Im new to Steemit, but the reason I joined was because of the underlying spirit behind Steemit or as I percieved it anyways. In my naive mind I only saw a community that rewarded good conduct and content and where it seemed to be a verry small platform for trolling and other simillar conduct thats festering alot of other social media communities. I hade no idea about this dark side that your talking about and appreciate the insight and eyeopening that you brought to me.
I do hope that the spirit as i percieved it about steemit is what will prevail in the long run however. It does seem to still just be in its infacy and theres allways ”bugs” in the beginning. ;)