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Although the original problem I was having is solved, after reading for a while today, I'm convinced that since making money isn't my motivation here and that's all this site is for, I'm wasting time here posting up stuff that no one will ever see because my ideas are all about freeing people from civilization and dependence upon currency. The types of people that would be interested in my posts are tired of the world that concentrates power in the hands of a few and this site/crypto apparently has the exact opposite mission.
As usual, capitalism and greed has screwed up what could have been a beautiful platform for enabling collaboration between forward thinking inventors and activists that actually want to make the world a better place. I saw steemit and steem as a possible transitional step towards that goal but the primary motivation of the whales that are running things is pretty clear, get rich, cash out, and watch this turn into the next myspace. There's no way that the masses they are trying to attract have the intelligence to understand the platform and maximize it. They'll come in, post their vapid crap, bury all of the thoughtful and informative posts, and either cash out if they get rich, or leave when they don't. I really hope that someone creates something similar that has the intention of improving the mess those dependent upon civ have put our species in. If you're interested in the things that I post about, please come join my forum at https://muut.com/prototribal .}
A friend told me about steemit and even though I'm pretty burned out on planned obsolescence based consumer products, cartel/gov owned ISP's, the internet, and its people, the science seemed sound and networking freely is always good. I also suffered a multiple hard drive/flash drive wipe sometime in February '16 so I thought it would be a good idea to put my content up on the blockchain so it can never get lost again.
After fighting to post for a few days due to unknown issues, I was finally able to post smoothly and spent quite a bit of time putting up a few posts that I thought others would find interesting. Even though they involve DIY open source green tech and things to give more power to the people, the posts have been largely ignored while content from vapid idiots is all over the trending page.
At first, I thought, "No big deal. Once the site grows and relationships build, people will see my content and have a chance to vote on it." Sadly, this doesn't seem to be true. I got my first payout yesterday of $8 and tried to upvote a comment on one of the posts that I was paid out on and I got a popup saying that there was no more voting allowed on that comment because the thread had already been paid out.
If this is the case, in the future, when I find the real forward thinkers and not just the vapid chicks that want easy money and the rich nerds that want in their pants, my posts will stay buried forever. If I'm wrong, please correct me and I'll keep posting material. If I'm right and the only way to get noticed here is to post something the ignorant masses will eat up and hope to get noticed, I'm not wasting my time with this platform anymore.
It's not because I'm interested in money. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. I actually think that money is the primary tool for empowering psychopaths and the more anonymous the money is, the more they are empowered. The reason is that I don't want to waste time investing in a site that's going to turn to crap content and focus power in the hands of a very few early adopters.
If posts can be voted on forever, there's some chance of things evening out once communities and reputations build, making it possible to have at least one forward thinking social network. If they can't, I don't want to help anyone grow the next vapid, waste of bandwidth, popularity contest site.
Oh, almost forgot the tits!
