Quote from: CoinHoarder on July 20, 2016, 07:00:26 PM

There is already a similar post on the front page someone posted 14 hours ago.

You are stating obvious and basic information that anyone can see for themselves.

You mean the post I linked to? Which isn't comprehensible to a female n00b, yet my post is. And you want your site to be widely adopted.

I wrote the post expecting to earn nothing on and it was to perform a test.

I wanted to see if the male bias of the whales would reject it as a duplicate. And they did. As expected. Depriving the females of the information.

Quote from: rycon87 on July 20, 2016, 06:47:09 PM

Quote from: AlexGR on July 20, 2016, 06:18:37 PM

Well in the front page right now: https://steemit.com/financial/@complexring/authors-can-obtain-a-30-premium-on-steem-backed-dollars-sbd

...with 6.2k USD

I'm pretty sure that the main reason for that is due to complexring being a whale already, with about $1 million of vesting STEEM. So all he has to do is post, upvote his own post, have his whale friends upvote his post and voila, instant publicity in the trending section where all the little fish continue showering it with upvotes. I've seen this happen with seriously crap posts also (like links to virtual reality youtube videos pulling in $7,000, seriously?), and as long as it gets publicity from whale votes it will make huge bank. This can also be seen when someone posts breaking news about steemit and no one notices because it's instantly buried by other crap, but then a whale comes along 3 hours later and posts it and pulls in $10,000+.

That's the part of the system that I think is seriously broken right now.

Exactly. And he doesn't have a clue how to explain it to a general audience. His post was incomprehensible to a newbie n00b.

complexring is the same guy who wrote an incomprehensible comment in my first blog about Grassmannians and obtuse math that perhaps only 20 people on the site might have a clue what he means. I asked him to clarify and I still don't really understand what he is talking about. Manifolds and all that... (I have a clue about his point but I haven't yet tried to delve into it...)