What's the Negative Thing of Incentivizing your Audience?

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Lately a heated discussion was brought up to the community regarding authors upvoting engagements from their posts . This author was attacked because he's giving lucrative votes to his followers commenting on his post. In fact, I've read that it was even reported. When I saw that, I said "seriously?".

How can that become an issue? Is rewarding our audience a form of abuse? Or is it against the norm? I would like to know, enlighten me because as far as I know rewarding your audience is the greatest act in a platform. If you've noticed, engagements in Steem blockchain is almost close to dull. You'll never find an avid user commenting on most posts except that they are rewarded.


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So the most basic strategy in growing your audience is simply to incentivize them. When you reward them from their engagements, it encourages them to look on your posts.

I also do the same. I upvote comments from my audience to incentivize the work they do. It is very rare to have audience and engagements in your posts nowadays, so I think of them as a treasure. It is also a way to thank them. Usually the most entertaining and well written comment gets the biggest vote.


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things can and should be a lot more fun if we make them so, people are always going to have different approaches and methods but making some more interaction is a good thing. imho

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Totally agree. I'm almost burst out when I read a post from a good whale here saying he's been reported for "over-rewarding" his audience. Like wth?

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I think the reason for this is because I first joined about 2 weeks ago and noticed that SP stops you from being able to comment if you run out of resource credit. I was disappointed but at the same time I get it. It's an incentive to have more SP. I exchanged other cryptos I had on binance into STEEM because I see how STEEM is useful to own unlike some of them. But people are for the most part limited on comments they can make unless they invested in SP like I did. I wanted to be able to comment just to have a conversation. Helps that there's actually a change in the payout too since I did that. Completely agree though on the main point. It's a good incentive to follow you. Though I've been commenting on your stuff just cause I'm a big football fan and you write good stuff

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Yeah. I think soon, when users can delegate their resource credits I believe it will solve onboarding problems. There's a lot that needs to be done on Steem especially how voting behavior is abusive there.

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