I've been around for a year now and until recently I haven't seen this much begging and whining and comment hijacking as I see now. My buddy who uses Steemit.chat to advertise his posts told me he's giving that up because of the insane amount of private messages he gets asking him for vote2vote or follow2follow. That's fucking sad if you ask me.

This is a photo of a person using a traditional begging technique.

Is this what Steemit has come to? A community of beggars and schemers?

For Steemit to keep growing it needs quality content. It's not a get-rich-quick scheme. Go call one of those 'mystery shopper' ads if you're into that.

Here how you, Joe Noob, can be a good member:

Upvote content you actually like and read
Stop asking new members to follow you
Stop linking your boring shit from other people's thread
Stop begging for upvotes like my cat begs for table scraps
Post your own content that you actually created with your own brain cells and hands
Stop messaging people on chat asking for f2f v2v
Stop expecting instant rewards
Stop begging for resteems
Stop tagging every retarded post as #steemit
Learn from successful posters

10 is the most important point

Those successful posters go out there every single day and think of new ideas, make videos, take pictures, think about what it is you will find the most entertaining, etc. They edit their posts, make their pics look amazing, work on their videos. Look at Hive account@papa-pepper Hive account@jeffberwick Hive account@sweetsssj Hive account@runridefly Hive account@gringalicious and a bunch of others. Even if you dislike them or disagree with them. Editing videos, staging pictures, making coherent posts and all that, shit takes a while. It's not a "I'll follow you if you follow me" game.