I'm so disappointed with Steemit Inc. I think you have missed a unique opportunity in the last two years. With ZERO marketing, poor execution and lacking the confidence of any investor. And now, are you still removing rewards from content creators? Unveliebeble! I don't understand how you don't take some earnings from the witnesses, in HF21. And if they have any problem with losing profits, there are 100 candidates available to replace them. On the other hand, it is enough to influence the position of witnesses with accounts related to Steem, such as pumpking or whatever it is called. You don't listen to the voice of the community and you only ask to witnesses, who obviously accept this proposal, because it means more gain for them. Or maybe, you're going to tell me that with $2600 a month, is not enough? Plus all they earn with the SP generated? COME ON! Do you think we are stupid?
I loved this platform, I was a content creator. I published 2 to 3 times per day when the Steem was $0.09. But now, I consider myself completely out of Steem, because the only thing that witnesses and Steemit Inc do, is go against what the community wants. YOU ARE LOSING THE CONTENT CREATORS, WHICH ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT VALUE THAT THIS PLATFORM HAS/ OR HAD. And I can say this because I'm not interested in anyone's vote, nor do I care if they put a flag on me. The content creator that keeps publishing, is not going to say this, because they would lose votes. And do you know where the destruction of Steem is clearly seen? In the market capitalization. From position 15 or even higher, to 79. SEVENTY-NINE! WTF ARE YOU DOING??? And it will keep going down, unfortunately, because it seems that those who have power on the platform, are taking out the little juice that is left to Steem. Possibly the price may rise, due to a natural dependency with btc, but the market capitalization ranking, which is the one that matters, will not go up. Honestly this hurts me, because I love this platform and dedicate too much time of my live, promoting the Spanish-speaking community. And it seems ridiculous that you increase the profits to those who have more and that you take earnings from the content creators. What investors are going to come, if this platform no longer has content to be voted on? And fewer content creators are going to exist with the HF21.
On the other hand, I don't understand how you continue to pay a salary to the person who "does" marketing, because it is non-existent. Steemit DOES NOT HAVE MARKETING. That of the organic growth, after two years, was a TOTAL FAILURE and you would have to fire him. He missed a unique opportunity in these two years and I think it was one of the biggest failures of Steemit Inc. And it is clearly seen on Twitter, where EVERYONE publishes with Medium. In a world where marketing is voracious, this person wanted to grow organically? Please, what are you doing that doesn't fire him?
I repeat, it hurts me to write this, because those who knew me on the platform, know what I did at the time, but with everything you are doing, I have no other option than to despise human beings who have power here. Steemit will be a pleasant memory, I'm happy with it, but here it ends for me. I hope I'm wrong and can return at some point, but I see it impossible. You (Witnesses and Steemit Inc) killed this platform by inoperability and greed.
Edit: Sorry, now Steem is 81 in market capitalization :......(
100% agree. Steemit is an tragic example of missed opportunity. And what little of it remains, continues to slip through our fingers.
I have given 2 years of my skill and time, for tokens I've been powering up, that are now worth about $200. That is heartbreaking when I see SPAM POSTS on this site pulling in that much, every day! I've contributed massive amounts of valuable unique exceptional content, and got almost nothing in return. Even worse, I moved all my crypto holdings into STEEM to "put my money where my mouth was", and powered up $5000 USD worth. Now that $5000, with interest collected, is worth under $300.
Now they're saying the management and insiders need more of my money? LOL
By abusing the content-creators they ensured this blockchain would fail.
There were only a few thousand of us hanging on, and only for the hopes that something good might be coming. Now that we know it isn't.... numbers will dwindle rapidly.
And people are selling STEEM for anything else, as fast as they can. :(
I agree! Sad - it's because we live in a hierarchical slave system and each individual would have to raise their consciousness in order to get out of it - so everything that is created on earth, in this mindset -will become another hierarchy until people give up delegating authority and give up the idea of fiat currency and give up the idea of haves and have nots and get out of religions like money, and belief in kill or be killed and self-preservation - all that - until then - everything humans create on earth will turn to shit because of the poisoned world view of humanity.
