I want to opt out of all autovotes I am receiving.
The more I think about the inner workings of Steemit, the more annoyed I get. I'm starting to get tired of the pretentiousness of it all. In fact, I grew tired a long time ago.
If you feel my content is worth supporting, by all means, do so.
I'm just getting irked by the idea that most posts on Steemit are created because the author receives an X amount of autovotes from X amount of users, guaranteeing X amount of money every time.
The posts are just an excuse, a facade.
The exact same thing could be accomplished by simply voting which members receive which portion of the rewards every day. No need for posts. Nobody reads them anyway. The posts are simply a middleman used to get both author and curation rewards.
People don't read your posts; they either comment in hopes of upvotes or are not real people, to begin with, but bots designed for the same purpose.
The engagement is fake, the posts are fake, the users are fake, Steemit is so fake it's not even funny.
I don't need, nor want, fake support.
I hate the fact that I've actually found myself thinking whether or not to post something, considering each autovote I get. It's restrained me from posting something that could be deemed too controversial.
I don't want to owe anybody anything. I will post what I want. If you're with me, awesome. If not, I didn't need you anyway.
People manually supporting people and content that they like is how social media should work, right?
I would like for other people to follow my example, but I know none of you will. Because you lack the balls to do so. I don't.
The idea of Steemit presented to me way back when I joined: people post content and other people upvote and downvote based on how good they think the content is.
Exactly how close are we to this vision today? I'd say pretty damn far off.
The reality of Steemit goes something like this: people choose users to autovote, others join based on curation rewards, and then those people come up with excuses to post trash every day because it makes them X amount of money.
And it always gets worse with each price spike.
I remember when during the days of 7 cents there were more enjoyable posts to be found than today. The quality of the content is inversely proportional to price, I've found.
No one autovotes me on Facebook; no one autovotes me on message boards. People like and upvote because I posted something they considered funny, valuable, good, whatever the fuck.
I'm perfectly aware that this post will change nothing in the grand scheme of things, but it will at least prevent me from being a hypocrite, so do remove me from whatever autovoting service you're using.
If you still find my content worthy of your support manually, I appreciate it. But I don't want to be a fucking leech who gets it for free.
Like almost the entire trending page on any given day.
If you can live with yourself being a leech and a kiss ass, have at it. Go hog wild, man. If you're for sale that easily, enjoy. I will hereby choose having a damn backbone instead of a cock in my mouth.
But the reason this platform inevitably fails is not people like me being "TOXIC", it's something else, trust me. It's the bullshit that goes on in here every single day. It's that bullshit that makes intelligent people see Steemit for what it is: a pretentious shit hole.
Someone should notify Trump that he forgot one very important shit hole. But that's just because no one has ever heard of Steemit. And you know why that is? Because no one has any reason to change the status quo around here.
I will hereby martyr myself, but I'm also the guy who opted out of STEEM Guild votes back in the day. Yes, I'm autistic enough to turn down free money because of silly things like values and dignity and nonsense like that. What a stupid concept, right?
Hey, look at what happened to steemit.chat, one of the truly enjoyable things about Steemit. 
That's because witness votes are just as fake as the post upvotes. They're not based on anything real. So many witnesses do nothing yet continue to receive support, most likely until the end of time.
Nothing here is based on anything real. It's all brown nosing and plastic smiles.
And for the love of God, if I get one more "Thanks for sharing!" comment, I will flag the ever-loving hell out of it. Each and every single one. No, I will not upvote you, I will not follow you, I will not go to a picnic with you, I will not engage with you in any way.
Is the average intelligence score of the Steemit community truly so low that "Thanks for sharing!" is the only thing such a big portion of the userbase can possibly muster out of themselves and into their keyboards?
Don't expect this place to go mainstream anytime soon, guys.
I appreciate all genuine engagement and genuine friends I've made on Steemit. I appreciate all genuine support. But I simply want to refuse the free lunch. I believe using a social media site is more fun that way anyway.
If you're still with me, appreciated.
I think that's it for my rants for the day.
À bientôt.