Let me start this post with two short fictional stories about two totally different people, as examples of what I want to say.
STORY 1
In some of the biggest cities in the world, there was a successful businessman, the boss, the director and god-like figure to his employers. He was one of the richest people in his country. He was harsh to his opponents and even more harsh to his employees. He loved high life he lived, he had few friends but they were just acting as friends. He was mocking them, making fun of them, he was rude and nobody could confront him. He was a real pain in the ass, especially for a new employee, a coffee boy. He was constantly humiliating that young man because he came from the foreign county, spoke strangely and he was too obedient.
One day, the big boss smelled the business opportunity on Steemit. So he joined to the social network and started blogging. His posts were not friendly, he acted hostile to those who commented on his posts and it was very hard for him to get some real followers. Although he invested a lot in Steem Power, the most of the rewards that he got, he got from himself.
He wasn't good as follower neither. He would humiliate people who posted funny stuff, photos and stories calling them "weak and unstable brains".
But Steemit wasn't what he expected. He got used that everybody shows him respect and fear. In outside world, the most people he met had to "bend their knees" in front of them. But on Steemit he felt that he was equal to others. That wasn't familiar ground to him, other Steemers noticed that he is a human trash so he couldn't make any significant success, except what he gave to himself by self upvoting.
STORY 2
This is a story about a young man that came from a foreign, poor country to find a job. He graduated on university, but he knew that in this country, he have to start from the beginning. So he found a job below his education and abilities in some big company. He had to bring the coffee to his strict boss every day and that cruel and evil boss was humiliating and torturing him whenever he had a chance, especially because of poor origins of his new employee and his clumsy English.
But a young mad was eager to work, to learn and he didn't have any choice but to be obedient to that human trash of his boss. He suffered all with a smile on his face and everybody around loved him because of the positive energy that he was spreading.
His salary was too low to pay his rent and bills, so he joined Steemit to make some extra profit. In his first post, he showed his great personality, positive energy and friendly manners. That behavior was natural to him and it brought him many friendly and supporting followers. He was clever and intelligent, his English got better and some whales on Steemit noticed him and they started to like what he does. Suddenly, he started getting big rewards and he realized that he can make it there. He made a decent sum of Steem and started crypto trading. It took some time for him to catch up with all, but his new friends from Steemit gave him a good advice and support. Soon, he made enough money to start his own little business so he resigned his job, but still showing respect and decency to his cruel former employer.
MY POINT
Being hostile won't get you anywhere on Steemit. You can't judge people by their interests, opinions and especially nationalities. When I came on Steemit, there was one or two other Steemers from my county. All the rest were from different parts of the world and each of us started to meet other cultures on ways of life. If you caught the real point here, you know that it is not important who posted something. What is important is the posted content. A year and half ago, there were not so many users here, so we developed this friendly community only from our own natural conversation and by respecting other users. We all knew that if one goes up, the others will follow. And we sent the speech of hate back to Facebook where it belongs.
Today I see that things had changed. We have wars, jealousy and fights here. With larger number of users, some real human trash is camping here, trying to disturb our peace. Some early adopters lost their nerves by watching how low-quality posts get large rewards and the real quality gets only few cents. Well, we are all a little bit guilty for that by not reading all posts that we upvote and upvoting the same people every day. We all have our so called clans and people we stick with on Steemit, but let's be open for others and judge the content instead of it's author.
It is very messy here now, but I still feel that friendly environment that we created. I just hope that it will not vanish with time and upcoming crowds.
