I agree with some of your concerns, but things like this are popping up all over:
They probably will only continue to do so. While I agree with you that things are not the greatest now, I don't quite share your doom and gloom picture of the future.
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I don't think you quite grasp the concerns...
Things like project curie, project robbinhood whale, project upvote, etc.. shouldn't be a neccessity for the site.
Sure they are great ideas to "help" the stuggling minnow, but if the distribution was much better there wouldn't be a need for such projects and they wouldn't exist.
The 2nd big issue with these projects - The posting payouts. Project curie makes $500+ a post each day
Robbinhood whale made multiple thousands, and is just powering down...
Your post you just referenced is nearing $700.
Maybe im looking at it backwards, but when you say "help" it seems to me that this "help" is being rewarded quite nicely.
anyways, enough ranting for me. Good post @kyriacos, I would believe the majority of users will agree. Hopefully things change for the better... There needs to be a 2nd wave of new users to keep this ship from sinking.
"Sure they are great ideas to "help" the stuggling minnow, but if the distribution was much better there wouldn't be a need for such projects and they wouldn't exist." exactly!
Just think, newbies are coming online to EARN Steem, not BUY it, so the price continues to fall. It's basic economics here: supply is outstripping demand.
Let's hope the Steem demand picks up before the price craters - there I've said it now! The marketing people at Steemit have many hard marketing miles ahead.
I am a full-hearted supporter of Steem before you start going berserk in the comments section, but we must speak our mind to save our crypto!
@stellabelle - I really wish we'd both been in on this initial project earlier - as senior posters we'd have stayed closer to the minnow heartbeat!
Shouldn't be necessary, but they clearly are... And more of them are coming. That is how the distribution will take place. The earnings you see from Curie and others is used to reward authors and pay the staff that is helping them. The next wave of users that come will have a much better retention rate from these kinds of projects... The site has a much better chance of succeeding now than it did 3 months ago.
Curie has established more and more limits on their reward criteria, while making more and more from each of their posts. Additionally, the whales that have so generously decided to donate so little of their voting power to this project continue to vote (with full power I might add) on shitty posts from authors like @dollarvigilante and @charlieshrem
Instead of complaining about the way things are... why not go about trying to solve the problems as you see them? That is what I am trying to do...
I did for a while. Like a good little Steemian, I contributed to Curie, continued to write quality content for smaller payouts and things continued to get worse. I commend higher-level users like you for trying to right the ship, but at this point I am powerless to do anything and am fed up.