@joseph I like that you wrote this piece. I feel like there is a lot of times that people are afraid to speak their mind on here because suddenly it isn't politically correct and we will be viewed as a loose cannon so we won't be auto voted.....etc Or piss people off.

I have mixed feelings about what you have said. The sock puppet situation that was going on in the past was really bad and we lost a lot of actual people who took on the challenge of creating content for this platform from the situations that were draining the reward pool. In my opinion it almost destroyed the platform. If I wasn't so stubborn I would have left for good as well. I do agree with you that it does become a high barrier to meet to join Steemit and create content here but honestly in a lot of ways it is always going to be that way in my opinion. Cryto currency is going to be tough for anyone to grasp for a longtime and dealing with it through the exchanges isn't going to get much easier anytime soon.

I agree with you on what you have said about certain users being brought here that had supposed followings and got hugely rewarded why some of us were grinding it out post after post for months and maybe got a couple thousand dollars out of it when a makeup post made $31,000.

Some people feel that we need to make this big push to beg these successful content creators on other platforms to come over here and post. To be honest I could care less. If they want to come then fine but I don't care if they don't come. Even just building this out further within the cryto community can be very lucrative for all of us. I have told some friends about this platform but do I care that they aren't here posting. Not really. It is their loss.

Really when it comes down to it there are like 50 people on here willing to show their faces and there is always going to be drama because people are always going to feel like certain people don't deserve the payouts.

Steemit is a weird place but I love it!