Yeah, let's go back to tribalism and the law of the nature. Nothing better than living like monkeys! Wondering why you are still here and not living in the subsaharian jungle under exactly those laws.
I am still here to stand up for NATURE to AI like you.
To what? People like me? People who see the flaws in our nature and try to find progressive solutions which don't resolve in a bloody civil war? En contraire to people who idealize our weak nature?
I think you perhaps misunderstand. I live by NATURAL LAW - Do unto others as I would have others do unto me. Cause No Harm. That is the LAW of Nature. The laws of steemit seem to be the laws of the hierarchy in which some believe they are the authority. There is no such thing as a human authority to delegate power to. As long as we live in this paradigm, all things we create will end up in the hierarchy. Me personally, I would prefer to go back to a time when we were more hominid than the satanic self-preservation mindset we currently are in. At least at that time we lived in alignment with Nature instead of now where we are living by nihilism.
Sorry, but the law of nature is eat or be eaten and the strongest prevails. The nature itself balances itself out usually but in general it is that. We have countless examples of lack of mercy, brutality and hierarchies in nature. And, if you are able to tell me any time in human history where we lived in alignment with nature in a non hierarchical setting, please tell me.
That is a poisoned world view provided for you by your owners - I suggest perhaps giving this a watch:
There are no flaws in nature, only flaws in the way humans perceived flaws in nature! People are like a virus! Maybe not all but the rotten ones that can’t be changed.
my bad mixed up ngc and gtg this am, was in a rush, will fix!
I agree partially, but also disagree on some points.
Definitely the things Steemit Inc did wrong in the last 2 years could fill an entire "how to not do blockchain business book". And I also do agree that parts of the share for DAO could come from the witness pool.
But I don't believe that the "posts" on this platform is the most important thing Steem has. Unless you can show me any post on this blockchain which ever went viral and got reach far outside of our own community.
I believe that Steem has to become a Blockchain for applications and slightly move away from having "blogging" being the main business model.
Because the number one thing which allows Steem to maintain value is applications and not authors.
Tell me anyone who invested into Steem to be able to upvote their favorite authors. I don't believe you will find any significant quantity for that. People have to be incentives to invest into Steem for resource credits to run their applications on top of it. Where Steemit should only be one on them.
Apps like Splinterslands show the possibilities there are on this front.
Unfortunately the economic model is broken for too long and these economic changes in this hardfork maybe too late. But, at least it is a step forward finally.
When you only have a "solid" product (Steemit.com), you have to develop that product. You can not put energy into something (Dapps) if your most important product is a disaster. Who will invest in Steem, if Steemit.com, its main product, is falling apart?
Be successful with Steemit.com (too late for this) and maybe I or any investor, could possibly invest in Steem. And then, let's talk about Dapps.
The main problem is that I don't believe that it is possible to have a decent way to make Steemit sustainable.
How will you incentive many people to invest into a coin where a huge share goes to some blog writers and a big part of them are going to use selfvotes and other shit to get the maximum out of i? And if you want to get some extra profit out of your steem power you gotta do the same.
I believe that the economic proposal goes into a way where it might improve the Steemit experience, but fixing it? I'm not sure that is possible at all.
The curation increase will incentive voting other people more and thus incentive people to invest in Steem Power.
The rewards curve will make it more important to use bots but if you use bots and don't provide great content your content is going to be downvoted which is going to make bot abuse much more difficult.
Steem as a blogging platform is a highly experimental social experiment, and I'm not sure it can succeed at all. It's something we may find out with tons of trial and error.
But Steem as a platform for developers for Dapps, that is easy. Steem is easily the Platform with the easiest onboarding for new developers and with the help of cheap rpcs and resource credits + fast transactions it is very inviting to build your app on top of this blockchain. Especially with delegation markets which allow you to rent steem power more short term to get started it allows super easy onboarding without any commitment.
That's why MIRA was so important and that's why SMTs are going to be important too.
