RE: What is the true nature of Steemit, as a venue? Steemit Community Roundtable
„…I probably don't know what I am talking about…“, @denmarkguy you must not hide your light under a bushel! After a lot of words regarding your sophisticated social media background.
You are right and figured out the real scenario. I agree 99%, except the part about the people you described as „ from regions where not only is $100 a month considered significant income.“ There are a lot of unique information these people are able to produce but in every system where money is involved the cheaters are already sitting in. In many cases you see them cheating but there are lots of cases you don't. You cannot pick out a group to point to. And there's no average empirical knowledge you can rely on. But a lot of very clever people exists mainly focused on just draining any pool in their scope. And by the way, this is very common in systems were money is involved. Sorry, but you can't avoid, even carry these „clever“ ones.
I just wanted to stop voting Steem–politics. But I can't stand your posting. Upvoted and resteemed.
@afrog, thank you for your thoughtful comment. I'm just going by the old wisdom the we can help by speaking our truth, but not to become attached to that truth being THE truth!
I did not mean to offend, with respect to any particular groups. People everywhere have something worthwhile to contribute-- in fact, I find the global nature of information very interesting. That's not the issue, nor in question. The problem is people's behavior, EVERYwhere. And the fact that people will behave differently for a reward that means "I eat for a month" than for a reward that means "I eat one nice dinner." Interestingly enough, on a couple of now defunct sites, the LOUDEST protestors against cheating were the high quality contributors from places with a high concentration of cheaters.