This is a good take away. However, there is one thing that trumps all of your points: story. Story is King. It is story which gives value to every one of the points you made. What good is fresh content

oh man, you are definitely right about the confusion thing, there are enough hoops to get through as it is just to understand the site conceptually. And I do like the alternative of simply removing the

I am not saying that posting garbage to the blockchain instantly makes it a classic, and I am not saying steemit will find the next Shakespeare (or even the next Classic (capital "C") content).

Excellent point. Indeed, "time and chance overtake us all." However, I find it hard to reconcile the fatality of your argument with the argument itself. Why make the argument if it ends up being

Thanks! I do mean "commiserate" as in it sympathizes with the authors for those two points. Perhaps it was a bad pun... :-P

Thanks for the response! Yes, steemit is definitely not a timeless platform, and when taken in comparison to truly timeless works like Shakespeare, i don't think it's meant to be. However, it certainly

Absolutely. Yeah, this is def not pressing by any means. Mainly just something to think about in terms of a longer term perspective.

You would probably enjoy the steemit blog, @moefbatpi, it's all about situations and instances similar to this. Your quote: They reproduce the very behavior that they honestly think they rebel against.

This one's on the house:

Great take. I always wondered about the minimum payment option paid through till 10 years. I was under the impression that federal loans are forgiven at that point, and always wanted to dive into it deeper,

Reminds me of one of my all time favorites: (also, you are completely right )

For the many people who are having difficulty loging in/signing up, I had the same issue, and was eventually able to do it successfully. Download client from app store, View/Current Server - Reload, then

I would have to do more research on the finer points to give you a better response, but I will say this: getting jobs back to America may be contingent on automation, but it is first contingent on a

"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." - Edward

Been 8+ hours now without an email sent. Tried multiple emails to create an account, all were "already registered" (which is odd, cus they weren't registered by me!). Tried to have passwords

Same issue.

Very well worded and to the point. Consider yourself followed.

Some salient points about this entire debate

Honestly, I think it has to do with scale. 400 upvotes is about average for his other instagram content, but I am sure $7000 for 1 non-sponsored post is not. More votes or not, i would be baffled if that

Dang. Can you imagine if we make all the celebrities who post on Steemit instant Dolphins? (or whatever it is) sh*t would go crazy....