Hi everybody,
I want to open a debate about the usage of Steemit, or let's say about the drift that Steemit took thanks to the way people use it.
I'm a new/old user, which means I started one and a half year ago, quitted for a while and now restarted. The reason was that I lost my password, but I cannot deny that laziness played a big role too.
I remember the reason why I started using Steemit: getting rewarded for the good contents I share with the community. The purpose was not just earning money as any other job, but focusing on something I like, share it with the community and getting a fair reward for my efforts which normally weren't rewarded at all.
It was a way to take back the value we all dissipate by using other social networks (for free), which in turn they collect pieces of information about us: the only purpose is selling us other things and create new needs in our poor lives.
@freiheit introduced me to Steemit and now he's moving away because he believes new users are not using this social network in the right way: all his reasons are explained in this post.
Here's a brief quote from his post:
Everyone that goes begging for votes in telegram chats, is killing Steemit. I still believe that good contents can be fairly rewarded, even though it's getting harder and harder, especially if you start from zero. A lot of good users are publishing valuable contents like, for instance, this guy @miyata1987 which I don't know but he's make brilliant drawings every day and get unfairly rewarded, while I see loads of poor contents way too highly appreciated. Another mention to my friends @yoganarchista and @sature which thanks to the good contents and the good rewards are opening a psychedelic bookshop in Berlin - here's the site - so yes, they are getting good rewards, but because the DESERVE IT, not because they buy votes. We all agree that Steemit can be a great way to make money, but...Weren't we here to fight against the system, somehow? Weren't we here to change something? What I see is that we are applying (or better who's using Steemit in a bad way) here the same bad patterns we're trying to get rid of. I would like to know your opinions about, more than getting your upvote: I will get as much as I deserve anyways, but right now I would like to hear your voices about the community we are in, about the tool we use every day. Have a nice and happy day ;)
Everyone that buys votes or sells votes, is killing Steemit.
Everyone that swaps his vote, is killing Steemit.
Every whale that is not here just to make a short-term speculation should start red flagging every single post of each person that has a similar behavior. Whales should infiltrate themselves in telegram chats, to discover this actions and start red flagging people behaving in this selfish way.