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RE: Hello #spanish community! We are #polish community. We would like to know more about you!
Well, I´m sure some users will agree with me, but I doubt someone shows it. I´m tired of this and I think this is a chance to speak my mind and maybe it could be a way to change our community´s reality.
But before I begin let me remind you something that´s in the post. Most of the spanish language users are Venezuelan. Venezuela as you may know is a nightmare right now, you just can´t imagine what´s happening here. So, you have to take that in mind as you read what I have to say.
Venezuelan community is really poor. A lot of people use Steemit as a way to make money so they can eat. This is real and it is not an exaggeration. We are poor people trying hard to get some money to buy a piece of meat. Some people do it in a honest way, giving their best and others just can´t compite with quality so they became beggars.
So, sit tide and enjoy as the world burns! (I pretent to burn it myself)
How would you describe the #spanish community in a few sentences?
-There is a lot of great authors trying to success in the spanish community, higly educated people, scientist, published writers, universitary profesors and so on, but most of all is common people having a bad time.
Which #spanish users are most recognized on Steem?
-I won´t mention anyone, I think there is a lot of great users, most of them underground. Plankton like me, people trying to bring great content and work hard to became better with every post. Prepare yourself, you will read a lot of mentions to curation groups and dolphins, but that´s because they have the power, so people just praise them to get an upvote (yeah, sounds cruel but remember, a good upvote could be the difference between white rice and a decent meal).
What Steem projects have been created by people from your community?
-A LOT. But mostly have no future, most of the time a "leader" creates one and some users follow him, hoping to get some upvotes and the cicle jerk begings. Content doesn´t really matter, just who is the best praising the "leader" and his court.
What witnesses do you have?
-None. They just try to get pay for producing blocks and use the community to get there. They tell beatyful lies, upvote some people to gain they support, when they think they have it, forget them even if they are really good, and proceed to look for another user to upvote them and collect more support and so on. So the spanish community don´t have witness, they just have people that became o want to be witness in order to get SP by producing blocks and circle jerk with they "inner" circle.
Does the #spanish community stick together or is it divided into many groups?
-In my opinion, there is 3 groups and you can notice it in the coments of this post. First one: the leaders and they inner circle, they are the ones who controls the sp (check the upvotes made by planton in their coments). The sheeps, people who want´s to became a part of the circle jerk or get an upvote, so they play by the rules of the powerful (they will comment and upvote leaders and their court) and finally, the rebels or indifferents; people that stay away and are almost pariahs because they don´t play the game or are just sick of this and want´s to change it. They don´t get high votes (some of the best authors are here) as a way to censor and keep them small, the intention it to force them to leave, keep silence or praise the leaders (remember we are talking that some venezuelans eats with the few dollars we can get here).
What initiatives / principles / conventions have you developed?
-Get to your knees if you want to suceed, is the only convention that seems to work around here.
What are the biggest problems of the #spanish community?
-Too much poor users depending of the good will of some not so decent people. This is the real problem, obviously it´s imposible to reward all the users and I know that. But there is too much power in too few hands that use it to gain more and more power.
Extra questions:
a. What is the difference between #spanish, #cervantes and #castellano?
-Spanish was the first tag used in steemit by spanish talking people, so still is the most popular one. Cervantes is the tag imposed by cervantes witness, so if you want to get their upvotes you use it. And castellano is another tag for the same language promoted by witness castellano. But there is also some controversy about this outside steemit, the language that you know as spanish origins in the Reign of Castilla, Spain; so Castellano is the original name for the language and maybe the best suited since in Spain there is a lot of other language also speaked by spanish people like catalan, gallego, vasco and so on.
So, I´m sorry for this "almost a bible" coment, thanks for reading and i hope you find interesting.
If you want to know more, maybe you could read this post I made a week ago:
https://steemit.com/blog/@jcalero/thereasonwhyaminnowlosthope-mrhrno260r
But before I begin let me remind you something that´s in the post. Most of the spanish language users are Venezuelan. Venezuela as you may know is a nightmare right now, you just can´t imagine what´s happening here. So, you have to take that in mind as you read what I have to say.
Venezuelan community is really poor. A lot of people use Steemit as a way to make money so they can eat. This is real and it is not an exaggeration. We are poor people trying hard to get some money to buy a piece of meat. Some people do it in a honest way, giving their best and others just can´t compite with quality so they became beggars.
So, sit tide and enjoy as the world burns! (I pretent to burn it myself)
How would you describe the #spanish community in a few sentences?
-There is a lot of great authors trying to success in the spanish community, higly educated people, scientist, published writers, universitary profesors and so on, but most of all is common people having a bad time.
Which #spanish users are most recognized on Steem?
-I won´t mention anyone, I think there is a lot of great users, most of them underground. Plankton like me, people trying to bring great content and work hard to became better with every post. Prepare yourself, you will read a lot of mentions to curation groups and dolphins, but that´s because they have the power, so people just praise them to get an upvote (yeah, sounds cruel but remember, a good upvote could be the difference between white rice and a decent meal).
What Steem projects have been created by people from your community?
-A LOT. But mostly have no future, most of the time a "leader" creates one and some users follow him, hoping to get some upvotes and the cicle jerk begings. Content doesn´t really matter, just who is the best praising the "leader" and his court.
