RE: Thoughts on earnings and delegations out
...you're declaring that the Steem you distribute to other people has no value to you.
I don’t think you even know what you wrote here.
Given the option to give ten presents to other people or keep five of them for yourself, you're picking the five.
You guys really need to learn how to read and comprehend. What I’m saying is - there is not enough incentive for me and many, many other users to spend my/our time curating content.
Read the writing on the wall. When a large amount of invested users are telling you with their wallets and their feet that there’s not enough incentive to stay powered up, to not delegate, and to curate content, maybe you ought to listen. What the fuck does “giving presents” have to do with investment and economic incentives for desired behavior?
This isn’t a moral debate. It’s not a moral dilemma. We can’t expect everyone to do all the nice things we want and none of the bad things we don’t want without incentivizing them to act accordingly.
So while you and others make this about morality and claim that I’m “being a shit” because you don’t understand economics and behavior, the platform continues to deteriorate. Someday you guys may realize that the protocols have been fucked and need to be corrected. Then again - you may not. It’s really not my problem, to be honest.
Don't go putting the blame on other people when you're evaluating your own incentives that way.
Funny. I thought that you and the other people in this thread were “blaming” me and other stakeholders who simply behave in a manner that’s incentivized by our current blockchain protocols. I guess you didn’t recognize that either.
You want to run for witness...
I am a witness. I don’t run for anything. I’m not a worthless politician.
This in turn leads to an exodus of good content posters who are not circle jerking or buying votes, but who were trying to get along by creating content alone and voting for what they actually like.
Their leaving leads to more leaving, and to others frantically looking for alternatives.
The total number of users may be going up, but there's slaughter going on among the ones I follow, and no, that is not just because of Steem price. It's because Steemit isn't working properly for them anymore; it also doesn't work as advertised anymore, which is a huge marketing problem.
It’s not working for most people. One could argue that it hasn’t worked for about 94% of all sign-ups. (Not an accurate number, since sign-ups have been artificially inflated, along with “active users.”) The people who remain are pretty much just here for the money...and how that money is being earned on all fronts is a great indication of the extremely poor health of the platform.
What people apparently fail to realize is that “investment” and having happy, engaged “investors” on Steem is what will draw happy, engaged, and good content creators. But the problem is - the people bitching about how investors are investing aren’t actually listening to or comprehending those investors and their actions.
Whose fault is that? The people buying the tokens and/or powering up and putting positive price pressure on STEEM? Or the ones whining about how they then use that influence in the flawed system? And why are these whiners not speaking out about the critically flawed system, instead of brown-nosing the dev team that has fucked it up and continues to do so?
Strangely, we agree with this.
That IS strange!