Steemit.com was a breakthrough, even in the cryptoshphere. It has been in beta since launched, and there seems to be very little momentum to go beyond beta. There does not seem to be any will to fix the problems, as the people who got involved first benefit from the problems. My strategy is ride this as far as it will go, but keep an eye out on the people who see the potential here, see the problems here, and go make a better platform. I DO think that will happen if there is no effort made to polish steemit.com into the gem it could be.
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Yeah, that makes sense. I use steemit.com on my phone and may not see the issues. It seems to work well. We haven't been on this type of media site before so it seems great. I hope it lasts. We have experienced nothing but positive and uplifting interactions! I would hate for that to change.
Steemitcleaners acused me of "tag abuse" and "spam" when I was still VERY new, and it just crushed me. I did not know they were running BOTS who had decided I was raping the reward pool with my post that got less than a quarter... The HUMAN interactions have been almost entirely wonderful, save one self righteous vegan but that is just life... lol! The bots nearly ran me off. I mute every account that I find out runs bots now. I am here for the people... like YOU!
Nice! The people are great. I don't have much experience with bots. I was advised to not post more than 4 times in a day. Makes sense. Since we have started seeing our world as content there are so many ideas! If I post more than once in a day I try to use different tags. I could especially make more videos haha.
OK, you are making an assumption that I did something bad, I did not. I was NOT spamming, I was NOT abusing tags. If a human had read the post, it would have never happened. A bot followed an algorithm and decided to make a nasty comment to me. A bot with a rep score of over 70, I thought my account was DONE.
Whoa....no assumptions😀at all....and I completely agree. A bot like that could have ended roughly.
Yeah, I am still touchy... Bots with vote power and that kind of ability to ruin accounts are the boogey man here. Everyone fears the "angry whale" but then acts like there is nothing we can do except tiptoe around and try to avoid their wrath. Not really the epitome of "free speech" that way...
<3 We are really thinking the same way. I would like it if steemit could change to fix these issues, but I'm also ready to move my focus somewhere else if something based more in equality and more community oriented comes around.
@whatamidoing & @freedompoint Don't you think when people with a lot of steem(whale size) power now are going to cash in(power down) their Steem power for dollars once the market price of steem goes toward the 100$ as you mentioned earlier? I really like your poin of view, though, and I hope it is going to be fixed. But I honestly think once you reach some kind of saturation point that whales will power down and new honest content creators rise higher, besides a whale who has shit content can only be at the top for so long.
If that's what they choose to do, sure, some steem will go back into the wild. But they can continue to cash out their sbd gains from posting and curation (maybe even self voting) and keep their massive power and influence.
And who is to stop some outside agent (let's say an account run by facebook) to buy a ton of steem and start using it in ways that are counter productive to the community. I don't see how its safe, fair or sustainable in the long run to have such a disparity in the distribution of wealth.
I do think there are whales who will work to push things in the direction you say, but the problem is systematic and cultural, not personal.