9 years ago

14 minutes read (About 2049 words)

Post Payout @ cn分享兩周經驗給cn社區朋友 (有神秘禮物)

For English readers, I apologize for not having enough time to translate the content into English. It is mainly about the current conditions @ steemit #cn community. If you are interested, you can try google translate but no guarantee. Still, feel free to ask questions if you are real curious.

A brief summary here: as cn community is in really early stage, a kind whale @abit while taking care of everyone here creates “the @abit line” separating the cn trending posts into two parts by a roughly $5 dollar margin. Please upvote if you wish to encourage newcomers to this cn community as I will somehow spread your good will to them by steem dollars.

大夥們好

大概有兩周時間沒有在cn區發帖了 (期間只有關於美學與翻譯兩篇文章跟中文有關所以用了 #cn 的tag)。這段期間，我主要還是在發英文帖，練練英文同時也避免在這裡被寵壞(以下會解釋)。這兩周來也來了不少新人，雖然不是預期中的中國人大爆發(註冊問題還未解)，但細水長流，那一天總是會來的！這兩周邊寫邊看，又獲得一些知識上的長進，沒有技術背景，只能靠每天的觀察與學習來長進，特來分享一下，希望為近日的新朋友提供努力的方向。這篇主要是分享關於發帖的文章獎勵 (Payout)。

從0.00到14,559，啊，抱歉，是從00,000.00到14,559.53

你知我知，大家剛到這的時候都不是為了純粹分享，都是被分享文章有錢賺這件事吸引的(譬如說大西瓜的故事…英文圈裡有更驚人的故事)，先別說寫文章，光註冊就有3個Steem幣，目前價值7美元，很棒啊。於是你參考別人建議，寫了篇自我介紹而且加上introduceyourself這個tag以及cn這個中文區識別tag，通常你這樣做大概就可以得到 $5-$ 10 (‘美女們’或’名人們’就不在此限了)，又是一陣驚喜：原來這都是真的。你心裡的小算盤開始打了：每天寫個2篇就好，那就有$20，那就是133塊人民幣，真是太好了嘛！雖然還不能當工作來做，但是肯定是很好的兼職收入。這還不算上頂帖、回覆與增值的報酬呢！

美好的開頭，不代表美好的將來。隨著你的每天發文計畫執行，你開始發現世界的殘酷(也很可能還沒發現，但以下會談到)，你開始被0.00詛咒，3篇有2篇是0.00，另一篇從沒超過1.00，6塊人民幣，吃碗麵還行，但有時只能吃個包子。Steemit就只是這樣嗎？你開始看英文帖，原來有人可以拿到$14,559這樣驚人的5位數字(就在幾天前， @dollarvigilante 但這傢伙可不是一般人)，排上trending前面的幾乎都是4位數字。回頭看看cn區的帖子，例如以下是我剛剛擷取的cn trending畫面：

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@rayphu 關於報酬率的文章拿到 $50.68 (兄弟，upvoted!)，是當時的第一位，第二位以下都是$ 10上下。大概到10多順位後，開始降到個位數。你心裡想，怎麼中英文差距這麼大？這是現實，也是現況。首先，當然目前的user主要都是以美國為主的英文使用者，英文文章自然更受到歡迎，但這同時卻也是中國與中文的機會，成長空間更大。其次，中英文頂級文章品質差距還是很大的，以品質與報酬的非線性關係來說，這也是合理的現況。

身在福中要知福，還要知禍

其實，中英文的現況差距，原本會比你以為以及我前面說的要來得更大，也就是說原本中文區的文章獎勵，可能多半不會超過2位數。這個悲慘世界沒有發生，都是因為一個比特 (台灣稱「位元」)。是的，就是人稱 @abit 的中文區大神級人物。好的，我們這裡不造神，有興趣的請自己查( @abit 我是討論公共議題，沒有要針對你討論，不好意思了)，重點在於 @abit 單手改變了中文區的payout樣貌，但你可能以為是自己文章很行(也可能同時成立啦!)，或是檢討自己這篇文章哪裡不好其實結果是因為大神去度假了。這是我犯過的歸因錯誤之一。

我們來看證據。以下同樣是我擷取的畫面，我畫了一條線，稱之為「the @abit line」在上面都超過 $6，在下面都低於$ 2，大概就是前面說的10多順位處。去看這些文章，這條線以上的，100%有 @abit 點讚，以下的都沒有。很清楚了吧？而能排上首位的文章(前圖)，是因為有另一位更大的大神( @pharesim ，我不認識，應該不是cn區的)點贊了，所以將 @rayphu 推上榜首。按照steemdollar.com的計算，此刻 @abit 每一個upvote有 $15的實力，但從前面看來大概對每個帖子的影響力會在$ 5左右 (計算這個很複雜，我也還沒弄懂)。

