Do you like what you are getting? If so, keep doing what you are doing.
Do you dislike what you are getting? Do something different.
You control your experience, if you don't like it.. Look in the mirror and then change it.
We are not just growing a blogging site we are growing an economy.
Change your own expectations: In a decentralised, stake based system, stake matters. If you want more influence build your stake. If you hate that, I am confused by why you are here. The entire economy is based on stake.
There is an opportunity to earn here, not a right. Others have an opportunity to grow their stake, invest, etc. You don't get to tell others how to handle their investment. If you see abuse, flag it, join a flagging group, delegate some Steem power, buy a vote, but please, for crying out loud, stop crying! I'm not saying everything is perfect, but what you focus on grows. Make your case, take an action, and then get back to doing what you do.
Take control of your own SteemIt experience and quit yelling at everyone else to fix it. It's messy - deal with it.
Frankly I am stunned that so many of you are upset that minnows and dolphins finally have a chance at the reward pool via bots. In my opinion distribution is our biggest problem. Not enough people have influence. We need more people with more stake using the site, curating, reading and engaging.
There are not that many terrible posts getting to the trending page and most of you aren't flagging them. I don't think it is perfect by any means, but I think you are getting really ridiculous over how bad you think it is. I don't care that you hate memes, or photos or whatever, break out your flag and handle it. Decentralised means nobody is going to come and "fix it".
This is what the trending page would like like without the bots according to TrufflePig.
I don't think it is better.
Supply and Demand
- People with money who want to pay you for what you write are in high demand and there aren't many of them.
- There are tons of people here who create reasonable content, the supply is high.
Some of you are thinking ... "My content is GREAT." Really? Where is the demand for it then?
There is demand for people with programming skills, there is demand for people who have enough stake to upvote creators. That is why there is a market for so many bots. Many of those bot owners are not whales and they have found a way to earn and when they sell their votes it puts Steem in more hands, working on our distribution problem, slowly but surely. We have a very low number of people with a lot of stake. For instance my account is 877 ranked by "Own SteemPower". Those who hold large amounts of stake and leave it in SteemPower are creating the value. If they all sell... Gosh you may get to the top of the trending page, but what will it be worth?
There is hope!
When there are more projects that need end users the tide will change and the demand will go back to content creators.
The Steem economy isn't broken it is a work in progress.
What unique content are you bringing? Are you paying attention to the tides and figuring out how you can increase your value? Are you improving your skills? Networking? Buying in or at least Holding? Relentlessly grinding? Commenting? Building Tools? If you are just posting your work and waiting to be discovered, you better hope your work is incredible.
There are a lot of people who dream of writing/creating for a living. Many of them are attracted to this space. The competition is strong, the tools are imperfect. What are you doing to stand out?
This is more than a blogging page, it is an economy in development. The front-ends are coming, the first communities have already developed in Discord and on Steemit.chat they are just waiting for their homes on the blockchain.
If you don't like the experience you are having, change it!
