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RE: Steemians Are On The Cutting Edge Of The Change In Humanity
Here, have an upvote.
Though, I must say I don't agree fully. Steem is great, but no silver bullet. We must be very aware of the dangers.
Circle-jerking and echo-chambering is one risk. Look at the typical comment on steem - "nice", "I agree", "spot on" - there is too little disagreement to be found. It's easier to ignore things we disagree with than to tackle it heads-on. While it's nice that we're nice towards each other, lack of negative feedback causes people to drift into extremist viewpoints.
Also, if steem will become at popular as I hope it will be, I'm concerned that there will be PR-agencies actively manipulating it.
(giving myself a humble 1% upvote for increased visibility)
Haha totally dick move. I do it all the time. You're basically saying:
You aren't wrong, of course.
😈😈😈 Nice post. 😈😈😈
No, I would have given myself a 100% upvote then - and I would have avoided upvoting other comments as well.
My rationale is that 90% of the comments on Steem (in general) is noise. Lots and lots of meaningless compliments (fishing for upvotes), automated messages from bots and bidbots, etc. Of course people don't flag it, but it makes it difficult to get heard without self-upvoting. With a 1% upvote I give anyone holding a modest amount of steem power a chance to propel other comments above mine.