RE: My Proposal : Kill the whales, Change the reward system from SP weighted to reputation weighted 我的提议:用信用分权重代替SP权重
The whole system is biased from the start. By inviting useless users who want to make a quick buck first instead of the smartest people in the world (univ teachers, professionals in every field, univ students, etc).
Money is flowing to the wrong people, Power too. Instead of a platform that should be creating value to the world we have a platform full of users trying to extract money from it.
In the long run i believe the whole platform and steem will collapse, because you can't sustain such withdraws of wealth forever if you don't actually create real value. Less than 1% of the posts created on steemit are worth something. The rest is not valuable.
I believe that's why the whales are all powering down, because they smell blood : http://steemdown.com/
less than .1 % of post are worth something just like the real world. everyone has an opinion on what is great content. our opinions don't matter. the crowd can be stupid. trump won the republican nom and cnn is considered a news channel. that's how stupid the world really is.
I agree with everything you said.
I wrote the same last night
https://steemit.com/steemit/@logic/steemit-as-direct-projection
Good point.
I understand and have empathy with your concerns, but I do not agree with your conclusions. There are no mid to long term facts or analysis yet to support your claims. I suggest Steemit is still in "early adaptors/innovators" phase. A community of 55-60K is still nothing compared to FB, Twitter or YT.
My policy is "wait and see".
I have been a university level lecturer and know 2 professors signed up today as a direct result of my posting about Steemit in a private online Educators forum that we are members of. Why private? Because we have been discussing the way forward for non-censored educational material and methods in the coming years, where environments like Reddit, FB, YT; the various online educational hosts - Udemy, Skillshare, etc. and "traditional" educational institutions do not get to dictate, control or censor ideas.
There has been talk and hope of a platform like "Steemit" for some time now.... and quite a bit excitement and hope for the future now it is here.
Instead of whining about what is beyond our control - other people's content and opinions - let us focus on what we can control. Cream always rises to the top. Be the change you wish to see in the world. Sorry for cliches, but they are clichés for a reason.