Steemit has become an income spring for too many; a bottomless well of opportunities is being robbed by dozens and dozens of those who consider the webside to be an oil well and when committing their crime they never neglect plagiarism and write some full-of-sorrow-and-pain-stories. In the very beginning Steemit was about producing some high-quality content and providing the system with necessary funds. Still today the number of worthless and empty posts is growing, getting upvotes and filling the feed with rubbish.
This post is my fervent supplication to all the newcomers - please, don't consider Steemit to be a bottomless money well, don't flood the platform with useless posts about sex, drugs or naked girls (sure, they are nice but that kind of stuff does not correspond with Steemit's ground-pillars) trying to make money on other people's bodies and thoughts. Be FAIR, HONEST, FRANK. That will definitely pay up.
In the modern world of hypocrisy, lie and incessant hunger for pleasures such rare platforms as Steemit are a harbour for good content, pure thoughts and philosophy. When I first came to Steemit I got totaly absorbed with posts in Trending; they were about some economic issues, about new people coming telling their stories of success, about roads untravelled and sights unseen. Some of the most popular bloggers like heiditravels are open to the world, they write what they think, they share their experience. I don't want to blame anyone for trying to earn - that is a great motivation for writing though it should not be the ONLY MOTIVATION.
Many think that if they write their own story frankly noone will be interested in it. Indeed. Frankness is a rare and valuable matter that is so cherished in the modern society. To tell the truth, I am sick from all those articles about whores and their panders, about people in need who can hardly make both ends meet and go on robbing and killing, about drug wars and celebrities' affairs. I can read stuff like that on any news webside and the torrents of this doomy and depressive content are endless.
Steemit can and should be an exception, a quite and nice harbour for all those who still think in this world of money-chasing zombies. Bring something new to the platform and don't be afraid to be straight-forward. We appreciate that.
Thanks a lot for reading this. Please, leave your commentaries and share your thoughts about the quality of Steemit content. The topic is absolutely open for discussion.
Yours,
Anastasia