I've been around Steemit for a relatively long while, check my account.
I've never been as successful as @Haejin, however you want to define "successful".
I have had a lot of fun, felt a lot of discontent, and even jealousy.
For all the valid reasons people have for calling @Haejin out, I have to say, this wealth of posts targeting him feels a lot like High School.
For every legitimate criticism I see 10x as many sour grapes.
Haejin is GOOD for steemit, his most adamant opponents and biggest haters need to see that.
He is shining a spotlight on a lot of areas of improvement. He's also showing exploits and inequalities. He's showing something else... a market.
Whether he has 10,000 subscribers or 5,000, or 500, it's still a large amount for a relatively small niche. Get your heads out of the now and imagine a day when steemit.com has as much traffic and user accounts as Reddit.
We desperately need people like @Haejin to not only be the kind of cult of personality that draws in users but even more importantly to illustrate flaws in the platform.
I don't know this guy, and other than the flood of posts about him on "trending" I didn't notice him before today. After investigating this silly drama I just have to shake my head.
Please, everyone, objectively look at my words. Objectively look at the platform. Take a step back and look at the big picture. Let's make steemit the best it can be so when STEEM is $800 or $8,000 or $80,000 we have a solid, mature base for it.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Feel free to comment, critique or criticize. I'll try to answer all replies.
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