The biggest problem I have with every argument I've seen concerning the guilds over the past couple of weeks, is that for the most part, the loudest of those who are adamantly opposed to the guilds happen to be among a very select few that have consistent support of certain whales, and therefore they appear to have no need of the guilds.
Ive been pretty loud about thinking the guilds are some bullshit and i don't have the consistent support of any whales.
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its hard to know exactly what voting would be like without the guilds, because they've been around, in one form or another, since jumpstreet.
My problem with the guilds is that their method of paying their curators works at cross purposes to their stated intention in two ways.
By taking a considerable amount of money from the rewards pool for cookie cutter content thats posted as a pretext for whales to pay them for their curation, they make it so everyone gets fewer rewards, when their stated intent is to make everyone get more rewards.
By posting low-quality cookie cutter content, then elevating it to the top of trending every single day to make their payroll, they showcase bad content, where they propose to improve the quality of content on steemit by showcasing good content.
True. And I know that you actually do have steemit and its users best interests in mind. But I still maintain that without the guilds there would be far fewer people getting recognition. Unless you can show me how I'm wrong about that. I talk to a lot of people, and well over ninety five percent of them rely on guilds for the financial aspect of this platform. Yes, there are many whose rewards are inconsistent, which sucks, but their rewards are still coming from the guilds, which means they would have none without them.
But this is the actual point that I'm making, or the question(s) that I'm asking: I'm not attacking anyone, I'm just completely confused as to what it is the people arguing about the guilds are trying to achieve. What can be done that's better, how can it be done, and who is going to do it?
I should probably just stick with this and not make any other statements because every time I comment people tend to respond to everything but. Though I'll probably just be ignored.
By the way, the only thing that these posts of the past several days seem to have accomplished are less overall activity from the guilds...and the result has been less people making money, or making less money at any rate.
Yay.