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Patriot the clairvoyant , "I sense some anger and exasperation....."
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..I have had 2 biggy upvotes - 7 or 8 months ago - $80 and $120. Since then nothing.
I wonder at the 'real' motivations behind steemit.
It certainly doesn't seem like 'the blogging social website site where you can earn money from content ', does it?
I'll up vote you, but can you please keep your posts down to ' upvote me' or something?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaall that reading...
Hah, sorry for all the text!
As for the motivation behind Steemit. Good question. The money is up there, for sure. Let's face it: the money is the gimmick and it's the reason why we all got interested.
In addition, the idea of a social media/content site not controlled by entities like Facebook and YouTube was also enticing. That was one of the original gimmicks, but it's long since been forgotten, honestly. Now it's pretty much all about the money.
It's just that the channeling of the money has been centralized to the hands of a few a lot more recently than it ever was. And I never really had a problem in the beginning with the idea of some people making more. Duhh. That's life, that's how it goes. But with the landscape as it is now, it's gotten more and more disingenuine, and it's getting tiresome. The rise of the bots killed a lot of legitimate curation, there's more SP on the market than ever before, it all but kills the "dolphin votes" and most users are pretty much screwed unless they buy the votes.
So, since this can't really be about the money for most us anymore, we need to think of something else. And fun engagement is what keeps people going to Facebook and Reddit, so...
I'm here mostly because there are a few people who read and like my stuff, so that's what motivates me, personally.
Other than that, I dunno.