There are posts from people that are not happy with the state of steemit and where it is going. There is a lot of blame on the bots but getting rid of them will not solve everything. The problem is still visibility and spreading of rewards. These are being addressed when communities come out but I do think we need to further spread out the voting power to make it easier for new accounts and content creators.
That being said, even at its current state, it is still worlds ahead of every site out there. I am not exaggerating. I am telling you as a professionally published author who spends a lot of time looking and trying out new sites nothing comes close to steemit. No other sites rewards users on a daily basis and models like advertising and subscriptions are great only if you get a large following. And both of those can be applied here. Literally steemit is the only site right now that is a viable option and will only get better.
Now we should not get lazy. We really need to make changes and I get the frustration about the site. But this frustration comes from knowing how great this site can be not because the site isn't any good. I do hope there are changes soon and I am asking @ned to take it into mind where the site is heading. I know they are working hard on communities and that should help a lot but more voting changes can also increase the site for new users.
That's my two cents on the topic.
People keep forgetting: Steemit is only a few year old! It literally entered its third year about a month ago. In two years people who doubted it are going to look very, very dumb.
I am thoroughly happy with Steemit, and this current situation with the bidbots and the ability it affords me to award myself for my work. I'm investing my money into my worth. But let's not get all gushy on Steemit. It isn't revolutionary. It's just as dimly conceived as any other financial reward system, and so it frustrates large numbers of people. The fix, here on Steemit as well as in any other financial system is this: The more successful you become, the less your voting power. That means rich people would actually have to do some work, but it means that poor people would have much less of a burden to carry the entire load in terms of effort, and it means you could choose where you want to sit on that spectrum. Anyone can get creative about making a system that rewards the wealthy with power, but it isn't revolutionary. Creative, maybe. Revolutionary? No... That's why so many people want change, and as long as that is the root motivation in a financial system, then you will constantly be under the labor of appeasing the masses. Because the power actually belongs to the masses. Otherwise, Steemit wouldn't have any need in continuing growth. I am very very grateful for Steemit, and this entire community. I'm grateful for the way the bidbots work now, and I wouldn't change it. It wouldn't fix anything to get rid of bidbots because the problem will show up in a different way if you did. Take the voting power away from wealth and you'll have a revolution...that's the fix. Distribute the voting power evenly regardless of wealth, or turn the thing upside down where the wealthiest accounts have the least voting strength, and the poorest accounts have the most voting strength.
Until then, I can beg for votes, or I can buy votes. Honestly, I would rather buy them than beg, so kudos to Steemit. It's the most exciting opportunity I have seen come from technology yet. But it isn't revolutionary. Hard work doesn't earn you anything from the rewards pool. Wealthy players do.
(I would say "Amen!", but I am not religious, so...)
Yea, verily, yea!
Haha! Thanks! Verily! My morning posts can be a little spicy...I appreciate the comment, Sabina. :)
:) Have a memorable day!
I appreciate that! It is a very notable day...
There are posts from people that are not happy with the state of steemit and where it is going.
I did not read the whole article. However, on the bots, they vote 1.6 below most often of the votes on the blockchain, yet they reap 10-11% of the pool,
I am not saying they do not need changes but there is no pool on other sites.
I am not disagreeing with you, I have read the article now, I do think it is a great site misused in some ways, it is relatively new too, things are bound not to be perfect and take time to correct. I do not know as much as most about this stuff, the bot thing is just one thing I picked up on.
I hope the changes are made soon :)
If you want to check out the hive group, brand new tiny and wanting to change the world, A group I formed to try to grow along with others at the same time, If the principal concept works here, we can make real changes in the physical world too, if you use discord that is, you can also read our posts at @thehive
That's my point, a little more user friendly for new users will really so great, however it's our platforms no matter what
I agree with you that no other site can be compared to steemit but at the same, steemit need a lot of changes.
If you join steemit without putting in money or know one of the whales, you will find it really difficult to grow.
I have been on steemit since February and I must tell you that it has been frustrating.
It feels really frustrating to post good contents after spending time without any reward yet we have people who just post pictures and get over $600.
Steemit need to close the gap between whales and minnows.
Sometimes these whales instead of upvoting us, they will downvote we minnows just because we made little complain.
@whatageek I must tell you that it isn't easy with minnows like me
I agree 100%, I want to see changes on this site asap
Thanks
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agree if the new user should get support, let the spirit of the work of quality.
sata also agree if Steemit more profitable than other sites, because in addition to get a place to write, also get rewards from upvote results.
please keep supporting new account🙏🙏
Well I love some of the channels here...like yours. :). Secret for minnows....@sydesjokes has a great daily faucet that has great rewards.
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Definitely this is a good platform and I love it. But the problem is- sometimes newcomers get frustrated when good content are not being evaluated after putting so many effort and hard work. Thanks for nice topic sharing.
If the same amount of effort went towards fixing Steemit's discovery and distribution issues as is going towards building new bidbots, building and maintaining bot tracking tools, and even building things like TransparencyBot, then we'd have already solved the problem.
Trick is, those with the most to gain from SP delegation are the ones associated with fixing Steemit's flaws.
Now, I don't think the flaws are glaring, but they are definitely counter-productive in the long run.
Yes in future this will a single socail network but its right that there must be some changes and these change will be here after some time.