There's a lot of conjecture flying around on cross posting; Uncertainty and thoughts on the pros and cons of it. A lot of the talk seems to be about how it could be good for steem although there's much chatter on the way it could be abused also - How it could be utilised for more nefarious purposes such as incessant cross posting of one's own posts in a bid to gain double reward payments.
A couple days ago I cross posted one of my own posts without realising the voting implications of doing so. You can read about it here and get up to speed if you like.
Essentially I cross posted, got a second round of votes on the same post I'd already earned on, and I felt (feel) that that sort of behaviour, or use of cross posting, is not a good thing.
I spoke to my brother @tarazkp about it and he seemed to think I should put it down to a learning experience and leave it at that, which I did, but I also floated the idea of giving back the rewards on that cross posted post and that's what I decided to do in the end.
I chose three users I'd not engaged with before, gave a 100% vote to each and then transferred 10 steem to each of their wallets. The image below is a snapshot of those transfers from my own wallet.
I also wanted to give them a little more exposure so here they are; I'm sure they would appreciate you heading over to have a look at their work.
@mrhill, @jayjayjeffrey and @manthos.
My brother wrote a pretty good post about the cross posting topic which you can see by clicking here. It talks about the pros and cons I mention above, and other things.
I've seen others write about cross posting also, some of which is simply their opinion, and some of which asks valuable questions or raises concerns. I'm sure you'll find them if you look hard enough.
My 10 cents worth? Well, I'm actually not sure. It's new and still has to shake out although, having said that, I feel there could be a lot of abuse on the way with cross posting-circle-jerks probably already grabbing the KY Jelly and lubing up their hands circle-jerking-hands.
I'll not be supporting users cross posting their own work and will be keeping an eye on the small number of auto-votes I have to ensure it doesn't happen by accident.
What I do know is that I have made an attempt to redress my own cross posting mistake as above and hope that the situation doesn't get out of control.
With 90% of the cross post reward going to the original author I'm not sure if it could be seen as legitimate use of a cross post to do so with one's own posts.
What do you think? cross posting one's own posts...Do you think it's legit and will you be doing it?
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