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這就是我說的「身在福中」，中文區發帖者，由於 @abit 的特別關照，他不是很計較文章品質，抱著鼓勵培育中文區的心態，盡量的點讚，尤其是自我介紹，讓大家有個好的開始。但新人們可能不知道有這個大神，或是知道但不知道神力之大，現在希望大家「知福」了。

知福之後，要知禍。什麼禍？被寵壞的禍。知禍才能避禍。如果隨意寫個今天天氣不好的文章都能每天吃碗麵，那這肯定不能長久。大家可能都知道大神也有點讚限制，一天點個20-40次就差不多了，他也沒法在用戶大量擴張下照顧所有人，大家必須自我成長，或許發英文帖，雙語帖，或許尋求累積有內涵的中文作品，等待中國用戶來臨後才能開始發光發熱。因為當海量用戶來臨時，海量的專業性競爭也會來(英文圈正在發生)，先到者因為熟悉環境而有些先發優勢，但僅此而已，天氣文章終究只能發到微博吧。如此，此福才是福，知禍則禍離。

微薄的祝福

cn社區裡還有一位小一點的新大神 @laonie ，也在做同樣的事，其他神級人物還有的話就抱歉了，個人見識有限，歡迎補充。最後，雖然我比大部分cn社區的人來得早，卻遠非神等級，只是長老一點，但為表示盡力公益與提攜新人，此帖的12-hour payout給author的所有SD (大約是75%*50%=37.5%)，將分享給前50位upvote者當中身價最低的前30位(以wallet account value計算但結算時間無法事先確定，抱歉；排除大戶與中戶，感謝你們的無私點讚貢獻!!)。如果這帖子能到 $80的話，SD應該是有$ 30，這30個人可分到$1.00。每人如果不到 $1.00的話，我會自行補貼確保每個人至少有$ 0.5。

希望現在在這裡的cn人都能有一個被祝福的1.00開始

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Blah Blah Blah on Ba Ba Father's Day - Part 2 – Dad's creation

9 years ago

life

3 minutes read (About 488 words)

Blah Blah Blah on Ba Ba Father's Day - Part 2 – Dad's creation

August 8

is celebrated as Father’s Day in Taiwan. @magicmonk ‘s 88card reminds me that I actually started my very first Steemit self-introduction (didn’t use the popular introduceyourself tag as I did know back then) post with a title "A father from Taiwan. thinking … "…

Oops, sorry!

I forgot that you have already read part 1 of this twin post (here is the link: Blah Blah Blah on Ba Ba Father’s Day - part 1 - Ethan’s work). For those who have not, please do so to correctly decipher the messages embedded in this follow-up, but more important, because this one is my work and I am the father, post. Thank you.

Part 2 begins now. Go pee before you read on.

My Son Was An Agent

It happened almost three years ago.

It was a freezing night. I wasn’t there when this happened and I blame myself for not being there to protect them, my beloved wife and son, from … can’t say no more, see for yourself.

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So now you know. I am agent Mulder’s father. Don’t tell anyone (that this guy is lunatic).

X-files had been so popular in Taiwan. My wife and I both love this TV series so much (and yes we do think Mulder and Scully should be together). As for why I did this…

It happened almost three years ago.

It was a freezing night. I wasn’t in the photo because I was busy taking pictures for my beloved wife and son when we were staying at Regent Taipei (for more on this hotel, see my lately report on Leslie CHOW… ). Regent had a giant light ball set up at the plaza in front of the hotel as a celebration of the Chinese Lantern Festival during the new year holidays.

We were all excited and Ethan especially as he probably saw such a big light ball for the first time in his life. Afterwards when I browse these pictures and I suddenly had an idea of combining them together to make an X-files prequel to amuse ourselves. Never thought that one day I will have the chance to show them to the world and in a fancy and meaningful way.

Lastly, apology for the low quality of the pictures. It’s not easy to take good photos at night using my cheap cameras. But the story of agent Mulder is also kind of obsolete itself, isn’t it? Love transcends time and low quality photos.

