People forget the steem roots -- and I'm not kidding. Steem $3.50/steem is easily done again
But those milking the system, need to take some of that milk and re-distribute it to where it belongs.
If you want to build a community -- you don't just do it with algorithmic code changes.
This is important. Very important.
When steem was first created, it was designed to be the first social network, where the users of the system, who created content would benefit. Good content, held value. Curators would benefit by noticing and upvoting good value.
What's changed?
Exploit opportunities.
Why have exploit opportunities exploded in number? Because good content and value isn't rewarded often enough.
Now let's look at something we deal with in everyday life...
Countries and governments are obeyed and considered to be respected in value... because of consensus...
(BTW, these are the types of blog posts Dan Larimer use to write, before he forked off and created EOS)
I repeat:
Countries and governments are obeyed and considered to be respected in value... because of consensus... by the majority of the population. That includes citizens, taxpayers, police, courts, the whole infrastructure of what a state and government is...
Most people respect the authority, and mission of government "enough"... that they don't overthrow the government. They don't hold justice in disrepute.
Granted... every time the price of goods goes up, and there are more deductions on your paycheck, you question yourself on how much you are paying vs what you are receiving back in benefits from our current system.
Let me make the obvious more obvious:
The bidbot, upvoter bots, and SP hoarders today who support these systems have realized:
- It is more profitable to make money supporting the deficiencies in steem than it is to write their own blog posts, or curate good blog posts by others...
I don't fault them for that... it works.
I fault only 2 things:
- The algorithmic design of the system to not account for these types of profitable deficiencies
- The lack of word, from the CEO himself, commonly known as Ned, who does not blog even in a small way, as Dan Larimer use to...
Now, with my prediction intact, many of you may never see this post. We have so many reward pool rapists ready to shut down the slightest bit of negative word by anyone...
BEFORE YOU DO - AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE
...The point of this point isn't to "out" anyone. (Notice I didn't name names, projects, or bots) -- with the exception of Ned and Dan Larimer?
...the truth here.. in the less than 100 readers I'll have on this post, is to explain how we got here... what the motivation for abuse is... and why people turned to abusive profitable tactics rather than use the system as designed.
DID YOU KNOW?
- Many bot owners today... came on the platform originally as really bloggers (just like you)... and really wanted to believe in the design -- they created good content... waited for upvotes and followers too?
- These same people, when they didn't get the upvotes and followers they wanted, looked further and realized... there is an easy way to milk the reward pool and the entire steem blockchain.
AT THIS POINT, WE HAVE DISGRUNTLED BOT-FRIENDLY USERS
- What is a disgruntled bot-friendly user?
- Someone who has feel cheated by the design, and the rewards they should have deserved, and created a new way for them to get properly rewarded.
For the steem blockchain to hard fork to where it should actually be....
Is not the introduction of a new feature or service...
But to solve the disgruntled bot-friendly user problem.
...and Ned... and those who are his close circle...
That is the real problem that needs to be addressed.
Why do we have anti-steem bot-friendly and scammer-friendly exploit driven services milking steem like this?
....they exist for one sole reason:
...and listen.. when I write this.. I am not guessing... I've met some of these avid milkers...
What was sold as being "good value content" and "curated properly" never materialized properly.
Renegade bandits (akin to those who over take a ship in high waters) were not stopped by downvotes
....they soon said "fuck it" (and I am not one to use profanity easily)
....these same people recognized the system was broken... no one was fixing it... other people were milking it... and so they decided... while everyone else milks for free.. why don't I?
...and milk they did... and milk they continue to do... RIGHT NOW... as you read this...
STEEM value could easily be worth $3.50/STEEM for the content, interest, and value it creates.
The only reason why it isn't... is you have leaches and milkers milking its available exploits.
So if you want to stop the hemorrhaging....
Don't try to find your milkers and stop them individually...
IT AS SIMPLE AS THIS:
Find the reason why they find being pirates and liquidators to the system is more profitable than holding allegiance, supporting, and using the system the way it was designed.
If you can solve that problem... all milkers will stop. You won't have to search them out, nor will you have to sell them reasons why what they are doing isn't profitable long term.
The one thing a milker knows.. he's getting milk today... without worry if there is milk tomorrow
NOTE TO MILKERS, AND THOSE THAT HATE WHAT I'VE WRITTEN
If you truly want to see a sustainable platform, go long term...
For your powerdown holdings in SP to be worth something significant someday (not 0.50 cents, not $3.50, but $30)....
...then avoid downvoting this post. Do the opposite. Upvote it, re-steem it, or at the bare minimum leave it alone... untouched. Maybe what I've written will give food for thought to those who can fix what is broken.
Deep thoughts by @intelliguy -- shared openly without support of milkers could use your upvote, your re-steem for this post... or even a witness vote for my non-top50 witness named @intelliwitness
I write what a lot of people know ... but will never say. :)
Thanks for your support.
people are doing whatever they can to eat! that's it!
however or with whatever!
Nice post only a #steem for value!
The deficiency on #steem is not from what you see.
It is more from what you do not see.
For some steemians, spending their #steem is natural.
Now #steem worth not much so you need more to get a decent
amount of dollar.
Hope #steem does not go down to zero.
