TTR - The Failure Of Greed

Take some time to read both of these - the original post that motivated me to write this:

https://steemit.com/steem/@snowflake/enter-a-whale-s-mind

And the passionate response here:

https://steemit.com/whales/@stellabelle/money-cannot-replace-integrity-why-i-still-vote-according-to-my-inner-compass-instead-of-max-roi

I haven't been here long, only 135 days. That's 36% of a year. In that little-over-a-third-of-a-year I've had run-ins with bot comments, self-voting, botted-vote-gangs and low-effort copy-pasters like this one.

Are there people here that create original content on Steemit? Absolutely. I feel I can count Hive account@gric, Hive account@aci7, and Hive account@eveuncovered as Steemit friends and fellow creators, among others that I follow. They are industrious and clever, inspiring me to write things and post comments.

But that isn't the whole picture. Steemit has a problem that I'm not sure it can solve.

By creating a link to power using piles of tokens, Steemit aligns incentives towards profit, not originality. If a whale likes a post but gets more return from a vote-bot - they're going to use the vote-bot, leaving deserving posts languishing in the dust.

This is a major flaw.

How does it get fixed? I'm not sure.

There are plenty of suggestions, but all the talking in the world doesn't mean a hill of beans if the big guys don't agree and push through some changes.

So, I'm going to change my posting interval - instead of original stuff every day with no reposting, I'm going to post once a week and monitor for improvements.

I'll still support people and comment on posts worth commenting on, upvoting where its appropriate.

But longer term I see Steemit becoming a forgotten experiment if there isn't progress made to curb the exploitation of the system. So what, just one creator dropping off, right?

An avalanche starts with one stone.

See you next week.