I was reading an excellent post from about his views on Steemit and I decided to add my 2 bits to the mess.
I don't think there are Discount Buyers or Good Clients on Steemit.
Just Doozers & Fraggles.
Let me explain.
When I moved to the UK with my family one of the popular Kiddes TV shows was called Fraggle Rock.
A Jim Henson Special. Muppets to give them their correct name.
My kids watched it as I ran around the house doing what Dad's do in the morning.
When you're trying to get 2 Boyzz out the door to school.
They explained to me the show was about the Doozers who build stuff all the time.
And the Fraggles who just spent their time destroying it.
It strikes me now, after all these years, we have not moved very much on from there.
The Doozers are us.
The Grunts at the bottom of the pile, writing posts for pennies most of the time.
Trying to build or even be part of some sort of mature sensible community.
Why?
Its what we do.
I did join Steemit to earn some cash from my stories.
It is called an incentive in most places.
And it worked.
But I realized very early on it was never going to happen in a flash.
Maybe it did, in the early Gold Rush Steemit days.
But them days are long gone and what we have left is a half built mining town with a lot of tumbleweeds.
Due to the Fraggles (as I will now call them) bailing out of the Steem Dream.
I have no illusions about Steemit.
I don't own this Platform.
None of the Doozers do, or ever will.
No more than the Fanatic Fans own Chelsea Football Club or New England Patriots.
Steem Inc is a company that can be replicated by anybody else with the balls to do it.
Steem Inc along with Steemit and any other spin off Steem Matchmaking Site that is in development, can also be sold, by its owners, at anytime.
To anybody with a big enough bag of Bitcoins.
So the only reason to hang in here is the same reason people stay on FaceB or go to the football games.
Its just nice to be connected to a growing community.
We have a lot of clever people (Doozers) posting a ton of clever stuff (Framework).
But having to put up with a Gang of unruly Fraggles smashing the framework to pieces.
I have watched and read the Bitchiness and some very Schoolyard behavior of the self appointed Fraggle Taliban.
I'm sure they'll all spin a good argument.
As there is some very Las Vegas style skimming off the top going on. We are not totally dumb.
But there comes a point when we the Doozers have to say enough is enough.
If this pointless Willy Waving contest continues, the Doozers will just pack up and move on.
Here Endth The Lesson.