Been on steem for a week and I've realized it sucks...

I'm not really interested in earning "steem" or "steem dollars". I came from the bitshares community (the community that Dan Larimer, creator of steem, came from). Many of the "whales" here are bitshares investors or developers who started early here. I try to post useful content or bugs and errors I find, but it's covered up within seconds with garbage posts.

This place is a giant circle jerk. A race to upvote or comment on every post with a chick in it. Many of the comments I see are not relevant, or are just a GIF with a one word like "cool" or "Awesome!".

Right now I think there is massive amounts of manipulation, both in content curation and market cap. Steem was designed from the very begining to show a large, yet extremely illiquid, market cap. Add in some hot girls, and who can resist money and women. I don't think Dan realized that this place would be inundated with garbage...

As we see now the bubble in steem is popping. We'll see how many people are still hanging around here as the market cap keeps falling.