Those are meant for posts related strictly to the platform itself. But you can keep them if you prefer it this way - your post is about discovering Steem after all.

Consider adding the tag #introduceyourself (and remove #steemit and #steem) - it might help you get a higher payout. It's a nice post, it deserves to be noticed.

Actually I think the Dilbert post gave you (and us) much more than you could have expected. This illumination that you've experienced and shared with us is worth much more than a couple of thousands USD

@kimmar - you're right: calling something BS is indeed a clear way to express your respect.

David Seaman is a scary monster.

I see you are a HF supporter. That's fine. But still it does not explain why you disrespect people who have a different opinion and want to stay with the unforked version of the chain. Let them do it.

A minority ( guess who... ) that has opposed the hard fork to still maintain it. Who?

Ethereum is the recently hard-forked chain endorsed by the Ethereum Foundation. Ethereum Classic is the chain which rejected the hard-fork.

But the minority is free to do whatever it wants, isn't it? Or do you believe that keeping the old chain alive should be criminalized?

Please elaborate. Why is this BS?

Completely disagree. What kind of BS are you talking about? If there are people who want ETC to exist why not let them have it? The hard-fork was supposed to be a voluntarily choice by the Ethereum community

On Poloniex ETC has a buying support of 2k BTC (whereas ETH has 8k and Steem has 10 times less) so I think ETC is gonna stay with us for some time. Its price might get crashed but it looks to me that many

Unlike bitcoin STEEM is not designed to be a long term store of value but rather a continuous monetary reward system for human ingenuity. Plain STEEM is no good as a long-term investment but STEEM POWER

We should be comparing market caps, not prices per unit. Steem spends 10% of its market cap per year to reward posting and curation (plus other costs) which is comparable to what Bitcoin spends on mining.

It's all true but the important thing is that the economic mechanism has been proved: an inflationary currency can survive and can even appreciate in value. If Bitcoin can survive, so can Steem. It does

That's a good sign that old stuff is being rediscovered. Thank you for letting me know.

Please note that Bitcoin needs 1M USD of fresh capital per day in order to survive - that's the current daily payout for miners. And Bitcoin has survived for over 8 years. Why can't those "experts"

Eliosoff reiterated Gao's point that steem might be a Ponzi scheme, predicting that the digital currency "will grow and grow until there are no fresh users to suck in and then quickly collapse,"

Fortunately, it's not the number of accounts that matters but the amount of Steem Power they have.

What is the purpose of listing tag names below an article? Like you did for your post: #steem #steemit #steem-help #tags