A popularity contest will always bring out the manipulators. This is true in everything, everywhere, all the time. The fix for the platform is two fold: Add a tipping button so that good content, in the

The Right vs. Left argument is the wrong argument. We are all humans mostly just trying to get through our lives in the best way we know how... that pathway may be different for some than for others...

Putting excess funds into USDT and DAI just makes sense... negative interest rates are going to hit sometime or another, probably sooner rather than later. And if one already has funds sitting on the

I'm a psql fan myself. While stuck with the kids home from school.... I've been helping my kids learn how to make neat projects with both the RPi Zero W and Arduino Uno.

However, I can understand the strategy behind the 20 STEEM change. If you think about Youtube, before you can earn any profit The bar is too high to reach unless you've already bought into the system.

Curating manually This is work. Work is to be avoided. Thus the bid bots exist.

If you are a redfish: don't bother commenting on anything. But what if we like commenting? Then what? use bid bots like crazy. I thought bid bots were going to be going away because of the decreased financial

With things like Patreon... BAT Tipping Jars are going to replace services like Patreon due to greatly decreased fees and ability to tip lower amounts. A 1 BAT tip results in a 0.95 BAT deposit into a

At the moment, you are barely visible... Soon you are going to disappear off the radar completely. The message of HF21 is Steemit doesn't want new users.

For instance, when @knircky just gave a full downvote to my comment I'm sure it mostly reflects his desire to see criticism of the fork get more attention and rewards Yes... but then you Upvoted your own

Free Market... Yup. That's what it's all about. And if the reward bar is set too high for new users, the new users will simply not be here. What's the point in posting on Steemit for $0.02 a week (maybe...

That's what I kinda figured too... There will be drama, as always... but beer and popcorn are better. I'm currently looking around at the .eth TLD. I'm waiting until September/October to start setting

Two transfer fees are not cheaper than one. ETH is cheaper to move around than BTC in general, so smaller investors are very likely to have most crypto in ETH rather than BTC. It's clear that Poloniex's

True. But the BTC fees are quite high. So, anyone with a small amount of investment interest or income will avoid buying. In effect, the off ramp from Steem is being kept open for large investors... and

and the evidence remains in the blockchain making liability easily provable.... that evidence filled blockchain is likely to be deleted when the witnesses move on. But... The blockchain is a public ledger

I use GNU Octave very often... both personally and professionally. I'd also like to add that the FSF accepts donations in crypto currency... Disclaimer: I'm a non-professional associate member of FSF

Steemit is fundamentally different than FB and Twitter. It runs on a blockchain. Every user action on Steemit is recorded on the Steem blockchain. Writing these records uses real resources provided by

Steemit is quite complicated as a platform. The resource limitation is necessary to prevent bringing transactions on the blockchain to a stand still. The concept of Steem Power is probably the only reason

You might get more coins if you add neoxian tag as your first tag on your posts.

If you look carefully at some of the very fast growing accounts on steemd ... You will notice a common theme... the fastest growing accounts buy most of the votes and then in turn delegate the return on