I heard of this site just like you-hype. I was asked by a friend, what I am waiting for, and if I hate money. So I checked out the site, only too see some really sort of content-less posts making hundreds, thousands, even 10's of thousands of dollars.
I'm not so naive to think that I could be so fortunate. I also don't believe a writing of mine is worth so much, I wouldn't really believe I deserve it.
However, I AM quite confident that my content is FAR more valuable, than a picture of a girl in Hawaii, a picture of a girl cooking food, someone introducing themselves, or any of these other silly articles that have comments under them saying “Wow, now this is valuable content!”
Ok, because you say so anonymous account.
So I figured, what the heck, I'll give it a shot, because comparatively, adjusting for some cheating and some of my own bias, I HAVE to think that I can post an article that will at least make me $5.
$5 would make me feel happy. It would have given me confidence steemit isn't a scam. If someone can make $10,000 on an article that wouldn't even make it into the smuttiest most content-less magazine, surely I can make $5.
I posted my first article, and linked to it from another social media site. I had two responses suggest I'm gonna make $10k and $40k. They were excited, I though it was strange to think. I made $.09. Hmmm. I wonder how those to posters feel now.
I KNOW I provided content.
My friend made a post too, and had 20-30 votes, and also basically made nothing, but again he provided valuable content, I'm confident of this. Hmmm.
I posted maybe 5 or 6 more of the articles I felt this crowd might relate to best. Made nothing...hmmmm.
$5k I see for an article about girls having problems getting married. Hmmm.
Isn't it interesting that the content-less articles are making so much? Why might this be? Well its pretty clear as a marketing scam. If the talented articles were getting paid, how could you sell this idea to the average person?
My friend says you have to attract a whale to put equity in your post. That makes it a lottery at BEST. But in a lottery, in order to understand the endeavor, you need to know how many participants there are and be able to divide that by the potential payout structure and prizepool.
I see a 44 page whitepaper, and I skimmed it, but I'm not reading it. Obfuscation. You can't tell me all these people read it and understood it either. I DO see confused players though.
I'm sure there will be a few or many accounts that will disagree. Anonymous posters saying, what, “You don't get it”? Perhaps saying “You just aren't doing it right”?
I see many people excited, but excitement is always only hype.
I'm starting to understand the steam reference here.
There is a simple experiment each of us can do, that no anonymous account can argue.
Make a post with your best content, and see if you make $5. Then compare your content with this post worth $5k: https://steemit.com/life/@inboundinken/we-are-hot-but-still-single-why-girls-from-generation-y-have-problems-tying-the-knot
Then you will know what I now know. Steem-ing pile of $hit.
Pay a network of articles to make it look like anyone can make a ton of money, hype hype hype, make sure those articles look independent and suck, and attract a lot of people that fall for such scams. Make people think they can make money too. But they can't.
Make a white-paper no one will properly read.
Profit.
Get out before the implosion.
Go ahead, test it for yourself, and don't listen to any players below that tell you otherwise.