down in value, it will go up. I'm not trying to debate you it's my personal financial choice and you both make it clear that giving any price predictions or opinions is horrendous so I'm not continuing. You win 👍

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https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com
Enjoy

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Also this will explain it for you
https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2018/05/29/a-bitcoin-halvening-is-two-years-away-heres-whatll-happen-to-the-bitcoin-price/#6471f4415286
There is even a graph

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Thanks a lot for this interview!

Thanks for checking it out

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Exactly!!!!!! you guys are not the only one that has AWS rip off, bloody expensive I am going through that now because I am building an online resource for secondary education.

Damn Jeff Bezos..... Damn you.

Ahh true. Well I hope you find a cheap solution 😁

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excelente entra aqui:https://veneapp.com/fXo2Ejsq

Amazing, thanks a lot

Thank you too!

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Welcome