RE: Imagine If Facebook Acquired Steemit...
haha Well, let's not fool ourselves into thinking that there aren't thoughtless people all over steemit already. The amount of spam comments and half-hearted articles/posts on here are astounding. Also, keep in mind that there are HUGEEEEE amounts of people on here who are purely opportunistic and see it as an investment opportunity, ESPECIALLY whales.
It's an imagined scenario and honestly, the alternative is they create their own and Steemit loses a HUGE potential user base. I love Steemit and I pray that doesn't happen. Don't think for a second that Facebook will not be part of the cryptocurrency world. If the cryptocurrency market doesn't fold in on itself, we will see Facebook, Amazon, and many other tech giants adopting Cryptocurrency or creating their own Blockchain (likely the latter, since they'll multiply their money hugely by doing so).
Cryptocurrency is capitalist too, don't forget. It's about a free market and an unrigged financial system. Not that there aren't already problems with that, those being that people who were first/people who have influence are creating/promoting coins and making fortunes at the expense of other projects, purely because of their influence (sometimes because the technology is great and has merit). Creators of Ripple, The Creator Of Steem (and now EOS), Ethereum, etc.; they all have a huge power now and they are and will wield it in different ways that some disagree with.
agreed to an extent, but I would want firm guidelines on how this platform is to work and implement before allowing that. such as no advertisement, no monopolies, no user tracking and paid for content... otherwise we all might as well go back to FB meming.
Prior to the bitconnect collapse, @craig-grant was getting 100s of dollars per post and they were mostly about his day... to say that many azzhats aren't already getting paid ridiculous amounts for ridiculous posts, is not looking at the current picture. There are some awesome whales/dolphins with awesome content, but some are crap, and that probably won't change much.
yeah, a set of guidelines would be important. There are definitely GLARING problems with Facebook (all of those you mention above!). :)
and i really think ned needs to bite it and implement some guidelines for abuse. im all for libertarianism but he's letting the azzhats ruin the platform.
Yeah, Steemit does has some problems too, far less than Facebook of course. But it's still so new and we're growing so rapidly, so I'm very excited about Steemit's changes to come in general. :)