An open letter to the Steem Community about "Market Price Updates" (Specially to the Whales)

Dear Steemit Community,

Today i checked on steemd and i saw that i joined Steem 86 days ago. Almost 3 months.

And in these 3 months, i learned a lot about the platform itself and the Community. Besides some rotten apples here and there, this is a great community to be part of, and honestly, Steemit gave me back my dormant desire to write.

For that, i am very thankful for the whole community, and some old players around here that are very welcoming to new users.

But i noticed a trend here. And it is an ugly trend, that, in my personal view, only flood the plaftorm with useless posts that don't add any value to it.

This trend is called "Market Price Updates". You may also call it "Market Snapshot" or any variations of it.

In these kind of posts (and believe me, there is a huge amount of this), the user usually take the price of one or more cryptocoins and write what the price was at the time. With some degree of variations between each Author.

And i have a seriously big question, specially to the big whales around here that do this:

Seriously? Do you really think that copy pasting the price of a coin from one of the Thousands websites that show the price, wich are easily acessible by anyone, will add any real value to Steemit?

Don't get me wrong, i like a lot of these authors and their posts, but that is something that you should really rethink.

How can a post with some small quickly copied lines of the coins prices are, or how was the variation price add any value here?

What made me question this was a daily post that Hive account@aggroed started to write a some days ago. While somewhat useful to have a graphical representation os STEEM/SBD pair, why not put this on a website to be acessed by everyone? Do you really need to make a post everyday saying "The 200 moving average today is 0,92".

Hive account@aggroed is one of the Steemians that i respect, and he did created the Hive account@minnowsupport, wich is a big help for newcomers, but come on Hive account@aggroed, you don't even properly explain to your audience what is the meaning of the lines drawn on the picture...

And he is not alone.

Hive account@dragosrua do a daily market snapshot, where he take a snapshot of the steemmarketcap.com front page, and some candle graphs.

Hive account@penguinpablo write a cryptocurrency market overview with pictures of how much the was the price variation on 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days. At least he add a lot of other actually useful information there, like latest news.

And there is a lot more people doing this around Steemit...

I really like the users i mentioned above, and a lot of others that do the same thing and didn't mentioned. But seriously, this need to stop.

Why? BECAUSE THESE ARE FUCKING INFORMATION EASILY AVAIABLE IN A FUCKTON OF WEBSITES AROUND THE WEB!

As a side effect of this behavior from whales, that get a really good value on these kinds of posts, is that there is a HUGE amount of crappy posts from smaller users doing the same crappy, mimicking the whales posts and filling steem everyday with more and more crap.

And for you, that upvote these posts, and write on the comments "Thank you for this amazing information", "ohhhh you are so smart", "that is so wonderful", and other generic comments in the hope of grabing a whale vote, please, have some love for yourself...

Just go to one of these sites below, and you will get even better daily information about whatever coin you want:

https://coinmarketcap.com/,
https://www.tradingview.com/,
https://coin360.io/,
https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/list/USD/1,
https://bitscreener.com/,
https://www.barchart.com/crypto,
https://finance.yahoo.com/cryptocurrencies/heatmap/,
https://coinmarketinfo.com/
https://www.worldcoinindex.com/
https://coinpress.io/cointable/

Seriously... There is an amazing amount of good posts around here on Steemit, even ones that talk about the markets, but just don't leave a vote on those lazy "market price update".

Or do whatever you want. It's you account anyway.