𝓡𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓶𝔂 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓯𝓲𝓵𝓮 𝓸𝓴? 💗 @a-0-0

I would be down to work out some sort of alliance to upvote.  Count me in for that.

The interesting thing about this problem is that the lowest denominator is still profitable compared to any banks.

Just voting for curation gives a decent return.  (at least when you are over 1MV, where you get at least 0.001 for just voting)

I remember a time when i had to be lucky, and know what i was doing to get a curation reward.  I got like 0.007 SP per week.

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Now, i am pretty sure what you are asking is what will give you the greatest reward.  But, is that reward you are considering purely monetary?

For me, i feel i would be a great blogger... but i have to get myself flowing and i need a lot more practice (and getting something written each day, so staying on steem where i get paid for practicing is good thing)

For you, i do not know.

I would suggest powering down.  Merely because you can always, instantly, power back up.  However, there are timings in the future that you will really want liquid STEEM.

I believe we will see a spike in SBD to about $10.  It will probably last no more than a week.
STEEM will steadily rise, with some spikes as all the other cryptos spike.

I am pretty sure STEEM will be $10 by the end of the year.  But what is that in comparison to EOS, or LTC, or even bitcoin?

There's already a formalized #thealliance  cluster.... you should call your thing something else because people will get that confused

I think about powering up vs paying for votes. You would need 500k STEEM POWER that would cost like 1.3 mil USD just to have an upvote worth $90.

>Another thing I have discussed with a couple of other people is to formally create an alliance cluster where we all agree to upvote each other at certain percentages based on the amount of Steem Power that the accounts have.

This is something so common here in Steemit nowadays, actually in the "Hispano hablantes" community have been going on for so long... When I found about it I was heavy maaad! Why? Because I felt new users doesn't have the opportunity to grow, but just like you said:

>In a lot of ways that takes away from the premise of voting for "good" content but we have went so far away from that already that it really doesn't matter anymore. At this point it gets more into protecting our monetary and time investment. 

That's the real problem, everyone sees this community as a money maker and that's it. Yeah, I know it helps a lot in your financial situation (I live in Venezuela and when I found out about this it was like a miracle because we have an economic crisis here) but the point is not to put whatever you thought at last minute and that's it. That is really unfair for new users because if they do that everyone is behind them saying they don't belong here because is not "good" content, but that is so stupid because when people here reach a high reputation or become whales start to being lazy about making good content and post dumb stuff, and let me tell you, I don't even read that because it's pointless.
The thing here is, that I truly belive this is going to ruin Steemit, because if new users doesn't give it a chance because they feel is impossible to get an upvote, then this page is never going to grow. What I do is that I introduce new people to the page and help them until their reputation starts to grow (Some of them have better reputation than me! imagine that... And yeah, I know I don't have the a high reputation but well, I'm just trying to help) and we help each other in that process.
Sorry that my comment is really long! haha I just had so much to said about this😂 Greetings!

I have been away from steemit for a while now due to work load at office... And I so miss going through your post....
I'll have to go through your former post @yallapapi to know the connection but just going through your present analysis, I just hope he takes your advice and rearrange his steps.... Steemit is like a community, and you can't go around doing things the elder state-mens frown....
You won't just go anywhere...

I like reading @yallapapi's posts because they are entertaining and informative. To be honest, I am not a fan of circle jerkers or people that complain a lot. I'm just doing what I enjoy to do. For the time being, I like to make content for Steem and use it as a way to practice my skills and build a following before this platform takes off.

People will want more consistent payouts. I previously thought of the upvote cluster thing you mentioned. Basically, a "contract" would be set up between you and others (or a whale) whereby they will put you on an autovoter as long as you both agree to some terms. That's a logical evolution of this platform when you don't have a central authority responsible for paying you or giving you ad revenue.

At the same time, most of the SP belongs to @steemit, @steem and @ned. None of them are active in upvoting content but they delegate some to other platforms like DTube and DLive (which are very active in upvoting content). It would be nice if they delegated more SP to others or became active in upvoting content here .That would allow more people to get a decent payout. 

yes it's all more complex than I thought before... so I just go ahead letting you peek... as long as you like it... 😊 @peekbit

I just recently started dabbling with the voting bots, I don't put a ton of effort into finding the best ones or researching payouts but if I have a post I want to get some attention I'll google "best steemit voting bots" and whateer the first post that comes up I'll send a steem dollar to the 3-4 they suggest. OverallI don't find I get a ROI on my spend but at least it gets a post some attention, I don't do it very often unless it's a post I really like and want to get some eyes on it. The other week I did manage to get a post on the "hot" page about 10 or 12 slots down from the top but that only lasted a few minutes

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