Excuse me and forgive me, maybe I am a party breaker but this is how I see Steemit these days:

And yes, every one of them is making more than a thousand SBDs a day from the pool. Excellent money for the main players. ;)

It is all about Power (Steem Power) and Money (Steem Power) not about the quality of the content. Rank means virtually nothing. And rank should be the sign of the quality. Bots, on the other hand, are the only way starters can make their content visible. Pay to win.

You can be level 0 (bad content) or level 65 if you have 15 Steem on account your voice will be valuable the same, under 1 cent of empowerment. That is how much quality is important here.

Decentralization? North Korea is more decentralized. Few people control everything. Political power in the real world = steem power here.

What is the result? Slave mentality.

Minnows are forced to beg higher ranked member for the upvote in order to succeed.

95% of posts are "nice post" "you are the best" or similar pathetic garbage because people are forced into submission. I am here almost a month and have seen a few posts which have grown into a quality debate. In-depth conversation is almost non-existent.

So let's be honest, this project is not about decentralization or "empowering people", it is about making money with bots.

You guys have made an interesting project, but it can very easily slide into a project that looks more like hell than Facebook itself.

I know, someone will reply with "moron/looser, go back to Facebook" but I still believe that for rational people critic is far more valuable than shallow praise.

For now, this is more Greedit than Steemit, but you have the power to change that before it becomes too late and we get one more Facebook and few more Zuckerbergs.