My opinion on "vote buying" and my humble suggestion on how to grow a healthy steemit community

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When I came to Steemit in 2017, I thought the only way to get more steem was by either buying steem or constant upvoting of good contents to get steem power which could be powered down. But as time went on, it all changed.

People who were supposed to upvote good contents for returns in curation rewards were rather selling their upvotes.

Why should I bring someone from Facebook to Steemit and tell him "your valuable contents need to be paid before you can earn"?

Vote buying is reducing the number of good and quality contents.

People don't value valuable contents, they value valuable rewarding bots.

I remember the day I spent 6 hours making a post last year and when I was done, I told myself that this post was gonna hit $20. I was so confident because I made good research, spent time on YouTube to research about what I wanted to talk about with different examples and guess what? That post didn't even make up to $1. (this was last year Q2)

That day I felt like just quitting steemit. I said "thought it was all about valuable contents, why didn't I get at least $1"?

As a newbie, there were so many things I didn't know, so many things I needed to know and no one to ask them but Google.com.

Why wasn't my post upvoted? Maybe because those who were supposed to upvote me were waiting for me to come buy their upvotes?

should everyone upvote for free?

Well yes and no!

I understand the business part of this and its OK. We all need to make some profits. But when you close your eyes to the needs and cry of people just because you want to make profits, then it's no longer business, its wickedness.

There are people who want their post to be on the trending page for advertisement purposes, that's OK because they have something that needs to be seen, so They go to bots and buy votes.

But as you sell your votes, do well to help one or two persons with upvotes.

Not everyone wants to be on the trending page. Some just want at least $1 to survive.

When we had a Reach out to homeless kids some months ago, I made the people I went with realize that there are people that all they need to survive in a day is just $1. But If we take them from the streets, teach them how to read and write. Will they be able to write and feed?

Currently, it might be difficult.

I Wish there was a way vote Selling could be regulated.

But for now, let's see how we can help each other. I have a community of over 300 people and I couldn't get steem Power to help them out, but thank God @ejemai came to our rescue.

We can Make the world a better place if we reduce our selfishness to a certain level.

suggestion on how to build a healthy steemit community.

Steemit doesn't have a publicity department that I am aware of, so the users of steemit should be the one to do this publicity (promotion).

So our focus should be on building and supporting active communities.

Currently what we have is good, but it isn't good enough.

People delegate steem Power to communities that they feel like giving it too, which is still better than selling everything to bots, but it can be better.

My suggestion

I think Every community that has maintained a minimum of 200 or 150 active steemians within 3 to 4 months, should be qualified to receive delegation or qualified to be interviewed for a delegation.

This way those who have maintained a good record over a long time will be encouraged to continue building

See someone like @ewuoso, a big time community builder earning $0.5 on his post. This guy has an active community that has been active for over a year, attended meetups and encouraged 100s of Nigerians to come to Steemit.

This is what he's earning now?

Why is it so?

Because few people care.

That's why I'm forever grateful and thankful to people like @donkeypong and @ejemai for reaching out to some people who needed support. I wish we have more people like you guys.

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