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Blah Blah Blah on Ba Ba Father's Day - part 1 - Ethan's work

9 years ago

life

4 minutes read (About 668 words)

Blah Blah Blah on Ba Ba Father's Day - part 1 - Ethan's work

August 8

So, I decided to make two posts today (hence part 1 & 2. link to the counterpart at the end of this post) - first one is here to show the son’s work. and the second one is to show the dad’s creation 3 years ago. This was supposed to be in my diary. But since there is no such type of post (see my proposal on post types here), I have to make it funnier (or… more scary?!) so that it brings value to you. Here is the part 1.

Ethan’s Killer Whale!

My wife and I took Ethan (my 3 years old son) to a department store yesterday (Sunday) and we let him take a roughly 1-hour ‘course’ for modeling some cute figures with playdough (the store is the K-Kingdom in case you visit Taipei next time with kids and this session costs about 30 US dollars). Ethan had finished two works with instructions from a young lady from the store. He was so intrigued and focused that he barely say anything so we the parents get to take a short break from babysitting - I stayed with him and read some good articles about bitcoins and his mother went for a little shopping. Everybody was happy.

Although the true value of Ethan’s activity lies in creating optimized time allocation for everyone, his works symbolize this happy result. So, I am gonna share with you here one of his works - the killer whale!! (No, I did not pick the whale by my steemwashed mind, at least not from my consciousness level.)

Be prepared….. Ethan’s Killer Whale is coming to get you!!

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I hope that you are not too scared by this intimadating picture. Actually, please refer to the wikipedia for a scientific introduction on killer whales. Quote: "Wild killer whales are not considered a threat to humans"… And I especially like this one: "Killer whales are highly social". So, please, enough about the mambo jambo about whales consuming all the resources. They won’t hurt us….. or,… hmm… would they? whales, please upvote to show goodwill…

Okay, back to Ethan’s formidable creature. Personally I think it looks like another formidable creature from Japan TV/comics - the Ultraman!! whose creator also brings the montrous GODZILLA! You can see all the scaryness across them.

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Too scary?! Please don’t get mad. I come in peace. Don’t want to scare anyone. Whales are peaceful (whales, please upvote to show goodwill…). And… the Ultraman… if you know its translated Chinese name used in Taiwan actually means "salty egg superman" (the big eyes explains why), you probably won’t be scared too much.

Again, apology if you think this post is suitable for kids and show it to them and they got scared. We don’t have rating/censorship here at Steemit. It’s partly not my fault.

Should you accept this apology. Please continue to check the counterpart post here: Blah Blah Blah on Ba Ba Father’s Day - Part 2 – Dad’s creation

Last, a photo showing where and how he made his creation. And no, I am not gonna show you the girlie playdough cake he made (he actually spent more time on this one).

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Geometry of Tokyo 2 - Light and Shadows - photos from an average joe

9 years ago

photography

2 minutes read (About 353 words)

Geometry of Tokyo 2 - Light and Shadows - photos from an average joe

Dear #photography steemians, here I am again. Previously I have shared three posts about Tokyo (Treat of Tokyo 1 and Treat of Tokyo 2. And then a Geometry of Tokyo 1.), and was so delighted to know that an amateur like me who just love to travel and take photos (with all my heart though!) can also have some positive feedbacks - maybe that’s the SteemPower (which may become Steem Powers indeed lol)!

The sharing itself is good enough - after all, who would want to check out your photos if you did not show them in a decent art gallery? So I will keep doing this, digging, rummaging all my own photo files and select my favorites to share them here. Hope to see more feedback in replies, although upvotes are certainly appreciated.

Most of the photos were taken by my Sharp smartphone (‘smart’, but really cheap. model SH837 which cost around 200 us dollars only 3 years ago. I am still using it). So, average joe with below-average phone, but these photos I think are still not too bad, huh? Of course, the scene is the key. Tokyo rocks!

There aren’t many users from Japan. Previously I thought posts in Japanese use "#jp" but lately found out that maybe I should use #ja instead. So I change the tag in this post.

Beauty transcends cultural boundaries, languages, and even space and time. Hopefully so does Steemit. Enjoy!

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Above is the famous Tokyo Station (東京駅, Tōkyō-eki).

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The above three photos were taken inside the Tokyo Station Hotel. Just love this hotel! Probably write another post someday to introduce it.

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Post should have different properties in the future, not just with its content tagged

9 years ago

steemit

3 minutes read (About 495 words)

Post should have different properties in the future, not just with its content tagged

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Steemians now post everyday by clicking "Submit a Story" to tell the world what message he or she wants to convey to the Steemian universe. The ‘story’ is generally referred to as ‘post’ here, and experienced Steemians know that you probably don’t want to post more than 4 times within 24 hours so you won’t be penalized by frequent posting.

