Topic: How are some people making $11k on steem? (Read 3256 times)

If you make people money based on someone's blog post, I believe it is honorable to tip your advisor... Those who pay it forward, deserve to be paid back.

Steemit is just a blogging platform, that's why . I doubt they know anything about cryptocurrencies or are interested to learn at all. They just made a post , upload some hot pics and are waiting for the money .

I thought the #boypower make up response video was pretty funny.

https://steemit.com/beauty/@roelandp/the-first-steemit-male-makeup-tutorial-bringing-youtubers-to-steemit-roelandp-is-back

I am sure there are a lot of girls on Steemit that may have enjoyed the girl's makeup video. There are a ton more girls on Steemit than I have ever seen in any cryptocurrency community.

make up videos are cool shit ?

If Stan Larimer thinks it's "OK" for him to exploit girls to line his filthy pockets, why doesn't he post his manboobs?  Fat ass pervert.

Half is available (24hr wait) for exchange, the other half is locked, and it looks like there's a sixth that is designated as steem power, which effects voting and some other stuff. I don't plan on exchanging it--it's house money and there's no sense of rushing out the door as it doesn't allow me to quit my day job and this has some promise (though the usual cc risks apply).

Someone else might be able to chime in who has actually exchanged it.

So like, they paid out you STEEM, and STEEM power, and it was withdrawable with no issues? I haven't interacted with anyone that has utilized the platform to cash out before, can you elaborate on what it was like if you feel like it? Thanks in advance, and you make me want to get off my ass and make this work. I keep procrastinating about my first post, what it will be and how I will construct it. Torn between cooking tutorial and garden tutorial.

I made 500 for a sonnet and it wasn't about steem. What will be really interesting will be when my fellow poets arrive if we can get a pay-for-critique system running--it sometimes takes an hour or more to really delve into a poem's meaning and technical aspects, so on forums it is a labor of love that is mostly rewarded with defensive arguments and troll backlash. Monetizing the process might lead to deeper readings and an incentive to play nice. We'll see....

Give this man a cookie, dammit.

But seriously, the STEEM thing is unreal. Doesn't seem sustainable, but we will see. Might get in there with an article myself. Seems the only thing making money on STEEM are posts about STEEM.

The people who are making money on Steemit have a combination of three benefits:
1) Got in at the start and built their presence organically
2) Have large amounts of Steem Power to dictate the direction theirs and others posts go
3) Have a reputation among the whales

So as of now there are a couple of ways to earn "$250 for a simple comment". You can fight against the thousands of other posts making pennies per post (despite having content similar in quality to top posters) and hope you somehow break through to a larger audience/profit. You can engineer (beg, whore, etc) your way into favor of the whales. You can buy in at the peak of a bubble to hopefully recover your investments before the bubble pops and you are left with nothing.

None of those scenarios sound enticing. I'm going to stick to doing what I'm doing where I'm making steady crypto profits. In the meantime, I'm also going to explain why Steemit is a bullshit scam so others don't waste their time with it only to perpetuate the profits of the dubious whales the top heavy economy favors.

Tumblr (2007), Voat (2014), etc... have had years (Tumblr almost a decade) head start. Steemit has only been out for 3 months. Those comparisons are ridiculous and misleading. I am sure Tumblr, Voat, etc. (insert any social media web site here) did not start off as good as it is today. There is a lot of talk of how to improve the user interface, content curation, the trending/etc algorithms. There are changes being made everyday to how the ecosystem works to make it better. For instance this: https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/177

Anyone can make thousands of dollars on a post. The ones crying about not being able to do it immediately are being unrealistic in thinking that posting content is easy money and Steemit get rich quick scheme. It takes a lot of time and energy to make posts. Only a couple or few posts out of maybe a hundred may get a decent pay out. It is hard work. If you want easy money go to a casino and hope to get lucky. But it does pay off.

