RE: Steemit's Malicious @steemcleaners downvote ATTACKS
Amazing thing about blockchain is that it's decentrilized and that's why many of us seem to see it as our future.
But currently it seem to me that building social media platform on blockchain isnt such a great idea after all.
Giving power to people is not the best solution. As much as I didnt like facebook bots because sometimes innoccent people would get abused by them.
Unfortunatelly I dont like what I see on steemit as well. Instead of bots we are dealing with planty of "whales" that decided to play "police". And how do they do it? Instead of contacting author or giving him warning - they will start from DESTROYING rewards.
Mentioned @steemcleaners is an excelent example. What he did was wrong on so many levels.
Not only author of the post has been punished but also curators are begin punished too. Our votes (that have little value) are being worth nothing here.
The truth is that I myself decided not to use pretty much any video or picture in my posts. Because seeing unprofessionals in action can easily put you off.
It's just a matter of time before @steemcleaners will end up in court. At the end of the day they are burning authors and curators rewards and they are playing with fire.
Good points raised, @crypto.piotr. Although, I think it is less about "building social media platform on blockchain isnt such a great idea" as much as really "Giving [more] power to [a few] people is not the best solution". That's called an Authoritarian Dictatorship. Also, it would appear that steem is anything but decentralized, given what is being allowed to take place here is so unencumbered still.
Authoritarian Dictatorship ? Ive never heard this expression. But it does make sense.
Unfortunatelly steemit seem to be very unbalanced. I hope it will all change a bit once there will be more new members and value of STEEM will increase at least 100-200%
Yeah, I don't know. That's been the hope from the start. What I'm seeing is, while a lot of people joined last month, many people are leaving and/or just no longer participating here. I am one strongly considering the same too now; or at least need a bit of a break in hopes that @ned will wake up and get the mess straight. I saw yesterday some whales (berniesanders and the gang) singling out the majority of the steem witnesses (BIG WHALES) for not doing anything anymore here, other than taking a lot of the money pool. I still hardly even understand what the heck they are or do. A few of them I've seen very active doing a lot of good, but most of the rest I have never seen. In fact the article went through them in detail of what they contribute and many haven't even been logged onto steem for like months. It's sort of like a house of mirrors... LOL
Anyway, have an awesome SUNday :)
dont give up on steemit mate.
just limit it a little bit and stick around .
ps. who is @ned?
Thanks, @crypto.piotr! Yeah, I'm just still a bit bent out of shape on the steemcleaners mess. I thought I was having a heart-attack from it all and that april-fools joke yesterday. I'm getting too old for this shit.
Since it seems steemcleaners will not remove the links to my posts from his blacklist, that he nuked last Monday and I fully complied with the next day or two, and is allowed to still nuke my account here like this, I've decided to power down and try to take a break to detox a bit from steemit. Maybe that too was his April-fools joke and he will change his mind - who knows, given anyone can go and see my links there, as I write this.
Today makes day 22 of being active here and I think I've hit my limit for the time being. Given what I learned yesterday that it takes 2 years to fully power down to get all my invested money back on steemit, I guess I'll be tied here to some degree anyway for a while. Just that 2 year delay is too much to swallow alone.
@ned is the CEO of Steemit Inc. and basically a co-creator of steem, as I understand it. I just found a post where @dan, the other creator, as I understand, who also created bitshares, is getting close to rolling out Steem II https://steemit.com/steemit/@spiritualmax/steem-ii-announced-what-s-the-name-what-s-the-intent-what-s-the-difference That's something to keep our eye on.
2 years? isnt 13 weeks to power down completly?
is there any other way you could change your Steem power to steem dollar and transfer it to someone (in return for cash?)
I searched and searched and couldn't find any other way, unless maybe if I were to just sell someone the account, but who would even buy an account annihilated like this by @adm? I did later find in the FAQs that it was changed to 13 weeks, but actually in the process I learned that YOU CAN NEVER FULLY POWER DOWN, as you are always required to leave 5 steem in. Plus, the only way to add additional earned SP during that period is to cancel the process and restart it from scratch. So at least from my perspective it seems you can easily invest into steemit, but you are never able to fully get all your funds back and I don't recall ever seeing any sort of legal disclaimer of that fact when powering up.
that would make sense
Steemit does look like ponzi scheme in very many ways.
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Aaaaand you totally missed the small print at the end of the post saying it was an april fools joke. And the tag "april-joke". and me joking in the comments that it's a joke.
(Editing your comment instead of just openly accepting you missed the joke is super rude :P)
Hi suesa
Let me accept your appology on behalf of my friend @positiveenergy.
He had a hard few days lately and I guess he didnt enjoy your joke :)
Cheers, Piotr
Just noticed that this comment of yours makes it clear that you did know it's a joke, before commenting on my post. So disregard the other comment ^^
Although I don't really feel the need to apologize, I did what I could to make it obvious it's a joke.
Actually the truth is that once I started reading your post somehow I really believed in your words and I forgot that it's all just a joke.
take care buddy :)
Hi suesa,
He knew it because your comment said it was a joke. I went back after I saw your comment saying it was an april-fools joke and saw something scratched on the bottom of your post, which I guess is what you said gave it away, but to be honest it's way too small to read and make out for my eyes.