I was a bit bored today on Steemit so I decided to take a trip over to the trending page to see if there was anything interesting over there. Let's face it, Steem is done, it's over, there's no hope in sight from what I can see. Requesting people to make meme's to inspire growth is pretty useless...where is our Waves of Change? Poorly written articles, copy and paste, sloppy lunch stories....
Let's take a look at the offerings...
The article starts out:
On the 4th of July while everyone was celebrating the nations independence apparently someone else was planning >an even bigger celebration.
This article should have started:
Sixteen hours ago I decided while everyone at Steem was asleep I decided I would plan an even bigger celebration after running away with $107.51 for this poorly written two paragraph article.
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Let's take a look at this little gem where someone made $70.86 giving people his (minuscule) unprofessional opinion on coins/investment strategy:
In it he writes:
There is also the fact that I do not have a clue which site will do well and what the price of the coins will be. Like literally >zero clue. I do not fully understand why steem is so low.
Well obviously he does has a clue when it comes to knowing what sites will let him scam them out of $70.86. Here was my response to him:
I do not fully understand why steem is so low.
Like literally zero clue
Here I will give you one: When people get paid $70.77 for a piece of crap article like this it's hard for investors to want to invest in bad product.
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Here's a post on the death of Ross Perot:
https://steemit.com/rossperot/@zer0hedge/ross-perot-dead-at-89-after-battle-with-cancer
My only question to them was:
.....considering one could find twice as much information for free on any news articles printed on the death of Mr Perot Steemians are paying you $182.98 why?
Enough said.
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There was this article where Steemians dished out $117.44 for this guy to literally copy and past from news sources the failings of Deutsche Bank.
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Really I didn't think anyone could beat this article after I read it...but believe it or not there was one worse than an article on someone who was served up a sloppy lunch....
https://steemit.com/food/@purepinay/how-s-lunch
Afterwards to which Steemians were served a bill of $82.42 for that tidbit of sloppy information.
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So what's the "I Robbed Steem Award" winner of the day?
https://steemit.com/steemengine/@steemleaves/buying-low-and-sellling-a-little-higher-lol
A post where the author doesn't know selling only has two L's and includes a laugh in your face right in the title. They got paid $60.49 to post:
The market has been going up and down. I enjoy it doing so everyday. Makes it so I can make a little steem everyday! Day trading is great when you have no transaction fees!
I am sure they are enjoying it everyday, that day may come to an end because of irresponsible behavior like this. You either want to save the platform or you don't. Someone has to take the reins and make the tough decisions. Limits have to be set. You cannot run a system that doles out money any differently then a bank, if some people can rob the bank everyday some day the bank will close.
After reading some of the comments left on these post it's only evident that the new down vote feature isn't going to work. I was the only one to question these people as to why they think their post deserved the kind of money it made. Everyone else up voted the post followed by a glowing comment, it's literally the most absurd thing I've seen for a social media platform. Allowing this pattern to continue discourages people, stifles growth and open debate yet the behavior continues despite the fact it's killing Steem. It's impossible to restructure any failing institution when you keep the bad behaviors intact, Steem is no different.