WHAT THE INCREASING STEEM PRICE MEANS FOR STEEMIANS!
Over the last few weeks, the price of Steem has increased to around $1.15 at this time of writing.
I am sure that you already knew this, but if not it is nice to be reminded of this fact! However, the increase in value also brings more attention to the Steemit platform and places it under more scrutiny.
It is more important than ever to protect the future of Steemit, as we recognise that this platform has huge potential along with the affiliated Smart Media Tokens. It is our duty, on a decentralised platform to ensure that as a community we are providing the most useful content and promoting the most valuable contributors.
This platform is so vulnerable to exploitation at this early stage. We are used to seeing on a daily basis useless posts that are earning relatively huge amounts of steem. This is purely in hope of reciprocity. High value members of the platform are publishing low quality content yet still receiving praise and steem from community members hoping to receive a like in return! This is incredibly short term thinking and if it continues will undoubtedly lead to the failure of Steemit as a platform. This would be a huge shame.
I am overjoyed to see the quality and variety of contributors on Steemit. The posts by @cryptobobby, @jrcornel and @starkerz are notable examples. Even @antonburton and started the series Crypto Nights as a Steemit series to keep people up-to-date in the world of Steemit.
As users we have to accept responsibility for our actions as a community. These useless posts and spammy contributors will only trend if we allow it! Let's be responsible with our posts and likes and we will reap the rewards in the long term.
The next episode of Crypto Nights featuring @starkerz will appear on @antonburton blog tomorrow and be focussed on the positives and negatives of the Steemit platform.
New user here - what can/should individual users do to help?
Comments and feedback are an important part of the social interaction that makes Steemit interactive. Alex is highlighting what he considers spam posts and people gaming the system. He makes a valid point about resposibilty in that, just because a system can be gamed dosen't make it ok to game it. There is no reward in that. People who game the system can be easily spotted. Constant upvoting their own blogs or comments, that have little to no real content value and zero interaction, for example. Whereas upvoting ones own content is fine, the system is designed to allow that and there are reasons for it. abusing it however, can spoil the user experience and ruin the sociability of the platform for others. Alex and Anton produce some great original content in Crypto nights and offer some valued opinions. You can learn with them and others who support and follow.
appreciate your kind words @johnchamberlain
welcome @maxg - just post what you are passionate about and make it your own!!
Alex
I've been saying this forever, and I do believe the best way around it, is to follow and be followed by quality peeps, and only focus on them. It's the only solution I could come up with sadly.
agreed @tolkatore
Hey thanks, and good luck!
just heard you on the crypto night episode and started following. Gets me so excited to see you smart tech minds jumping in and helping out the community and sharing your information. huge thanks will be watching your posts
that means a lot @soundlegion we are working hard every day on improving the series!
Alex
Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it. :)
@jrcornel it is quite alright sir! you deserve your place as a valued content creator because you consistently produce original and high quality posts!
The community could learn alot from you!
Alex
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Don't post shit, or leave yes man comments, and you'll do fine.
Saw the sky, saw the river, saw many stars .. today and steemite who are my real friends ... !!