Four posts, or even fewer, suffice if the author/creator seriously put his or her time into writing and/or crafting the posts everyday. Despite that we do see quite a variety of posts everyday, we have the ‘tag’ system to help us categorize different kind of posts, by content mostly (like steemit, life, travel…) and sometimes by others (like cn or kr for languages used).

But still, a post is just a post, not a message (so far only works while you send someone steem), not a … well nothing else since there is no other vehicles to express anything (a reply is considered a post under a post).

Think about it. A ‘tag’ is something you use to tell others what the content of this post is concerned. It is NOT used to reflect your, the author’s, intention in composing this post. For example, we can have different kinds of ‘posts’ in the future to reflect the author’s purpose in using it. A possible taxonomy is:

Post - keep this original type to refer to most quality posts we have at the moment. it could be personal thoughts, ideas, experiences, stories, reports, photo demonstration, even academic papers that carry information with public value. This type is treated as how the system works right now.

Draft - easily understood. a preparation towards Post. privacy should be allowed. no reward of course.

Diary - a type that a Steemian can keep everyday or whenever he likes to himself (or go public if so chosen) that carries from murmuring, complaint, fantasy to self reflection. No need to be rewarded. Replies can be considered.

Club Post - if we are going to enhance the community property @ Steemit then people will join different clubs and posts within the club can facilitate discussion but need not be rewarded steemwise.

Others - free your imagination…

The reason I bring up this issue is because I saw so many new users, with no ill intentions, post like they are asking for directions on the road. Also, I feel a desperate need to write up but not to publish it, and I don’t want to do it in a separate website/app/paper. I hope I can go everywhere and use any device to continue Steeming without worrying if I have put my beloved work elsewhere...

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9 years ago

language

3 minutes read (About 382 words)

Aesthetics is an overlooked issue for posting in foreign languages (at least in Chinese)

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It is really enjoyable to read so many quality posts on Steemit everyday. It is neat, clean and stylish.

Even a simplest post with a nice picture may look very comfortable. Like this one, borrowing from @ned ‘s 2 months ago (link):

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However, it not so when we encounter posts in Chinese (simplified or traditional). See the following example (select one with only words as pic doesn’t matter): Top: my hello post to the #cn community in Chinese; Down: I use Word to re-edit the left one.

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What do you think?

Personally I think the original one is really reader-unfriendly. And the second one is, after my not-at-all-professional 5-min editing, obviously better. I think my fellow Chinese friends here would agree with me (the case with simplified Chinese might be a little bit worse, but I am not 100% sure).

Maybe English readers can’t really tell, but I assure you that there is definitely room for improvement. I have also checked posts in Japanese and Korean, but I think they are alright aesthetically.

So far, I think the only obvious problem right now is in Chinese posts. Users in any other languages are welcome to comment as well.

Why is this important?

With good graphical design, good posts become great posts. I have read so many English posts that are on par with many quality online articles, in terms of content as well as art design.

If we are to embrace users from all over the planet. Except for translation (see my post here: Translation and how we tackle it affects the future scenario of steemit.), we have to consider the aesthetic factor - the design of post editor, so that online personal publishing will become possible for EVERYONE in every languages. After all, human beings are visual creatures, even more so for potential Steemians.

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大夥們好

從0.00到14,559，啊，抱歉，是從00,000.00到14,559.53

身在福中要知福，還要知禍

微薄的祝福

Blah Blah Blah on Ba Ba Father's Day - Part 2 – Dad's creation

August 8

Oops, sorry!

My Son Was An Agent

Blah Blah Blah on Ba Ba Father's Day - part 1 - Ethan's work

August 8

Ethan’s Killer Whale!

Geometry of Tokyo 2 - Light and Shadows - photos from an average joe

Post should have different properties in the future, not just with its content tagged

Aesthetics is an overlooked issue for posting in foreign languages (at least in Chinese)

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大夥們好

從0.00到14,559，啊，抱歉，是從00,000.00到14,559.53

身在福中要知福，還要知禍

微薄的祝福

Blah Blah Blah on Ba Ba Father's Day - Part 2 – Dad's creation

August 8

Oops, sorry!

My Son Was An Agent

Blah Blah Blah on Ba Ba Father's Day - part 1 - Ethan's work

August 8

Ethan’s Killer Whale!

Geometry of Tokyo 2 - Light and Shadows - photos from an average joe

Post should have different properties in the future, not just with its content tagged

Aesthetics is an overlooked issue for posting in foreign languages (at least in Chinese)

What do you think?

Why is this important?

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