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RE: Cryptogee Investigates: Who Is The Real @berniesanders?
Dear @cryptogee
And I just got mass-downvotes from him and his fellows ... sad day :(
Dear @cryptogee
And I just got mass-downvotes from him and his fellows ... sad day :(
I know he doesn't really need a reason, but do you know why?
Cg
I really wish to know @cryptogee
ps. I've noticed that you're powering down. Are you perhaps discouraged with recent HF21 ? I've noticed that some users are powering down and planning to quit steemit. Just wondering if you're going to stick around.
Yours
Piotr
It is not just HF21 that discourages me, I have lost faith in Steem a while back and HF21/22 is just another thing that makes me think that this place is not worth my time anymore.
As far as the powerdown is concerned, I feel that I might as well turn the little Steem I've got into Bitcoin because that is a safer store of value. I have been really faithful to this place and I get very little support in return.
People say to me oh but you can't confuse Steem and Steemit, which to me is like saying you can't confuse the iphone with Apple. Everything Steemit does effects Steem, and unfortunately most of the stuff they do effects it in a negative way.
The two main things I think have destroyed Steemit are firstly a complete lack of any kind of marketing. You can have the greatest product in the world, but if you don't tell anyone about it, then you will not sell very much.
Then there are the bidbots, they make sure that even with a low price there are a high amount of votes going to a low amount of low quality posts, this does two things. It stops the natural order whereby less people posting increases the share to individual posters, which is what happened in the days before these things.
Next they hamper content getting onto trending by the natural laws of popularity...
I think HF21/22 is simply designed to help the whales make more money. They talk about "investors" as if voters are the only part of the equation. I have seen various posts by people in and around Steemit inc which completely discount the effort it takes to post a well thought out article.
They talk as if voting is the be all and end all, which of course for them it is. As long as there is something to vote on, they are happy.
Lastly I think to myself, why should I be a bag holder, allowing these people to get rich while I slowly go poor (in Steem)?
I will still come here and probably post now and again, however I can't see myself putting much effort into Steemit anymore as it seems that effort goes to enriching greedy whales and bot owners.
This is one huge circle jerk that I no longer want to be a part of.
Cg
I wish you could see things in a slightly different way. We need people like you here. You are well respected and have a lot of influence.
It would be a shame for that to be taken from us.
Thank you f or your kind words.
I won't ever completely leave Steemit, it's just that I have lost enthusiasm so won't be putting as much energy into it as before, or be as loud an advocate.
For example, the other day an offline friend asked me about Steemit. I tried to explain about the system, and then the subject came onto the bidbots.
After he heard my explanation he said to me; 'that sounds like a pyramid scheme..'
I simply didn't have the energy to argue with him, and sort of agreed as well.
Cg
I just realized that I never actually thanked you for this amazing comment @cryptogee