• Maybe you're generalizing based on a couple of sporadic, but in /trending events ?

I felt the negativity, of course and some of the blame is ours. Steemit opened the Pandora box. Very few winners and a lot of frustrated people. This is not an excuse for any behaviour, but it's a fact. You can't be positive in every moment of your life especially when you see everywhere over and over again: "SUCCESS", "SUCCESS", "HOW I WON 15.000$ in 12h" and other titles from the people bragging.

Maybe the intention was a noble one: "Look ! I won. You can also do this." but I have my doubts. We are humans and we like to brag pretty easily.

• On the other hand, THIS IS NOT AN EXCUSE. But be careful. Generalized negativity is not the result of psychopaths, bad people, evil people, etc. I said "generalized negativity", not someone's temporary bad mood. Generalized negativity builds over time. WE ALL NEED TO BE CAREFUL.

• But this is not the case. I didn't saw any outrageous behavior here (except earnest that had a thing with lauralemons).

• After we manage to change the reward distribution to more user types, not only to authors and after we'll balance this distribution more appropriate, the "anger" will dissipate. Slowly. Because will not have something to hang.

By the way, I'm saying "WE" because we are a community, but, actually, the platform is ned's, dan's. I'm feeling like a GUEST in a PROJECT with its own rules. But I want to contribute as I can (and have the time).

My part ? Commenting. Making comments so long that TL:DR. :)

“Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy