RE: I'd Take @krnel Over This Shit
I think the fact that people are able to buy votes for their posts - no matter how crappy they are - is a heavy load on the system. It’s not about the content you create, it is about how much money you can invest.
As a result, if - as a minnow - you want to get your post seen, you’re almost forced to play along.
I don’t agree when you say it has become too easy to earn. Thousands of minnows and red fish are struggling each day to try to get a basic understanding of how the platform works, working for hours trying to produce a quality piece of content, only to earn cents...
It’s the minority that can spend big bucks and throw hundreds of Dollars at the bots to get their post to trending and “earn” hundreds of Dollars.
It’s a shame they are the billboard of a platform where so many people at least try to create a good piece to post.
This platform is killing itself. Such a shame, ‘cos there is a truckload of potential. But Blockchain technology is evolving fast, and sooner or later another platform will be created and SteemIt will die alone...
I agree, Steem and Steemit started off with some big issues which have allowed inequality to rise and an oligarchy to reign . I think @dan has learned some big lessons and will code a better system on EOS.
If Steemit is to survive some major changes will have to happen but the ones with the most power to make those changes are the ones that benefit from the way things are.
Vote buying should have been banned from the start.
Rant over. I will still continue the produce content here and try to be the change I want to see on steemit, i suppose that's all I can do.
Same here. I’m not a top notch writer, but I’m giving it my best to produce valuable content. Also, I’m trying to pass on that message to newcomers :0)
Keep doing what your doing. Hopefully a platform comes along where content pays out fairly and you don't have whales raping the reward system
I agree. There are some major fundamental flaws that people are exploiting for huge gain that are destroying this platform.
You have people like Haejin that has multiple accounts irrationally supporting him where his 20 min video is being upvoted to a tune of $150 within a minute of posting. They aren't even attempting to hide the scam they have going on. Yet people still mindlessly follow him and provide positive feedback, etiher because they are too dumb to realize what is going on or they hope that he will upvote them (not likely since he pretty much only upvotes himself).
Some of these issues could be easily fixed, some are more complicated. Trying to fix some of these issues could create new ones. I think any system where people police themselves are almost destined for failure.
True. It’s sad to say, but people are simply not responsible enough to make something like this work... :0(