RE: Maybe this shouldn't have been my first post
Well think about it this way,
Steemit is a website where your persona makes you real coldhard cash. An upvote isn't just an upvote. It's reputation, power and potential followers. The situation here reminds me of that black mirror episode where the everyone was rating each other.
Basically you're trying to impress whales, but most people tend to think that as long as they are commenting they are doing something. I mean they are, but that doesn't mean it's adding anything of value.
You see the word reputation and think that it means being the greatest person ever.
I'm not saying it's great that the site functions like this right now, but I get it. Think of it as a game, figure out how to play it. If you don't that's fine and maybe this post will(in a weird sort of way) help some people play the game better.
Maybe it is a game but it would be helpful for all to also express an idea right? Otherwise we will get bored after a while, like we get bored of all games.
I am not saying we should not say we like an article. But we should not say just that. We should add more, say why we like it at least.
In fact I will say like the others:
Thank you for your comment!
and sorry if I can't see
the whole pictureyet, I am new to this and probably the truth is somewhere in the middle. Everybody has it's own truth, maybe greater truth is a mix of all truths?I don't know, I'm just saying.
Spam is a necessity, even in games. Feel free to quote me :P
I'm not saying that comments should be a circle jerk and, sometimes, on this site especially, they are.
What I'm saying is that people who play the game like that probably won't get very far, but they'll stop playing like that once they figure out it isn't working.
If a comment doesn't acctually hold any content, i'm not inclined to interact with it.
If I want to comment on it, if it's in a positive light, then I'll upvote it and I think that eventuelly most people will do the same.
No one has a genuine reaction to "Nice post"
Give people time to be real.