I made $250 by simply writing a comment yesterday. You never know when you will strike it rich by getting up votes from a whale or many minnows. The only way to do it is to keep posting. Those that give up will obviously never make anything. Then, people like you guys want to sit and cry that you can't make an easy $10k.... give me a break! Truth is you guys haven't even given it an effort since you're too busy trolling Steem on Bitcointalk.

I had already pointed it out 5 times but let's do it again.  If we use Alexa Ranking, Steemit is nowhere as popular as Reddit clones like Voat.  How could anyone say Steemit is mainstream when it has less users than Voat and other Reddit knockoffs?  As well Steemit has not been providing information like user retention, user attrition, et al.  I imagine thousands of users have already left the website, realizing they can't make $10,000 a post like a hot chick.     Never mind this is a coin where less than 5% of the total supply is available for trading.    There's red flags everywhere for me.

Absolutely not. I remember reading that someone said there are about 13,000 accounts on Steemit. That is absolutely nothing compared to Tumblr, which essentially achieves the same task as Steemit but with a much higher magnitude of quality. Once morons realized they are too late to hop on the train and their investments are only lining the pockets of the whales on top the money will dry up. Once the money dries up the platform is dead because that is literally the only draw to it as of now.

So does that mean Steemit is breaking through the mainstream?  Some of you may frown upon it but by hook and by crook Steemit looks to achieve what other altcoins have failed in.  Maybe they're finally on to something here.

Show me in the benjies this girl got. I want to see 110 of them. I'm skeptical.

I'm not surprised a technical solution yields $7000, if it's advertised a hot female can be rewarded $11k.

This isn't crypto and all y'all know it. It's the problem, far from the solution. Satoshi would be proud!

Didn't see your response here. Anyways, I posted mine in the thread you just linked. Have a ball and write a steem article on it if you want buddy.

I was rewarded $7000 for proposing an algorithmic solution to the problem you lament:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15640772

This all hinges on the assumption that payment correlates to quality. I've made this point before, and I'll make it many more times. The way Steem is set up, you don't see the best content, because the okayest content is the easiest to gamble on.

This is already a phenomenon seen all over social media. Look at Twitter, for example, where the only metrics of success are likes and retweets. Even there, content is dominated by garbage "parody" accounts, who all repost the same stuff. Why are these accounts the most popular? Well, on a platform like Twitter, people are rewarded via followers and notifications for playing a part of the majority. It's the same reason why you only see conservative view points ridiculed and progressive ones hailed. The best content strays too far from the norm to make up the most exposed content.

You can see this everywhere. Hell, look at top movie lists. The Shawshank Redemption routinely lands #1 on user generated lists that consist of voting for what you like. So does Pulp Fiction. Are these the best two movies ever? No, they aren't. So why do they always land on top? Because they are the goodest. Everyone likes these movies. It may not be everyone's favorite, but everyone likes it.

Anyways, Steemit rewards users for contributing to an echochamber-circlejerk. Post a picture with boobs in an introduction post, make a guide on how to use Steem, or talk about how awesome Steemit is. The content can be summed up as that. Nobody is going to make an in depth post on politics. Nobody is going to write a novel. Nobody is going to explain a mathematic theory. Why? Because although this would be the best content, it won't be rewarded. People aren't looking to help out the best, they are looking to help out what qualifies, because more people can agree on that.

I would bet that the most brilliant people in the world, under anonymous identities, would not garner publicity or money with a post in their respective niches, regardless of how profound it is. I would also bet that these same people could make money if they instead used a fake identity as an attractive-but-relatable female and post about the same clickbait garbage that everyone else is.

that's not the same thing. Getting $30k to post garbage is a dream of everyone who browse internet forum, social media. It should be everywhere you go.

Website has thrown multiple error, I haven't been able to cashout my $3 that I earned for signing up because it told me I needed 10x more before I could cash out.

I truly don't know what to make of this since it's pretty horrible looking set up altogether.

Yesterday it was some guy with make up who made 20k

Day before it was some girl who copy/pasted her old post and made 30k

Today it's some guy who copy/pasted link to an article and pulled 16k (still growing).

It's either a well played scam or just horrible marketing team and set up.