How are some people making $11k on steem?

[BigSirko]

Just out of curiosity, where is steemit userbase coming from since their original thread has only 31 pages, twitter has only 1000 followers and facebook has less than 1000 followers?

 

things aren't adding up for me here. More I dive in, more complicated it gets.

The people falling for the Steem trap aren't crypto people. They are normal people who hear from word of mouth that "This girl just got paid $11,000 for having tits on this site called Steemit!" Then they say wow! and they make a few posts. Then they realize they don't have tits and, as such, don't get any money. However, every now and then one of them does have tits, and they tell their friends about their success.

At this point Steem is basically the titcoin meme that Pornhub made a video about. I'd be absolutely embarrassed if I were an investor of this fraud.

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.

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.

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.

[CoinHoarder]

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.

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.

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.

[jeffthebaker]

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.

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.

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 the other day. 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!  

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.

[CoinHoarder]

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 Wrong. I just started 2 weeks ago and have made over $850.
2) Have large amounts of Steem Power to dictate the direction theirs and others posts go Wrong. I started with the amount of SP they give you when registering (I think $10 worth)
3) Have a reputation among the whales Wrong again. I am yet a lowly forum troll like you.

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. This is a nice strategy... one that has made me and others hundreds to thousands of dollars. If you want to cry about it not being easy to do, then simply don't use Steemit. Do you really need to cry about it on Bitcointalk for eternity?

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. You can't tell the future. Many people thought Eth was a bubble when it was much lower in market capitalization. Steemit has much more use than Ethereum at the moment, and is growing much quicker with a more broad userbase.

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. It is sad that you could be the reason someone doesn't try Steemit and make hundreds of dollars like I have. I hope you feel happy with yourself? Good job, you cost them money (assuming they gave it an honest effort and don't quit and cry after being unsuccessful for a day or two.)

[GreenBits]

How are people making $11,000 on STEEMIT?

By posting cool shit there instead of here.

Next question.

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.

[generalizethis]

How are people making $11,000 on STEEMIT?

By posting cool shit there instead of here.

Next question.

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.

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....

[GreenBits]

How are people making $11,000 on STEEMIT?

By posting cool shit there instead of here.

Next question.

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.

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....

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.

[generalizethis]

How are people making $11,000 on STEEMIT?

By posting cool shit there instead of here.

Next question.

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.

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....

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.

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.

[DecentralizeEconomics]

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.

[Cboy]

How are people making $11,000 on STEEMIT?

By posting cool shit there instead of here.

Next question.

make up videos are cool shit ?

[CoinHoarder]

How are people making $11,000 on STEEMIT?

By posting cool shit there instead of here.

Next question.

make up videos are cool shit ?

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.

[Cboy]

How are people making $11,000 on STEEMIT?

By posting cool shit there instead of here.

Next question.

make up videos are cool shit ?

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

 There are a ton more girls on Steemit than I have ever seen in any cryptocurrency community.

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 .

[makveezy]

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.