(Even though they might be badly late).
What guarantee is there that the proposals will actually produce some ROI in the form of a higher market cap for Steem? Just having a proposal system means nothing if there isn't any growth. Is Steem going to be burned?
Now, the Proposal System is supposed to take care of initiatives as development and marketing. So we have to hope that the investment into these things will have a higher return than the actual investment.
I understand you. You are looking from the developer's side and possibly you are right. Maybe what you mention may bring investors. I'm not a developer and I do not know how easy it is to build a dapp in Steem, Eos, Eth, RSK, etc. I know the basics.
From the side of the investor, and talking about the SMT. Giving two launch dates and not fulfilling them, is another BIG failure. Trust, in this world is everything and you can not make that mistake as a company.
However, all my comment was focused on the 50/50 change.
Please, tell the marketing guy that he has to let the world know about this...
I completely agree with you on this, this year is the first year I am starting to trust in Steemit Inc since they are starting to deliver and showing better communication. Let's hope they will keep that up.
And I agree, one thing they definitely have a lot to learn yet is in marketing. Because that's something steem and Steemit are missing completely.
@raycoms if under word marketing you mean to promote Steem to bigger audience, than I totally agree. Another thing are tone of dapps, and coins under steem, floating all over. All exchanges, working with steem, games, news, new developments... Where are those in one place to show them to new members? It's not hard for me or anyone else who is here on Steem for longer period. will you say to new member to make speeddial group with all 72 steem links? I doubt it
https://steemapps.com/
that's your poisoned world view - believing that "people are selfish" and therefore we need some kind of authoritative police force that is going to make sure people are restricted from being selfish - that will just cause organism to die.
Unless you can show me any scientific publication which proofs that people are inherently altruistic and are able to organize themselves in non hierarchical systems I am forced to believe the current state of the art believe.
People are selfish, they only care about themselves and getting the best out for them, at any cost and the entire blockchain eco system with all the scams, manipulations and worse while there are no "enslaving authorities" is my proof.
People can be selfish and the economic pie can still grow. There is no reason to have a shrinking pie unless you are doing something wrong. You think people working in company X are doing it out of altruism?
Now, I never said that the economy has to shrink out of selfishness. But what will happen is that if the economy grows, who will get the extra are going to be very few at the top.
people are programmable - so whatever the mind-control system of the moment wants - people are - unless they awaken and do their shadow work. Oh and there are plenty of enslaving authorities in the blockchain.
yeah people turned out to be so selfish. It is out survival instinct hardwired in.
Giving up is not a solution. As you noticed, the top 20 witnesses are still not on board.
Stay positive and continue what you do best, create more empowering content. At the end of the day, we are still small fish in the ocean trying to survive.
I've seen the ups and downs of steem community, experienced mostly down but I continue to press forward. That's the only way for us to evolve, improve and become a stable community.
Cheers for now.
So dam true even i wish it changes or else everything will be history...wish for the best.
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How come your last post was written 11 months ago? How come you don't take advantage of Steem Engine tokenized tags, such as palnet, neoxian, steemleo, etc? They will by far outweigh the reduced author rewards. Come back to Steem because 11 months ago things were very different. And unless you're starving, cancel that power down because without SP you will not have much foundation to build on here. Steemit Inc is not everything. Yes, they need to do marketing. And they will. They are not stupid to let this ship sink.
But we all need to do this. This is not centralized Facebook. Everyone can take part in the future of this blockchain. Decentralized community has been hard at work and development that has been done is truly world-changing. Try it out for at least a month and maybe your views will change after that. I hope.
Im not against bidbots. The 50/50 rule is not that great. But if you were here at 9 cents keep on doing what you do we need you. But we need investers we need more steemflow. The bidbots are doing that but instead of opting them out welcome them in. Like facebook do. ***Do it like facebook Pay steem to earn a place in the trending page of users with the same interests between the posts without the bidbots. ***
This will attract more investers local businesses great events and the rise of steem.
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Someone seems to have lost their Positive Vibrations. 😆