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Hi Steemit,

I am Steemwatcher, Not a real person but a symbolic character,

My purpose here is to spread awareness about the issues that steemit is currently going through, issues which are so serious that they can kill our beloved community.

Steemit was touted as decentralized answer to facebook and other popular social media communities and it somewhat moved towards being that but soon it all went south, Now we have long forgotten that dream and steemit is not even moving in that direction anymore.

I learned a lot about the problems on steemit specially reading posts and comments of many users over a long period, where they have given their suggestions regarding tackling the issues in different possible ways.

i decided to write this post in order to convey my beliefs and principals of operation in advance.

first of all Why i chose anonymity?

I chose annonymity because i believe that is how Whistleblowers should operate. you will get to know my reasons of being anonymous much better when you Read about what I intend to do here.

what i Believe to be the root cause of all this spam that everybody seems to hate or at least talk about hating?

According to my understanding of the platform, i believe that voting bots are the one of the root causes of all this spam in the first place. i believe they motivate users to create shitposts and spam on the platform, whether knowingly or unknowingly. people create spam and get them upvoted from powerful bots to reap rewards,

i know the bots have some good uses as well, specially as a tool to promote posts in hot section in order to increase visibility. but getting a 50$ vote from an upvote bot does not qualify as promotion in my view.

The thinking out of which bots were created is that "My upvotes are my money and why would i give it for free". this thinking is root of all problems, more and more users are now delegating their voting power to some bid bot and every week or so a new bot is appearing and pushing steemit from being a social network toward being a steem generating machine fed by SBD.

these bots are no different from banks in real world which we all blockchain adopters hate so much but it seems they have followed us here as well at the very least on steemit.

Bots need to seriously revise their bid cap in order to appear like a promotion service until then they are doing no good to the platform and only promoting spam, it does not matter whether they vote on good or bad content since they have not read it. Sorry A blind $100 vote is not a service to platform even if done on a good post. Posts were supposed to be created for being read not getting rewarded in the first place.

There are some initiatives which do not operate on principles of this thinking, most notable service of this kind is Curie which was supported initially by @berniesanders or @nextgencrypto whatever you call him. that is the reason i am now a fan of his, not for his flagging activity although i must admit i like that as well.

There is a saying in Art of War by Sun Tzu that "reward and punishment should be equal" and i support his flagging activity because he follows this principle whether knowingly or unknowingly by supporting communities such as curie and providing free upvotes to minnows on their quality content, Many of the powerful User have followed his flagging activity but they are yet to do something toward balancing their acts and earning my respect. even @steemcleaners are not good with that part.

Another issue which Bugs me is the Communism Here, some users who have the High voting power only vote specific authors and in return that author votes him back. these kind of groups mostly contain high SP holders who only vote on their peers neglecting new users and their posts all together. and what is more hilarious that they also write posts about competing with facebook and twitter.

What i will do differently?

Since i do not have the capacity to Reward anybody, i will not be flagging any post, what i will do instead that i will reward users with badges in shitposting like the steemboard for the viewers to see.

How am i different from cheetah?

since cheetah is already doing great with busting plagiarized content, i am not going to do that.

instead i will be issuing badges to posts which have at least $20 in rewards pending and the info inside that article is a waste, whether written well or not. i will be stating my reason in the comments, if some one does not agree he can write me back, if their reason seems satisfactory the badge will be removed.

I get really frustrated with shit articles in trending section, sometimes those articles were already published by another user on steemit generating no revenue whatsoever, but a famous user posts it and their peers vote that to $100 or even $1000 whatsoever they want. i don't think they realize the utility of this platform in reading content of others or reading at all, they seem to be only for posting and upvoting their mates without even looking at their content.

My target will be specially those authors who get a staggering upvote from bots and Guys operating in groups to increase their post payouts. specially i will concentrate on high net individuals and their behavior on the platform.

So in short i will only be messing only with big guys who have the power to crush me easily, that is why i chose anonymity in the first place and called myself a whistleblower.

Now i think that this article is going too long so i will stop for the time being with the FAQ here in this post, i will write a part 2 of it later, but meanwhile you can ask any questions you want in comments to help make this FAQ much better. And please do not forget to leave your suggestions since i was born out of them only.