For steem to thrive, we simply need to use the platforms as intended. Upvote quaility posts, comment, and post, and in that order.
There are still those out there that are using their upvote power mainly for themselves and rarely if ever visiting the work of others. This makes it very difficult for a newbies to break in, for Dolphins and Minnows to do their work and believe me, we do most of the work for the platforms, and for positive word of mouth to spread.
WE NEED POSITIVE WORD OF MOUTH.
For some reason, people seem to gravitate towards using their VP to punish the abusers and not to support those that use the platform as intended. But that only hammers us all down because of the negative press connected to it.
Let me illustrate the point of why its important to spread your VP around in positive way.
Let say I am a whale with 100 000 SP. I vote mainly for myself and/or and hammer down the competition. We get steem worth 33 cents. My networth is 33 000. I make a couple hundred a week in payouts.
Now, I start to upvote those working hard creatively for the blockchain. Before they were making a quarter a week and now all of sudden because of more upvoting they are making 10 times that and there is lots of comment traffic. Steemit is making tons of ad revenue. Users are flocking in and steem is now worth a modest 1. (Could be worth a lot more) My networth is now 100 000. Its tripled and with less effort from me. I am making more in curation rewards and even more in author rewards too and with fewer posts.
We are a single entitiy on the steem blockchain. Infighting and hoarding is self-cannibalization. There is no limit to our growth and we should feed that instead.
Isn’t that a dream? People by human nature are jealous and envious. Helping others is often just for show and not because it makes people feel better. Doing things for themselves makes them feel better. And human nature can’t see the big picture, big picture that sometimes helping others helps themselves. Sometimes even more than they could dare to imagine.
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Human nature is malleable and helping others does make you feel good. There are loads of people on here walking this path. For those who are not, we point out it is their best interest. They’ve yet to understand this. New balance will only be achieved and not a whole sale change. That is true. But we can work in the direction we want to see. When the wind is not favourable, you don’t turn back: you tack to get where you are going.
Very true, but that’s the thing with unfavourable wind, there’s always more deserters than those who believe in cause and see it through. It’s just easier to abandon ship. You’re right about showing them the better way though, let’s keep the conversation going and show there are people who will not turn away and who believe.
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