Steemit in a nutshell
Steemit is like a version of Reddit where people are suddenly nice. They're all like "hey welcome to Steemit" or "great post man!". That's because everything you do (post, comment and vote) will give you some returns in the form of Steem or SBD.
Whereas on Reddit, people are mostly anonymous and it sort of reveals their true colors. How would they react if no one knows who they are? Steemit on the other hand tends to reward those who share with others who they really are (with a couple of exceptions). It gives people incentive to be nice.
Is this a good thing?
Positive view: Finally people can be good to each other and it spreads happy vibes around. Sure, that's true, up to a certain extent.
Negative view: Look at the number of hypocrites surrounding us! What's annoying is those who're saying "i'm only here for the community". Take the possibility of earning Steem away and see what that leaves you. A website with no one! Probably not even the founders. Be true to yourself. You know who love the rewards.
Then there comes the delegations for platforms and communities. Recently all the Ds received delegations from Ned via his other account, misterdelegation.
The issue with this is how are they going to spend the delegation? Are they only upvoting themselves? When you give power and responsibility to someone, there will be some abuse, and that's to be foreseen. It's human nature to be at least a little bit greedy.
Other than "free" delegations, there's also the issue of voting bots and the abuse. People are just sending huge amounts of SBD to get big upvotes. Some see it as a problem, others as a free market where you can do whatever you want.
It seems like you'll find problems in every corner of Steemit. Whenever there's people and money clumped together, issues will arise. People get jealous that others are doing better. Some abuse the power they've been given. It seems like whether it's a decentralized community or a centralized community, you'll never solve the issue of corruption and bad governance. Because it's us, we're the weakness. Not the system.
Ciao.
The issue here is pretty simple but very difficult for most people to accept.
I'll make a full post about this when I have the opportunity.
Guys, the entire point is that Steem is not money.
Steem is Currency. Self-eSteem. Steemit can only fail, like you're saying, if us users fail to innerstand the difference between money and steem. Steem represents charged up currency as mirrored back by others in the community.
Money absorbs currency and can be used later as something weaker. Steem is built with love, money is built with fear.
A painful aspect of our current State of collective Mind, is that most people do not hesitate to transfer all their powerful currency to worthless money. Out of fear. We work from love our steem will grow and we need not worry about the confused capitalists, they will catch up to us eventually.
See, all these concerns disappear if We use steemit to its full inherent potential, the way it is designed.. why we all love it. The issue here is a matter of perspective. Truth is the key to "success" on steemit, the exact same key to success in all of life. Keep your battery charged and know money for what it truly is. Always value currency.. your current vibration, level of joy, reputation, all that. Over worthless money ! And all imaginary problems will soon dissolve.
Thank you for posting this : )
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great post man!
Pretty good analysis of steemit. I personally have mixed emotions about it. I really do love the community aspect of it and everyone playing nice to get paid better, but the whales can be vicious, and it is a very uneven playing field. To me it equates into the mental game of chess. The unfairness, and underhandedness sometimes has a thrilling edge to it. Does it not? Sometimes it's fun to feed a Shark and not get bit, other times it's more comfortable for everyone to be able to swim the waters. Here it's the rich who are rich, and the innovative intelligent minds who find a way to climb the latter. I hope to rise the ranks to at least swim around comfortably. Nice read. Followed.
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