RE: Eating Your Own Dog Food: Is the Steemit, Inc Team Regularly Using Steemit?
@lukestokes Like you I'm not trying to talk smack about the platform or any particular person or some of the technical issues they are working on but I will say this. The lack of communication from Steemit Inc has been an issue from day one and was always very concerning.
There was always a worry that the whole thing was a money grab to be honest. Then they were always pretending to be looking for people to hire when there were actually tons of very qualified individuals who have spent all types of time on the platform. They were always "collecting resumes."
It really seems like the 3rd party developers are making better progress on shoe string budgets compared to Steemit Inc who is Bitty Rich!
I always gauge the way people talk about the platform on and off of Steemit and to tell you the truth there are so many people who feel like STEEM was distributed improperly up front and that it is totally unfair so they don't really want to come back to it. Jerry Banfield puts up videos about STEEM and the haters on YouTube come in hard and downvote it.
Overcoming the bad reputation is proving to be very hard for STEEM / STEEMIT.
I could blog here full time for years and never make as much as makeup girl did in her first couple posts and I'm one of the lucky content creators on here. I have over 6500 posts
Is it worth me powering up $50,000 to have a $4 upvote?
I just worry that this platform will always just be a very small core group of whales who were here 2 months before me and that there is not really going to be a way for us to overcome that.
are you referring to Sweetsjjjj ? :P
No, Sweetsssssssssjjjjjjj is cool. She put in the grind. She has the financial backing that allowed her to make it through the rough times on Steemit and continue to produce content. I like her.
The person I'm talking to got paid big bucks for no real reason back in July 2016.
https://steemit.com/beauty/@guerrint/the-first-steemit-makeup-turtorial-bringing-youtubers-to-steemit
31K for her makeup tutorial. We can't blame her for the situation but it was like this weird situation of trying to show how people can make all this money from the platform and then people would come here and spend 5 hours putting together a post and get paid $0.04. So it just pissed a bunch of people off and made them think the platform was fake.
We have always dealt with a situation of the platform not being about good content but just who you know. It turns a lot of people off.
@rulesforrebels has 68,000 YouTube subscribers and has put in tons of time on here and makes about $0.25 / post. What does that really tell people.
It just makes it look like the original people who were of benefit of the unfair initial distribution are still ruling like god kings and there is no way for other people to get in the mix.
Don't get me wrong. STEEM has huge potential, it always has.....but everytime I think it is going to buck the bad reputation it has in the crypto world it can't escape it..........
Still bullish...... belie dat
Still fighting for this platform.......... too much potential here!
The distribution of wealth is my biggest frustration. I've addressed this before , but the only result was , some whales sworn not to upvote me anymore because of that. A bit sketchy ! It sometimes feels like a pyramid game !
Yeah I get your feeling for sure. On about every platform "Leave It To Beaver" level happiness gets rewarded more.
In situations where someone brings up legit concerns it generally is considered negative........etc.
The #1 issue with STEEM form the beginning was that the distribution was completely screwed up. Then after that happened it was mainly too expensive for people to really power up into it.
Someone might say, "why didn't you buy STEEM when it was $0.07" Well probably because Steemit Inc, Dan, and Ned were powering down their STEEM and dumping it and weren't communicating with the community.
It was like we were left for dead. It just didn't look like a wise investment and that it had a very good chance of coming back.
For real though.....It has tons of potential........ hopefully it can realize it. I don't want this to be a Beta Max / Sega Dreamcast story
Steemit Inc best scenario is to just hire the 3rd party developers and content creators who broke their backs for the platform. @andrarcy was a good choice. There are about 50 more they should hire / support to get STEEM to take over.
But they won't........... They are set for life so it doesn't matter to them if STEEM takes over.
It only matter to us that have fought for this platform but we don't have the funding to make the proper stand.