Blurt users can be divided into 8 groups based on whether or not they earn, buy, and sell BLURT tokens. This is a useful exercise because each of these 3 actions has a general effect on the blockchain and token price.
"Earn" (draw BLURT from the reward pool with posts, comments, and/or curation) - mixed effect
"Buy" (convert other cryptos or fiat $ to BLURT) - positive effect
"Sell" (convert BLURT to other cryptos or fiat $) - negative effect
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Examples of each of the types:
1] Earns but doesn't buy or sell BLURT.
- basic (common user)
2] Buys but doesn't earn or sell BLURT.
- investor (long-term holder)
3] Sells but doesn't earn or buy BLURT.
- insider (owner and associates)
- drainer (created by blockchain fork)
4] Earns and buys but doesn't sell BLURT.
- creator-investor (posts, buys, powers up, and curates)
- curation project (buys and curates for rewards to power up)
5] Earns and sells but doesn't buy BLURT.
- cross-poster (copies their content to Blurt, sells rewards)
- plagiarist (copies other peoples' content, sells rewards)
- leech (low quality content, sells rewards)
- celebrity (brings content and followers to Blurt, sells rewards)
- vote bot (trades votes for delegations, sells rewards)
6] Buys and sells but doesn't earn BLURT.
- trader (plays the market)
- exchange (enables others to play the market)
7] Earns, buys, and sells BLURT.
- creator-trader (earns from content and curation to power up, play the market, and sell)
- whale (major investor who buys, sells, and earns primarily from curation)
- farmer (curates mostly own content, sells rewards)
- circle-jerker (curates mostly within a small group, sells rewards)
8] Doesn't earn, buy, or sell BLURT.
- watcher (waiting on the sidelines)
- dormant (created by blockchain fork)
- abandoned (quit platform, lost keys, etc)
After finding which type you are, did you spot yourself in the examples listed? NOTE: You can be more than 1 of the examples within a type.
Future posts will analyze the significance of these 8 types, as well as their effect on the blockchain and token price. Feel free to suggest changes and additions to the examples. Thank you, and let's grow Blurt!
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I think you need to include if they are powering up and or power down their rewards. Could be both. The amount they are selling and how much they are keeping.
I for example am not powering down at anymore. I am not powering up 100% but the 25/75% split works great for me.
For now I am your type 5. cross poster and am also bringing in users to blurt and any other platform that pays. I tell them all about each one that I think would be of best interest to them. Some choose to go other places like read.cash, others to give some here to blurt and so on. It's up to them in the end and I help them set-up too. Since I have accounts literally everywhere that isn't mainstream, I already remember most of the ropes to get one situated.
Whether my quality content is high or low, well, I do my best with the time I have, it's up to each of us to decide what quality is, but pretty sure there is a medium somewhere we could use as a guide.
Cheers.
Good points, thanks.
Sounds like you are talking about adding a variable with 3 modes (power up, power down, or both). That's possible, just as adding in various other variables is. 3 modes means tripling the current number of types, to 24. You go ahead and type that one up, I'll check it out when you're done : P
But yeah, it's true that powering up and down have effects. Personally, I power up my loose BLURT all the time, and never sell any of it. I once traded some for some Ivermectin, but that's about it after many years of accumulation. Whatever I buy also gets powered up. Since I started on Steem, I've always been that way. I don't keep anything liquid. Not that I feel better than anyone else for my actions, that's just the way I think is best for me.
Like you hinted, we all get to decide how we want to manage our wallets (and blogs). But that doesn't mean we'll be accepted by others around us if we do that. So we're somewhat bounded by the community norms, which I think is a fairly healthy thing. If people want to stop powering up, or start powering down, or even selling their tokens, that's up to them. We can comment about it, and have our opinions, and even make changes as a response... but we can't stop them. I guess posts like this are in part meant to give the community a way to discuss and understand these issues, maybe strategize some best practices.
Still, wouldn't it be great if more Blurt users were busy powering up, buying BLURT, curating good content? And less powering down, selling BLURT, and buying votes on their crap content? We can't enforce that, and don't want to try. But it sure would be nice if more people just decided to do that. We would all benefit massively, in more ways than just financial.
Good job helping new users find this place and get set up.
I am in the 5th category but yet I do not believe in selling Blurt at this point of time and at the same time looking at how the blurt price has only gone down over the years I do not want all my efforts going to waste.
My payout is 25/75% and the 25% I convert to Hive when I get a good exchange.