What witnesses do you have?
-None. They just try to get pay for producing blocks and use the community to get there. They tell beatyful lies, upvote some people to gain they support, when they think they have it, forget them even if they are really good, and proceed to look for another user to upvote them and collect more support and so on. So the spanish community don´t have witness, they just have people that became o want to be witness in order to get SP by producing blocks and circle jerk with they "inner" circle.
Does the #spanish community stick together or is it divided into many groups?
-In my opinion, there is 3 groups and you can notice it in the coments of this post. First one: the leaders and they inner circle, they are the ones who controls the sp (check the upvotes made by planton in their coments). The sheeps, people who want´s to became a part of the circle jerk or get an upvote, so they play by the rules of the powerful (they will comment and upvote leaders and their court) and finally, the rebels or indifferents; people that stay away and are almost pariahs because they don´t play the game or are just sick of this and want´s to change it. They don´t get high votes (some of the best authors are here) as a way to censor and keep them small, the intention it to force them to leave, keep silence or praise the leaders (remember we are talking that some venezuelans eats with the few dollars we can get here).
What initiatives / principles / conventions have you developed?
-Get to your knees if you want to suceed, is the only convention that seems to work around here.
What are the biggest problems of the #spanish community?
-Too much poor users depending of the good will of some not so decent people. This is the real problem, obviously it´s imposible to reward all the users and I know that. But there is too much power in too few hands that use it to gain more and more power.
Extra questions:
a. What is the difference between #spanish, #cervantes and #castellano?
-Spanish was the first tag used in steemit by spanish talking people, so still is the most popular one. Cervantes is the tag imposed by cervantes witness, so if you want to get their upvotes you use it. And castellano is another tag for the same language promoted by witness castellano. But there is also some controversy about this outside steemit, the language that you know as spanish origins in the Reign of Castilla, Spain; so Castellano is the original name for the language and maybe the best suited since in Spain there is a lot of other language also speaked by spanish people like catalan, gallego, vasco and so on.
So, I´m sorry for this "almost a bible" coment, thanks for reading and i hope you find interesting.
If you want to know more, maybe you could read this post I made a week ago:
https://steemit.com/blog/@jcalero/thereasonwhyaminnowlosthope-mrhrno260r
I really thank you for such an honest answer.
I didn't know that most users are from Venezuela. I'm aware of the bad economic situation, but I didn't think it would have such an impact on the number of users on the Steem. I thought that it is more or less equally distributed across all Spanish-speaking countries.
Your comment opens eyes to many issues and many real problems, makes you think about it, which is why I appreciate it so much.
Saludos desde Polonia!
That´s what I try to do, no one talks about it because they need the votes and the best way to have a decent reward is playing the game.
This happens all the time and everywhere, even in the steempress bot they use their power to censorship people and reward their inner circle. You see, steempress asked to this "leaders" to approve a white list and assign percentages of voting power according to quality (I guess) but when I checked steempress upvotes for spanish community noted the same, "inners" circles and leaders get an high percentage upvote (5%, 7%, 9% or more) and the others 1.75% or a bit more. Even if they have a better content and more influence on the community, again, too much power in to few hands.
IMHO is clearly a abuse of power and a disrespect to fredrikaa and howo, but i have no power instead of speaking my mind and hope that people open their eyes.
Sadly this comment it's all negativity and
from a pessimisticc point of view, I wouldn't pay attention to what this "user" said, most if not all of his statements are driven by emotion and his own experience in the platform. While some of what he stated holds a bit of truth, the reasons behind that happening are nothing close to what he says. Oh, if you don't believe me this comment is full of emotion and mixed feelings, check out a post from him from 8 days ago, you'll see what I talking about.
Some may call it pesimisn, I call it realism. By the way, did you know the roman saying: "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion." En castellano, "La mujer del César no solo debe ser honesta, sino parecerlo"
I talked about censorship and here you are, telling @jacekw "hey, don't pay attention, this guy is fucked up" 👊 well done, you prove my point.
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That's not even close to censorship XD
As you are entitled to your opinion, I'm entitled to mine, its a free decentralized world, my friend. And yes, when someone is incredibly biased towards something, their opinion is usually dismissed, they can still have it, but no one will take it seriously.
Falacia ad hominem xD
Hominen viciado y parcial ;) por cierto, ya te ibas de la plataforma no? Adios
No sé, últimamente desde que no me importa ser incomodo me estoy divirtiendo demasiado como para irme.
No incomodas, a mí me gustan las discusiones y de hecho poca gente se enfrasca en ellas conmigo así que las disfruto cuando no son con la intención de destruir por destruir. Pero ahí es dónde en mi opinión estás mal, desde el día uno podías haber sido incómodo (tus palabras, no mías). En la Blockchain, como dirían en México, cada quien es libre de hacer con su culo un papalote si así lo quiere.
Confirmation bias occurs from the direct influence of desire on beliefs. When people would like a certain idea/concept to be true, they end up believing it to be true. They are motivated by wishful thinking. This error leads the individual to stop gathering information when the evidence gathered so far confirms the views (prejudices) one would like to be true.