Have you ever thought about your behaviour on Steemit? The system is free, so you have to put up your own rules.

Have you put up your own rules and follow them?

You don't use voting bots or don't ever try to get the attention of whales? You spend most of the time here searching for content, that's valuable for you? You see every content a friend or family member shares in an objective way? You don't upvote yourself? You don't vote comments, since they are just comments? You don't vote just because of your feelings for somebody, you are always critic and aware of the relations to the whole community?

That would be the perfect behaviour on Steemit. You follow all of these points?

Congratulations, you are perfect!

You behave like an android who's intentions are made to be fair and to figure out what content is the most valuable.

But we are no androids.

We are human

In some way I see the necessarity of being an android, when I want equality and a world of peace and understanding. As an android I could just calculate the best behaviour for me. Not regarding my irrational feelings.

But especially tolerance and respect to me are more than a calculation. Androids would never have these warm feelings I have for these terms.

So tell me, Steemit... how do we want to be? Too moral? Is this open and decentralized system about not trusting anybody and wanting to have proof? Do we have to control our actings until we become androids? Do we just want to be free and we need to be open, so nobody distrusts us? No rules and not minding our own behaviour in relation to the community? So we have to accept anything? And it's okay to ignore our influence? Power and influence brings responsibility. You disagree?

We want you up there on top to be androids who are acting perfectly.
I am sorry to say: That's the price you pay for earning the most money. We want to see your value for the community. Since the content has to be the most valuable thing, we will be very critical about the things you share. Many people will take a closer look on your actings and intentions.

Give up your freedom and you will have money and power! While most of us are running for money and power, because we believe, we can only be free, when we have both. That's the deal.

And what we all forget in these discussions about fairness is...
just being human and trying to understand the opposite position to find a middle way everyone profits from with not spending too much effort.

Without calling us capitalists, communists, nazis...

I will never understand, why we just can't call us humans?


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