Keep on postin'
This is a very excellent point. I like that.... I happily upvote you for that great comment!
100% on the money.
It needs to be about community. It needs to about the community for our Steem coin to go up. If each individual makes it about themselves, and not the community, then we may never see the meteoric rise that we know can and should happen with this coin.
The reason that these milkers continue to milk is directly because the large SP holders and dolphins as well don't check that valueless crap. That's why people are trying to reason away the benefits of automation and when their myths are blown out of the water they have shit nothing to say, that's why when I've suggested a quick fix to promotion bot problem of changing the home page to the promoted page in turn highlighting an unused function they had shit for nothing to say. It's a sick mentally where people are willing to bend over backwards to appease abusers and recoil with their entire presence from solutions. The insane reasoning behind automation comes with all the apologetic and pathological nonsense that VP is wasted happens because thinking outside the greedfested postulate they call themselves comes rarer than feathers on swine and as in the allegory of the long spoons, those that exclude others starve, only by feeding one another can you thrive. There's no place for automation in Curation, it devalues the entire process, and equating the freely given voting power to donating something only makes me think about what pathological distress you suffer from because it's as charitable and self sacrificing as offering people your table scraps.
and is the one reason the platform has gone to hell. The more price drops, the more the top table think of nes ways to 'incentivize' us bottom feeders to post. The dolphins only care about auto curating their mates and keeping their income swirling around their own circles whilst the plankton fight for scrap 'incentives' thrown to them.
Steemit is a cesspool of greed
steemit is not steem.
Some time around 2004 or 2005, I was a night-time graduate student. Since I attended part time and at nights, I barely knew any of my classmates. At the time, facebook was only available to people with a college e-mail address. I got an invitation, checked it out for a couple days, and lost interest when I realized that there was no one there that I knew. I stopped signing in and just about forgot all about it.
Around 2008, facebook was open to the public, and I got another invitation. I had lost my original e-mail account, so I created a new one and signed in. This time, I signed in and saw people from my family and my high school and my undergrad college class. I still use that account today.
My point is, it's not just the content and the rewards. Maybe it's not even primarily the content and the rewards. If other people are like me, what matters may be having people that they know here to greet them.
Not sure how you solve that problem, since there's a chicken and egg dynamic to it, but I'm not sure how much anything else matters if you don't get past some threshold of user "familiarity".
Agree to this. The key thing for the Steem platform is still the social element. It will be great if we have all our families and friends also on this platform.
Content is secondary. Because we have different Steem dApps catering for different use cases. People can post junks for all they like on dMania but there are also dApps that are meant for quality stuff.
I am hoping HF20 will bring more leisure users onboard when account creation is easier.
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Downvotes have got to be used more liberally. People don't downvote at all, thats how the rent-seekers get so prevalent.
See a shit content that you think got paid too much (because vote bots), downvote.. But really speaking If i were to do it i can hope to never see a payout for the next 2 months.
That's because downvoting was never intended for us to use but for @ned and whales to use, as we couldn't effect anything with our downvote to actually make a difference or keep garbage in check. About a year into the Steem experience there was a whale experiment where whales self sacrificed the rewards and downvoted any and all whale upvote, mostly in efforts to give us a chance at rewarding content since at the time the most requested fix was to correct the voting curve yet stinc kept pushing it into the future, and since then we've not had anything that matched the whale experiment in terms of giving small accounts a chance at curating.
That's where I disagree. Sure, a 500SP minnows 100% downvote don't look like much. Not so if it's 1000 minnows. Every little action counts, expecially if coordinated. This reminds me of a project called @spaminator, not sure if the spelling is right.
But then for me to say that shows that I'm idealistic. Maybe you are right. But I'm not one to lay low and not do anything if I can do anything about it.
I didn't say not do anything, there's all kinds of actions one can take yet to think that one persons malice or greed can be stopped by 1000 people is certainly only an idealistic sentiment, yet one cannot argue with reality or that the abuses are taking place because those with more than enough resources aren't keeping it in check.
that's a very pessimistic view. nevertheless there's truth in it. I try not to dwell too much on it though, we do what we can do in our small little capacity.
It's not pessimistic to point out the reality and even less very pessimistic, and my "view", if it's a matter of perspective at all, it states plainly the lack of action on Ned's part and consequently there's nothing commendable or excusable for sitting on one's hands when they're at that level of influence and importance. Our top stemian is haijin, I blame one person for that and it's not the donkey.
I don't want to point fingers in any direction. But I can neither agree nor disagree with you.
I sometimes think a total rebranding "Antshare/NEO" style is neccesary if we wanna Steem going anywhere. Along with all the structural change that comes with.
Well, i tried to point this out over a year ago.
Those nice graphs Dan showed of the payout curves...
they weren't a match to what was actually happening.
I pointed this out in words and math, but no one ever listened.
I tried to tell them that a logarithmic curve times a logarithmic curve gets really bad quickly.
And what was worse is the minimum post payout. The wall that keeps newbies out of the system. Fortunately, that was fixed by the price of steem rising, but now that it is falling, its danger of it coming back even worse.
Well done. Resteemed.
Greed is what is killing steemit. Funny how much progress we may have made collectively if everyone came together
There is no patience for some people and they look for instant return.
I really like your username.
thank you @intelliguy for your kindness