Our whale problem
Towel balance & the pool chair problem, Rens van der Vorst at TEDxBreda, Netherlands
Steemit seems broken. Maybe it's the gigantic inflow of new posts, improperly managed, or maybe it's the entire ecosystem below dying while the earliest-adopter whales floating up top, but something's got to give. This constant wallowing for likes is a big smear on an otherwise robust framework. I wish there were more fora so our almost 100,000 users could start dividing more organically. It just doesn't make sense to have a single front page of maybe 10-20 articles (many of which stay on for days at a time) while thousands of new users are joining daily, vying to be heard. I'm not hungry for a piece of the financial pie either, that's not what brought me here. I'm just sad that this great project has turned into a capitalistic venture instead of being primarily an arena of information exchange. Everyone is yelling, "Look at me, look at me!", but the follow-up comments peter down into self-congratulatory ego boosts exchanged like so many tennis volleys.
Come on, Steem. Let's get on the ball. Let's reshuffle the towels a bit so we can all have a whale of a time.