RE: Why I am ready to Power Down
While I agree with a lot of what you are saying, realize that the majority of people here are crypto enthusiasts. It's been along less than half a year, is still in beta, and has already made a great impact on many. Yes it's true I don't always understand why some content gets more love than others, but a look through #introduceyourself is always entertaining as allows you to find people with similar experiences and interests. It's our job to introduce new people to steemit to diversify the content. Almost everyone knows how to make a social media post, but many are wasting time trying to get traction for their art, photos, fashion etc on instagram twitter or youtube. I do feel limiting the number of posts to four a day is a great idea. I feel the developers do listen to suggestions, but in all honesty even if i made a dime, for ten hours of browsing cool content, I'd still stay here. I've wasted far to much time and energy padding zuckerberg's pockets. If you do find a platform that has something better to offer than steemit I would be very interested to research it. So far having paid $0 dollars, I can say the investment has gone extremely well. This could be retirement money for someone who knows. I think you may kick yourself in the future for powering down at such an early stage, but people are free to invest their time and money in whatever is satisfying to them. Hope you can find whatever it is that you are searching for. I do think you have brought up a valuable point, and new content should be rewarded higher. But you can also make some money showing up and commenting ten minutes a day. Totaly up to you. I do love that about this platform and am trying to treat it as if it is a job, and keep my reputation as someone who adds value to this ecosystem.
We need more comments and discussions like this.
agreed, but whales dont upvote them, so they wont happen.
Yes and no. It is annoying when you see a comment on a weed post get $300, but essentially I equate that with winning the lottery. That's not going to be the norm. Every comment should at least show you took the time to read someone's ideas or thoughts/experience. And I do feel that steemit should be a place where people can have respectful debates about a variety of topics without animosity. There are many improvements that could be made to make steemit better, but there is enough wealth to go around. I get excited to see others success even if my own posts only garner ten cents or less. I like to add value and ideas through comments. Something facebook and youtube comments will probably rarely ever get. People actually can make money commenting, so using that as a way to encourage or debate the creator is awesome. If you respectfully disagree, I'd have no animosity towards you. We can have opposite opinions and both be valid without any need to troll or disrespect each other. I think the people looking to make a quick buck and cash out are missing out on what steemit is all about. There are plenty of pump and dump schemes to try to win your hand at. We as users help determine the value of steem and your reputation is important. Every person can see all your posts. There is no friend request or privacy in that regard which means that if someone posts negative or hateful content frequently, a dolphin or whale will prevent them from even showing up anywhere. Does the troll really win then if their comments are shown at the bottom? I guess haha, but I take this platform very seriously. At the moment I don't have a steady job. I see this as an opportunity to put out my ideas, help others, and inspire people in any way I can. Is there circle jerking? Yes, but when someone makes a positive honest post about steemit, then I guess people may need to reevaluate their definition. Most of these people are not having success and blaming others instead of looking to learn from the many people who are happy to help. If people instead of blaming boobs and pictures for garnering all the attention instead brainstormed ways to get more new users to be successful through cool contests or promotions, I think there would be a lot more successful people. Unless you are already a blogger, it may be hard to jump in and post great content or have power to curate much. But nobody has an excuse to not make a good comment. It's one of the simplest forms of feedback to provide and tells the author something more than some else simply saying great post. If a bot that can't read content could make the same comment you are thinking about posting, maybe it's not worth your time to post it. I for one appreciate comments that make me want to engage with the person. This is not a knock against people that do this, but a call to make the comment section valuable instead of simple three word responses and trolling. That's my 2 steems (which is not original to me someone else posted it, but I can't remember who).
This is a fantastic response, thank you.
Voluntary voting will always lead to disparity among content. People are pretty horrible at determining somethings value and we certainly can't see everything. Community consensus through automated processes would go much farther, and I wouldn't be surprised if something like this is already in development.
True! Whales and dolphins who have much invested would be wise to delegate certain people to find good content, flag poor content, and only regularly upvote things that can't be found elsewhere. It's true that there is so much content that if you have not established yourself and have people reading most of your posts, it's likely it may fall to the bottom even if it has a great idea or way of presenting something. To be scalable things will need to be changed, because right now it would be very difficult if there were soon 1 million users with rapid non stop content like twitter. I don't know how to achieve this, but better minds than mine I'm sure are figuring this out, as I'm sure they knew users would continue to want to sign up and tell their friends.
Your spot on.
