You're exactly right. At first it's quite easy to get disappointed and even angry by some things you see here. For example there are users who will post multiple articles of ''low quality'' every day and will get hundreds of Upvotes. But what's important to understand is that if they are not offering quality then they are offering something else to the platform. If they offer nothing then the community will eventually punish them as you said very correctly.
It's also important to understand what Steemit needs, decide what you can offer and finally invest in that. The better you understand what people need and the more effort you put in giving them what they need, the better the outcome.
Awesomely put.
This. this is all the money.
exactly. Once someone understands what is the their true gift, what aspect of themselves is unique, and unlike any other, then they may start to be in a flow, which really means detachment, which in turn forms a cash flow.
Yes. If done correctly, even trolling can be fun in its own way.
So, how is that different than saying a drug dealer is offering value to the community, b/c people are buying their product? Clickbait is popular but that doesn't make it good for the community. I don't know what the answer is, but buying/wanting isn't the same as needing or it being good for you.
and how or why is that bad? Drugs offer many things to people. The fact that they have been demonized doesn't make them inherently evil.
@joyninja
You are trying to make a moral judgement about drugs, but that's not the issue here. Demand/Supply don't care about the morality of the goods/services being traded. If there is demand for something, there will always be someone out there willing to provide what is demanded. There is nothing in this world that is 100% bad or 100% good. And as kyriacos said, many times our perception of bad/good is affected by other factors (eg media) and not by objective information. I think, for example, that it's quite likely that recreational drugs will become a normal thing in our lives in the future. Maybe not exactly the ones we have today, but as demand for them will increase, better ones will be made.