Hello there. I am from the Philippines and I am glad and grateful that I was able to discover this wonderful platform. As a response to your fear that Steemit it is being overrun by citizens of poor nations that seeks to scam people is unfounded. Scamming is not a monopoly of poor countries IMHO. What you are seeing is mass adaptation of citizens of these countries that believes in the platform. Diversity will bring more value in to the platform. This is also the effect of strong community builders in the aforementioned countries. While there might be spammers and scammers coming from these countries insinuating that the influx of these "Poor" countries will increase such bad actors in the platform is silly and Insulting.
I am merely pointing out that more than HALF of all newbies here are coming from these five nations, representing less than 2% of the world's population. That is statistically significant, and deserves explanation.
@mepatriot. This is not about poverty issues my friend. This is about how active the community is and the opportunity that Steemit gives. I think that's the main reason why a lot of account signups happened despite of the lack of understanding on what really powers Steemit. Ideally, blockchain technology and cryptocurrency is still on its infancy stage in these countries.
I have to tell you, poverty does not directly mean ignorance. Don't you know that a lot of Filipinos are top contributors of Utopian, a lot were upvoted by @curie because of how wonderful their posts were created, etc etc.
I don't recall calling anyone ignorant. I am just searching for reasons for this predominant signup activity from these specific locations.
My apologies for not being able to read carefully on your blog.
Mainly because we build communities and one of our main goal is to spread Steemit. So we promote and invite as much as we can, which theoretically can help the platform, something everyone should be doing. Calling people desperate doesn't have a nice ring to it and stereotyping people based on where they are from should have disappeared years back.
Helping is helping. It doesn't matter who you help. Rich helping the rich. Poor helping the poor. Rich helping the poor. Poor helping the rich. It's a positive thing that any website should be proud of really.
Also, this is a decentralized platform so anyone is free to sign up. If everyone from the third world signs up first then that's great, they'd be early adapters, good contributors to this platform. Steemit owes it to these people why they can boast their numbers.
No one here gives a damn how dirt poor someone is as long as they can contribute and prove thei worth. I'm dirt poor really. I live in the third world and my pay could be 5-10% of yours only. XD Also I don't see that many people begging for charity, if there are then it's not for themselves but rather to give back and pay it forward.
The kindest person I know is a Nigerian based in the Philippines and he has a really deep sense of understanding and helpfulness. Also, you got our country's name wrong.
Thanks for reading. Btw you're misusing the introduceyourself tag (based on the norm, cause this isn't an introduction post).
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I did not say or imply that you said he wasn't kind. I just said that he's the kindest and he's Nigerian, just setting him as an example. He's basically one of the main reason why there's lots of sign ups from Nigeria and Philippines (it could also extend to those other nations you mentioned) because he constantly promotes Steemit. I guess, the answer to your main question why there's so many signups from a certain place is because people promote Steemit because they believe in it and the good that it can do. And people here are too competitive to not build communities.
Btw, I just based it on minimum wage, US has around 7 usd per hour. We get less than 10usd per day.
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I guess, depending on where a person is, promoting Steemit can either be worth it or a pain in the neck.
It was a nice exchange of thoughts kind sir. You do great, okay? God bless!
"money, money, money", as Abba would say...
...it doesn't mean that in the slightest.
...And poor people in poorer nations are clever enough to work out that by making a few dollars a day here , it can change their lives.
All power to them.