Ok guys and girls,
Unfortunately here's another one of those posts... I'm going against your confirmation bias. Ignore or actually provide counter arguments.... But if you downvote you'll just be proving my point!
So without further ado...
So first up... the happy clappy, ass licking nature of interaction on the site - it's like some weird cult where all the high ranking get put on some crazy pedestal. Some are waiting to be thrown a bone by the big swinging dicks... However, what's more worrying, is the censorship of "downvoting" from high authority members. One downvote can literally destroy your chance of success on steemit... The result? Tyrannical cringe worthy interaction.
Most posts are not even read!! People are here to "work", not to "consume"... they are upvoting just to get in on the curation award action. Go to posts that are gaining traction and you'll see that the view count is more often than not lower than the upvote count or at the very least it's some crazy ratio of upvoting to views which is unheard of on any other media platform....ever.
And last but of course not least, there's the fact that steemit is infact a ponzi scheme... Before you start shouting at me that it isn't, answer this quesiton... WHO IS BUYING STEEM AND WHAT FOR??? Where is the demand coming from?? Take the alt coin speculators out of it and what are you left with? People buying Steem cos they realise they need to gain more visibility by buying steem power to upvote their own content or get more curation rewards... So to really play in this game you need to "buy in"... Who benefits? The people who already bought in! Sounds pretty dodgy to me
Note - this also includes using steem lotteries such as randowhale, booster etc
(This is a slightly modified version of a previous post of mine. I am reposting it since the original got downvoted by an angry whale with no explanation and became practically invisible. These topics are important to discuss, so please let's have a civilised discussion here)