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Quote from: iamnotback on August 08, 2016, 02:02:26 AM

Hmmm, he may have a point:

Quote from: https://steemit.com/steemit/@brunopro/why-i-m-starting-to-think-that-the-steemit-community-sucks-and-the-number-on-the-thunderclap-campaign-show-it#@anonymint/re-brunopro-why-i-m-starting-to-think-that-the-steemit-community-sucks-and-the-number-on-the-thunderclap-campaign-show-it-20160808t020039269z

Quote from: brunopro

Or it's even worse if the reason is simply that people don't wan't more users in steemit because then it will be harder to take profit's from the posts, if this is the case, steemit is rotten from the inside and will collapse withing itself in the future. I really hope this isn't the case, though!

That is potentially a very astute insight. Since the rewards are always proportional to the market cap, the bloggers already on the site, don't really have an incentive to bring more bloggers to the site, unless those new signups also invest their money, which of course most all new signups don't do.

I don't think any comment made from the perspective of "my post didn't get votes/money therefore the platform sucks" has any validity, and the way it is presented almost precludes astuteness (even if a correct observation that is at best accidental).

Aside from the obvious butthurt crybaby aspect of it, that isn't a statistically sound analysis.

He ran a marketing campaign and claims the community wasn't that interested to help spread it. He positing (and even says he hopes not) that maybe the reason is existing users don't have an incentive to create more competition for themselves. That seems to make sense to me.

OTOH, users have the incentive to spread the word about Steemit, because they are proud, excited, and driven by ideological motivation. But much better if they also didn't have the disincentive of being diluted in terms of competition for rewards against new signups.

More likely his particular particular idea, pitch, reputation, timing, etc. was poor. Many other marketing campaigns have gotten votes. Most posts don't. Complaining that you didn't get votes is silly at best, and evidence of stupidity at worst. The latter reinforces the idea that the community was correct in not supporting him.

Sorry your assumption and malignment ("stupidity"!) of him appears to be incorrectly researched on your part:

Quote from: https://steemit.com/steemit/@brunopro/preaching-the-word-of-steemit-first-crowdspeaking-campaign-with-thunderclap-500-supporters-needed-to-go-live

Edit1: Currently, we're at this point. People are upvoting this post and I thank you but this is bigger than the post upvotes and people should also support the campaign. At the moment of the edit there's 142 upvotes but only 30 supporters for the campaign. And the goal is to reach the 500 supporters, so please go to the link and support this campaign!

Edit2: Here's the video explaining what's this campaign about and how it works

Quote from: https://steemit.com/steemit/@brunopro/why-i-m-starting-to-think-that-the-steemit-community-sucks-and-the-number-on-the-thunderclap-campaign-show-it

First of all, I'm not new to marketing and I've been working with agencies for more than 10 Years either in design or marketing strategies. I now how to work a brand and the responsibility one has when promoting a brand. I know the tool to make a strategy, to work the brand, to take it to higher levels

After looking more closely at that post my opinion of him is further reduced.

That many people don't want to sign up for services that are are going to grab their personal Facebook, Twitter, etc. contacts and promote shit to them is not news. Someone acting upset that Steemit members don't want to do this to support his idea of how a marketing campaign should work is butthurt, yes. And also trolling, and behaving in a hostile manner which will not get more support for his current and future initiatives.

It is quite clear to me the response rate there has literally zero to do with people not wanting competition for rewards.