(2026 note: obviously this refers to the beta version of the Hive blockchain. I have updated internal links, but not the verbiage.)
I've been dabbling in Steemit blogging for about 4 months now, with a conscious effort toward increased activity and interaction over the past couple weeks, and have several questions that I haven't been able to answer through participation and observation. Can anyone comment below and help me out? If other readers have other questions, comment with those as well and let's see if we can get a conversation going.
Why does there seem to be at least a significant subset of Steemians who are fanatical about 100% power up posts? I know it boosts influence for the author and probably indicates an intent to actually contribute to the Steem society, but I don't get why some posts seem to indicate it's a special virtue to power up 100%, and a breach of etiquette if you don't. Am I getting false signals here?
I still don't understand the need for Steem Dollars at all. I get Steem vs. Steem Power as a set of distinct, useful functions but the Steem Dollars just don't make sense to me, and it feels like an unnecessary complication. Especially when it's tied to a national currency. What benefit does it offer that I'm not seeing?
One of my posts was recently listed as "undervalued" in the daily updates by
@screenname, but what irks me there is that it was probably bots rather than minnows voting in the first place based on getting 180+ upvotes with only a few pageviews. I'm not the only one to notice this.. Is there any solution? I don't like captchas, definitely not for every upvote, but this strikes me as a serious problem in the Steemit infrastructure than need ssome kind of solution.
Is there a way to bookmark or resteem articles that are past their 1-month payout? In my efforts to find answers to my Steem questions, I have seen some posts from several months ago that I cannot resteem. Other than using the web browser bookmark, or sending the URL via an outside message system, there's no way to share old info. This is supposed to be about sharing useful knowledge than it is about making cryptocurrency points, right?
Thanks for taking the time to read through this, and thanks in advance for your participation in the intended conversation below!
If you're not on Hive yet, I invite you to join through InLeo or PeakD. If you use either of my referral links, I'll even try to delegate some Hive Power to help you get started.