RE: DTube Talks | My Personal Message To DTube And Heimindanger | New DTube Curation Update
I was only going based off of what you told me. Honestly I just wanted to drive the point home that when people say they can't do something because they don't have something, they are ultimately making an excuse. Casey Neistat just made an awesome video on Youtube about someone who overcame all troubles and made no excuses.
What got me is when you said "like myself who don't have the money or the time or the interest to go as deep as you do." I took it personally because you attacked me personally. In the video I made it known that a good video is not defined by the equipment or money you have. It's multiple things. The effort you put in, the value you provide, and even the quality of the video. A Hollywood producer just made an entire film on iPhone. So that's incredible!
There are so many stories of people coming from nothing and achieving everything. But we cannot make excuses or baby people. That was the whole point of the beginning. When I first got into videos 6 years ago I wanted to make amazing videos and a lot of money. Imagine if someone had wrote me a big fat check! I would have never been convinced to get better and to try harder.
I have seen your videos man, that's why you're on my upvote. I've always admired your videos. I like what you do, since the day I came to this platform. And it's unfortunate that you were accused a couple of weeks ago and I encourage you to just keep going honestly.
With all of that said, I refuse to allow people to make excuses for reasons they are not successful. Unfortunately in a real world situation, people who make excuses never succeed. Thus we must push ourselves every day to do better and to be better without excuses. That's what I do and that's why I am where I am today and I'm proud of it!
Thank you for this great reply. I really appreciate that! And it makes me regret my intial rant as I could have worded myself with less emotion. Sorry for getting personal.
You are absolutely right with the effort you have to put in and the excuses you can make in order to not do that. I am in a fortunate position with my SP but I also know that I have worked very hard for it before. Ever since I was attacked here I kind of lost my mojo. That has heavily impacted my Steemit activity and video production - and income. I am in excuses-mode.
You on the other hand, are in power-mode. That is cool for you and great for the platform. But I have been there as you know and it can make you blind or like in my own case even ignorant of the fact how much of the Steem reward pool a power user like yourself is already receiving. For example this week you have an expected payout of 0.0567% of the reward pool according to Steem Supply. That is fantastic and a great achievement. You have earned it as well!
However, that also means that you are currently receiving over a 2000th share of the entire author pool which is shared among 60k - 70k active users. So when you receive less upvotes or smaller upvotes for your work then you would still be one of the top Steemians to receive a large chunk of the reward pool. Right now you riding the wave of being a favorite of the DTube team. That is a massively centralized decision (with the new rules slightly less) which effects all other DTube content creators as well as the entire Steem ecosystem since all platforms share the same reward pool.
My conclusion is that this new system is a first step into a more decentralized and fairer upvote system than it was before - although it is still miles away from that. The massive delegated Steem Power that DTube controls will hopefully spread out wider now which will effect probably all top earners on DTube. But the cool thing is that you can still work in power mode but spread out to DLive for example or find other ways to make more Steem. You can even earn more than now with the same effort but more wider approach among different platforms.