Just because I don't care what you think, doesn't mean I don't care what you think...

I hear a lot of talk these days about people not liking other people's content and I am getting rather tired of it. For instance, this is my blog and I am responsible for what I post and how I choose to promote my post and how I engage with my commenters. I think It would be really strange to complain about someone's post and their choice to not promote it, but isn't this essentially the same thing? I don't think it's any of my business to decide for someone else what is considered "quality content" and what is not. Am I going to go through my life worrying about what other people would like me to post and how I choose to be seen? Will I start asking people what I should wear next? Or what I should buy at the store? I don't think so. Where do we draw the line?


I think it's rather simple to just ignore a blog. I think it's rather simple to not try and understand why somebody chooses to promote their post with bots or to try to network to increase upvotes, we are all in a different boats here on steemit and floating in the same sea so everyone makes choices that are best for themselves. The community is strong but at the same time everyone is looking out for themselves and in my opinion this will never change. It may be the one flaw in the platform that cannot be changed through a HF. People are people and when they are experiencing FUD they will instinctively re-think their tactic to better insulate themselves. Using bots, revoking delegations, un-following, and un-engaging all together. This should never be questioned in my opinion, every steemian has their own choice to maintain their blog in the way they see fit in my opinion.

It's unfortunate that people are people, this is just the way it is and it's never going to change. There are so many idealistic conversations going around that suggest this can be changed if we work together and I think in small doses this is true. Things will always come back to selfish ways when a person feels FUD if they are not careful. FUD is very contagious and it can spread like a virus and I have seen It happen over and over again and I don't like it at all. One can spend all their time talking people down from the rafters but one conversation after they will be back to FUD and back to selfish ways. It's human nature.


This is a work in progress. I never blogged before I came to steemit, all I did was post things that I thought were cool in my everyday activities on facebook for 12 years and I feel this is what everyone else did too. They did whatever they wanted until they got the reprimand. These guidelines are what made it so popular and it didn't seem to interfere with everyday like the steemit platform does and especially the discord(although this proved to be wrong). It's a huge transition moving to steemit from other social media sites and has a way of changing our everyday lives to the point where it's much more addicting than all the others combined. For me it's not a problem because I am not pinning all my hopes on the success of steemit although I am an investor and would like to see it moon, I don't rely on it. This is where all the judgement about "quality content" comes in and people reacting to what other people are doing as they feel it is impacting the platform in a negative way. In my opinion the only thing negative about the platform is the evil of mankind doing what it does best, trying it's hardest to control things that are not meant to be controlled through technology.