RE: My thoughts about WOX Coomunity and UPVU
Dear Karly and Stef,
to be honest, I find it hard to believe what I see and read here.
To make a long story short:
On the one hand, I do believe that there are very good developers behind the Upvu team who have developed their "service" with a well-intentioned background. Yes, maybe this one is even good for the ecosystem, because a certain part of STEEM is actually kept in the system as SP (a small part: most big Upvu users (see "trendings") pull out large amounts of liquid STEEM). Similarly, I think the "Witness Initiative" is good and Steem-friendly.
On the other hand, I see how Upvu votes blindly or automatically. Everything: spam, single images, single sentences, even empty posts and above all: plagiarism. So everything that you have always fought against with so much strength and engagement to keep our platform "clean" is being voted for. I'm sorry: you are now supporting exactly what you were upset about.
Assuming that this abuse did not exist, everything would be fine? You are strengthening your walltet and that of Upvu. That's okay, that's your right. After all, it's a way to make money on the Steem. That's what you can choose, "rewarding good content" and CR is not everything. And now let's assume that all the big and bigger stakeholders take this opportunity for themselves. That leaves us with the pyramid system you never wanted: The rich get richer and richer, while the little ones are left with "handouts". This is definitely not an environment in which I feel comfortable.
"The sc is not everything! The communities must be strengthened, the members should be rewarded for good content, for their engagement by the community!" Excuse me? Where are the rewards supposed to come from if the stakes, which - as in your case too (apart from your own investment) - were built up for example by the sc with a lot of support, are not available?
Yes, you delegated "only" 50%, rest still goes into curation. Concerning to the upper argument (blind voting of spam and plagiarism) I have to admit that in my eyes even "only" 50% are 100% too much for taking part in supporting crap.
I would be happy if you could convince me of another - less negative - point of view, because I thought we had a very similar one so far: for a better, fairer Steem.
Liebe Grüße,
Christiane
Dear Christiane,
I have read a lot about the plans and the goals of UPVU, because couple of years ago steem-agora already wrote that in his posts and mentioned what is the aim of it. I did not think that they will reach what they have reached and I am glad that nowadays they post also in English and also it is nice to see what they achieved.
The blockchain is not only blogging, the capacity of Steem blockchain is not used we are only using it for blogging but there is much more potential of it.
When it comes to communities we can see how many just build up, growing and once they reach some level they are powering down and go, the same like some of the users.
You know the situation very well and I am not going to convince you in anything. I have explained everything in my post.
Wishing you nice start in the week,
Karly
I totally agree with your opinion, a lot of unqualified content is supported while quality ones don't get awards, if this happens destruction will come, steemit will be quiet like a grave.
That's an absolutely different discussion (which I definitely won't go into) that has nothing to do with automatic "high return of investment services" like Upvu.
This text is from my point of view.
I should have added a period after saying I agree with your opinion, or separated that sentence in another paragraph.
Sorry for my comment which was written in an irregular manner.