I've been reading some posts on this platform for roughly 1 week now and my opinion of it is that it's a good idea that is not working well. This is an opinion post. You can agree or disagree, I'm fine with either.
When you've money incentives to create content, you'll get crap content (low quality content) most of the time, also known as spam. Now, in a normal platform, spam would not get upvoted. Here, spam/shitty-content seems to be upvoted quite frequently. Why is that? I'm not entirely sure, but I believe people upvote things mostly for the images. If you've an image of a cozy place, with a cup of coffee and a cat, you'll get good money, regardless of the content.
There recently was a guy (https://steemit.com/@ruthofisrael) that posted the exact same post 4 times in a row. In the same day he posted 4 times the same post. Exactly the same. I think in 8 hours he had 1 post copied 4 times?
What would be the outcome if this were a "fair" (for the lack of a better word) system? In my opinion, 1 of the 4 posts would be upvoted and the other 3 would either be downvoted or simply not-upvoted. That's not what happened. All the 4 posts were upvoted and every single one is earning him 60+ usds. That's right, he's getting 60*4=240usd by posting the exact same post 4 times. Is this his fault? No, it's the community's fault.
Go to the science tag and read the entries there. Anti global-warmings posts, anti-vaccination posts. Really, what the fuck? These kind of posts should not exist, much less be tagged as science. Somehow, (really, how?) some of these posts are getting 100+usd!! That means people are agreeing with them. Am I the only one in this platform that's downvoting these guys?
How the hell does an anti-vaccination post gets 100+ usd? Does steemit cater to the dumber part of society?
Having said that, I know that not everone is a low-content creator and/or an insane dumb conspiracy person. For those that are not, please tell me your opinion on all this. I really am interested in reading your thoughts.
Here's a picture of a cozy place:
