Downvoted. This is an empty cheerleading garbage post that asks users to turn off cricital thinking and treat being a part of steem like being in a cult.
Do I have faith?
Do I believe?
In the founders?
In the leaders, the whales?
this is particularly vomit inspiring.
You are entitled to your opinion, of course, but it isn't necessary to be so rude.
Thank you for stopping by.
So, how do you invest, thinking crtically, as you say @sigmajin eschewing ad hominem & ad nauseam
A tit-for-tat would be downvoting you, @sigmjin
What goes around can come around, @sigmajin
The way, I disagree with someone else's opinion on Steemit is by expressing my opinion, not downvoting them or emotionally bursting out. I understand that this is also an unwritten @Steemit ethic. To each his own, I suppose.
Feel free. Ive been downvoted by the biggest whales on steemit at times, and i still vote/speak my mind.
Empty hype and informercial style spam posts hurt the credibility of the platform, especially when theyre supported by large stakeholders who ought to know better (i mean seriously guys). Theyre a significant part of the reason why we are where we're at now. And btw, no thats not ad hominem. And no its not emotional. And no its not bursting out. Its calling a bad post thats, frankly, part of the problem, out for what it is. If an opinion is actual opinion, rebuttal is useful. If the opinion is empty hype, it should be criticized for what it is. A lords prayer style pledge of loyalty to and faith in whales does not merit rebuttal.
Im also not sure how the kus-kee post is relevant to my reply.
Edit to add -- also describing people who think there is a problem on steemit with recognizing and rewarding quality content as "congential whingers
(spelling corrected)" is an ad hominem attack if ever there was one.edit to add: Initially corrected OP's use of the word "whinger" as I assumed it was "whiner" misspelled. It turns out, its a real word. British, But real nonetheless.
Sometimes we need some brain washing as well ;)
lol. well said
Let the community weigh in on the invective & ad hominem, as well @abit & @sigmajin
Nobody asked me to write this post.
whinged, whing·ing, whing·es Chiefly British.
thats redonkulous. but ok you got me on that one. Leave it to the british to salt my game.
redonkulous.
Yeah nice way to smack down people to reality. :) Now we are going to feed on whale bones :D
I do agree with you actually thanks for making that point, got me out of the loop of thinking that I should pray to somebody :D still the analogy is a good one, but I wouldn't expect archangels on here and making blockchains :D and referencing the boil the crabs analogy as a good thing :D(ok carry them in the bucket and let the top slide off) in the white paper.
Right you are after all Cheers for the reasoning :)
Take it easy.
People have the right to downvote.
Forget the money.
lol money. Even on a trending post, i doubt my dv is worth more than a couple cents. Its more of a statement.
Of course, free speech @abit
Does it include abuse too on Steemit?
@ebryans handled a vehement disagreement with my opionion quite differently.
Or a statement of suggested behaviour? @sigmajin
btw millions have been made an millions have been taken out, I remember a post showing just that a 4:1 ratio of powered down to earned in the platform. All the problems @sigmajin stated are there and aren't being accounted for. Those are some of the main points haunting the system and ned and dan are pretty much ghosts at this point, so when they are needed the most, they are hard forking :D
Also the lack of conversation isn't helping, I havent seen ned or dan active since I got here, there is the occasional interview, but nothing to pump up the hype like the previous year. No big commitments, no nothing, just deadlines, and shuffles, it's a social experiment for me at best at this point that is, and many of the startups here have whooshed off finding their hopes dismantaled. I remember a post like a tweet more like from ned and that's it hes like a celebrity in shooting, spotted aaand hes gone :)
We need to talk for sure :)
Btw what about this :)
https://steemit.com/steemit/@doitvoluntarily/every-one-of-us-can-help-steemit-to-grow
I think you can be a good PR for Steemit, Inc the company. Please consider contact @ned if you have interest but haven't done that.
Thank you, @abit
Of course, I am interested. What's the best way to make contact?
@ned @dan @dantheman
@nigelmarkdias I believe you can find contact info here: https://steemit.com/@steemitjobs . Not all positions are posted there.
Thank you, @abit
Exactly what abuse do you see? I saw a bad post, i pointed out it was bad (and why) and i voted accordingly.
Don't agree with your conclusion, @sigmajin but, you brought out some interesting points in a constructive way in this particular comment.
Therefore, upvoted that particular comment. Having said that:
Would like to thank you, sigmajin
Your enthusiasm has given me some ideas for some fresh posts.
To start with, id ask myself if maybe there's a reason, aside from being born petty and motivated by greed, that the whingers (should not be a word) for whom you have so much contempt maybe have a reason for their dissatisfaction.
On a platform where one of the biggest problems is that it leaks userbase like a sieve, don't you think just attributing dissatisfaction to bad genetics is maybe just a little counter productive.
then maybe rethink statements like this
because aside from being patently false, its more than a little insulting to people who bought in (rather than ninja mined their way in) and have taken a bath since.
Then maybe rethink statements like this:
Because its also patently untrue. The people on the ground floor were ninjas. And dan wrote a blog post about how clever it was to keep most people off of the ground floor. At best, ned and dan invited any investor to join on the second floor. An invitation the acceptance of which resulted in a pretty significant payday.
Which is the fundamental problem with your whole thesis. You want users to stick around and accept not making a profit during what you represent as a nascent period of corporate development where no profit is realized by the organization at all, but whats really a period where significant profit is realized by a very few, at the expense of most users participating for free.
Of course, its upto you to opine on whether you feel a post is good or bad.
Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder :)
Starting from the top, I asked
What would you advise to "think critically" about investing?
btw millions have been made an millions have been taken out, I remember a post showing just that a 4:1 ratio of powered down to earned in the platform. All the problems @sigmajin stated are there and aren't being accounted for. Those are some of the main points haunting the system and ned and dan are pretty much ghosts at this point, so when they are needed the most, they are hard forking :D
Also the lack of conversation isn't helping, I havent seen ned or dan active since I got here, there is the occasional interview, but nothing to pump up the hype like the previous year. No big commitments, no nothing, just deadlines, and shuffles, it's a social experiment for me at best at this point that is, and many of the startups here have whooshed off finding their hopes dismantaled. I remember a post like a tweet more like from ned and that's it hes like a celebrity in shooting, spotted aaand hes gone :)
We need to talk for sure :)
Btw what about this :)
https://steemit.com/steemit/@doitvoluntarily/every-one-of-us-can-help-steemit-to-grow
Holy Upvote Father steem and the Resteem in between I mean the Spirit yeah holy everything and don't mention the name in vain. I guess I agree with you, but it's still a valid point with all the growing concerns and divides.