I feel that when the market gets better I will get good returns on my efforts and I want to still keep believing in Blurt and hence majority of my earnings are accumulating and growing month on month.
Another point is that I do cross post from Steemit, and I make sure that my content is always original about my travels and life experiences.
Great post, I have a lot to say but it will make me remember old memories from steemit and hive. Above all everyone is important.
I'm the 4. Like you my friend! 🤙😜❤️👍
Yeah man, creator-investors. We build and backstop the community. You're also a witness, which I didn't mention here, so you're involved that way too.
Come to think of it, are you still doing the coconuts? That's another example of a type that earns and buys, but generally does not sell or trade tokens. Curation projects (especially with manual curation) are assets to the blockchain.
Yes, of course! 🥥 I am the only coconut curator at the moment. Blurt is getting some awesome new developers and projects. Looking forward to the future! ♥️🍀🏆
That's good man, we need it! Not to be negative but the place has kind of gone stale over the past year. Very little seems to be getting done. We were behind 2 years ago... now we're REALLY behind. The list is huge, but just to randomly name one, we don't even have proper statistics on our accounts, something which would benefit everyone. That kind of thing could be developed quickly and cheaply, but doesn't happen... and there are SO many things like that. But hopefully things turn around with these new projects etc. It's possible the bull market will finally touch our token, and we'll be able to attract more development, and things will take off. : ))
I think you need everyone apart from the plagerisng other peoples work people. Everyone else is needed in the eco system. If no one sells there is no market, if no one posts there is no market, if no one buys there is no market, you need people at all parts. People
Who post but don’t buy are probably putting more time into their posts people who buy likely have outside jobs than creating content and help fund the system. Imo people need to respect all users as they are all needed for the chain to thrive. The artists need to be funded by the investors to create a vibrant chain.
For anyone to be exclusive to a platform for 30p - £1 a post tho I think you’ll only get really rubbish content, ie iPhone photos taken from home with no editing or nice lighting or people not bothering to post at all because it’s not worth their time.
That's right, the takers need givers, or it all stops.
When the takers are stronger than the givers, the blockchain, community, and token price are degraded. Imagine all the whales suddenly selling, much like what happened 2 years ago when the price fell by 90% (and has never recovered). When the givers are stronger than the takers, the blockchain, community, and token price are bolstered. A market needs both sides, but their relative strength is what determines price action and corresponding interest in the blockchain/community.
What do you consider a giver though ? Only an investor? In the real world if an artist produces art and someone invests in the art hoping it goes up in value in the future no one’s a taker or a giver it’s just people giving in different ways and hoping to take in different ways . Everyone is going to cash out eventually creators and investors. I find ppl have rly bizarre rules about getting paid on these sites.
Investors have more available cash and don’t rely on it to live on so they can afford to put the money in an investment and not have access to it for a good while. That’s how all investments work. But for their investment to go up in value it requires ppl who make the art and are willing to sell it below its potential top value. They sell their work at the value it is because they need the money to live, the investors can afford to sit on the money for a few years.
Everyone’s looking to take money and value from the system it’s just investors are not using the money for day to day expenses so they can keep it in longer in the hope it’s worth more in a few years. Everyone is imperative to the value system and both ultimately want to gain abundance.
By "giver" I mean someone who adds value to the community and/or token. An investor is one example, and I gave many others in my post.
I don't think there are any "rules about getting paid" on Blurt, and I'm not suggesting any be created. I'm in favour of free markets and individual liberty.
We have a lot of users here who don't upvote anyone but themselves, giving all their spam comments 100%, and selling the profits. This drains the reward pool. It also drives down the token price. We also have people like me who have brought more than $20000 to this platform, and put in 2.5 years of full-time content creation, and have never pulled anything out. In fact, if I was to need my money back right now, it would only amount to $3000. Meanwhile, many users here have cashed out thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. Hundreds, in the case of the insiders at the top. Where did all that come from? It came from the givers.
You can talk about general macroeconomic theory all you want, but THAT is how Blurt works. Money pours in, "BLURT tokens" are handed out by the millions, then insiders (and a few farmers etc) withdraw the money.
That doesn’t bother me that much as their upvotes are rly tiny unless they actually invest real money and we need those investors I guess it’s like their dividend to change it we would need to change the platform and make it less worthwhile to self upvote but investors rarely have time to vote and comment so maybe they could just get a dividend
Type #1 today... and perhaps become a type #7 in the years to come.
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I added this example to Type 7: