Well there is so much irrelevant "Crap Content" here, it takes time to find good posts and its now taking longer to do so. Unlike most Whales, I don't use bots to reward my friends or favorites and my time is valuable and my votes hardly counts at 3 cents per up-vote.
Its just great that bikini girls on their vacation are making $1,000 - $2,000 a post for taking pictures of their food. Its good work if you can get it, I salute you, but I will never be you.
YouTube has Pewdiepie and Stupid Cat videos that make tons of cash, I get it Vox Populi. Votes are a popularity contest.
The problem is I am seeing there is just too much content to evaluate each day and as far as I know, there is no way to filter it all, so I see at least most of what I want.
The Whales own Steemit and can and will do what they want. This platform will never be user controlled in the sense of regular people having real power over the direction of the platform. So who cares what the Whales think, want and do. I have no control over them. Threatening me, makes me care less, not more.
Newsflash, most of us, have a life outside of Steemit.
The more I participate, the more I think this was a really good idea, but the implementation, with its own separate currency was misguided. Hopefully the free market will look back at Steemit as a pioneering idea, that just missed the mark and was superseded by other platforms that paid its authors for their quality content and wasn't controlled by a small group of financial elites.
Eyes Wide Open
100% agree. Someone will take a photo of a vegetable soup in restaurant and get 100$ and someone will cook same soup at home, spend time, money, input effort and post a nice blog for 0.10$ and then he will be disappointed. That 0.10 will become 0.05 when is time to be paid, and because he has power to give some 0.05$ votes he will be also threaten after some time that if he doesnt start to vote he will lose that "power"
There are elites here and nothing is in control by people or users, everything is in control by whales. If you really want Steemit to success in a long run, then think how to make it more fair, where the quality and the effort is paid and not the connections, friends and publicity will play the most important role.
You could always become the H3H3 of Steemit and make parody posts. I'd totally upvote you doing some "Redneck Riviera" vacation blogs with pics of you in a bikini!
My larger point here is that Ethan (H3H3) isn't the most attractive dude by American standards, and he's had the added challenge of being an internet content creator with Tourette's. People like him because he's authentic and hilarious, not because he's easy on the eyes.
Thanks, just checked out his videos. He is hilarious :p