I see so much good here on steemit and yet I see the corruptive influences that made most of us seek out a new way to connect. I don't know about you guys but I came to steemit out of pure disgust of the status quo on twitter, facebook, instagram and more.
Free speech and community is what makes this place special to me. I could care less about making a few sbd here and there. The fact that I see this platform contributing to developing nations peoples, giving them the money to go to school, pay rent, buy food, to some degree steemit has the potential to bring a level of wealth to places that poverty stricken.
A computer and a connection and you are in business. You post, comment, upvote and get to know your fellow travelers along the way. but I have heard grumblings in the steemosphere about people getting ostracized over what they are posting or commenting because some people do not agree with it. That is more of the same. instead of youtue or facebook banning you for a day or a week people are downvoting and killing someones rep over, disagreements in opinion and belief systems.
I believe we have all come here because, we wanted something different than what we have been getting. So how is having bots scour the web to destroy someone on here because they didn't cite a source or used some picture. I thought this is open source. No ruling elite, no corporation making stupid rules to control the dialogue. Was I wrong?
if you have nothing good to say, it is best to say nothing. So make your posts special.
also I would like to address another complaint I have been been hearing through posts and comments. People supporting only their special little circle and growing themselves, when they are already huge. Does this make sense?? If we are to make this thing mainstream and have the power tobecome big guys we need to support each other and I am talking about all of us. Whale and Witness votes are huge when you get one. Yah, sure you can buy some bigger ones, but this is becoming ridiculous. We are here for the long run and supporting each other is a key to that success of steem.
If the big guys don't get involved in helping the little guys including myself, I fear steem won't be worth nothing in the coming years. The big guys are already working on their own plans to incentive base their content. If we don't stand out in some paradigm changing fashion, everyone who bought steem, might as well of flushed it down the toilet.
look at the price now, at one point from what I heard it was 2$ per sbd and with my own eyes 1.50$/sbd. Now it is 12$ per sbd, We need to build on the new blood coming in to the platform.
I am not the arbiter of the platform by now stretch of the imagination. but I can see what seperates success from failure, and if the big dogs don't stop selling their votes and start giving them freely as the platform was designed, you will lose in the long run.
