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RE: R.I.P. Steemit - My Thoughts Good and Bad about the Steemit Platform
It is tough to see you go Steve but I 100% understand. You and the rest of the great content creators are all leaving this platform. I wish we could save the platform and have spent many restless nights thinking up a way we could save it. Unfortunately even if I traded my house for STEEM POWER my vote would only be worth enough to buy a Snickers candy bar.
-RIP Steemit
I can see your point, but at the same time I think persevering through growing pains makes a lot of sense. We are still in beta, and unless you have invested much of your own money, you have lost nothing more than time (though time is precious, we waste it often on other social media with no rewards).
I think instead of people leaving they should join together and make even greater content and use their voices for good. Yes there are problems that need addressing, but I hope some of the great writers will reconsider and stay with this platform and see where steemit heads.
People are creating great content every day. It goes unnoticed by the whales and their votes go to their sock puppet accounts. They are intentionally draining they system for their own gain.
People are getting so upset with the situation and their time is too valuable to spend here. The cryto community isn't very big and unfortunately as great content creators leave there aren't a lot of new people who have enough crypto knowledge and content creation skills to fill their place.
The reward pool is shrinking and if STEEM hits my price target of $0.05 in two months the entire reward pool for content creators for the day will only be a few hundred dollars of liquid crypto. The rest would be stuck in Steem Power. We know where any rewards will be going. Buddies and Sock Puppets.
There isn't a lot we can do. I have spent over 3 months creating content consistently and my upvote is only worth $0.01. Someone would have to put millions in for their vote to be worth anything and that is too risky for people to do.
The only ones that can do anything are the whales. If the top 50 would stop their power downs and send a message to everyone they are in for the long haul and also stop the bullshit with the sock puppets then we would have a chance. That would create stability and would make the content creators feel that this is a place to spend their time and that it can realize its potential.
80% of Steemit is the coolest thing we have ever seen. The other 20% is going to crush it if nothing is done soon.
It makes sense... I would like to see the whales experimenting and stop the power down for a week... It must be not so difficult to be patient for a week for a little experiment...