My goal on this platform is not only to post things that I think are beneficial to others, but to try and drowned out the bad with the good. I cannot change the trending page on my own, but I can... through different initiatives, try to help lift that good content. I don’t believe that only artisits and musicians make good content, there are many amazing content creators who are neither of these. What I will say is that I will not vote for crap content just because I feel bad for the person or they seem nice, to me that just seems silly. I try to upvote things I like at 100% to show those authors that I really truly did enjoy it. My vote isn’t huge, but I’m trying... and if I upvoted your post, I reall read it, enjoyed it, and thought it added something positive to the platform.

I think the fact that whales and others are buying votes and upvoting themselves is just a shame, but there’s nothing I can do about that if I believe in a free system, which I do. They are allowed to do what they want, just as I am.

There are quite a few people who agree with both of us, it just seems like we can’t do anything about it alone. Joining forces though, we can. Making initiatives to help drowned out the bad and do things right to me is the way we solve it. Also, not to fall into those traps of doing these things we don’t like, well because everyone else it. But hey, I’m a bit of a purest here... not sure if it’s the smartest thing for my success on the platform, but it’s good for my moral compass anyways.

Great article, hopefully you get quite the discussion going ❤️