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RE: We Might As Well Rename Steemit to Shitpostit
Thats a part of social media. To me social media just made it easier for people to try to gain fame and with it some money. I never really liked it but its the way the world works. Steemit can change for content creators but even then there is very little true valuable content in this platform.
If it focused on this aspect there would be no investors and I would not see a point to people using it just to upvote some content creators. I think shitposting is a necessary evil because if we were honest there is very little potential in a steemit platform that is for content creators and not your average joe.
You make some very valid and reasonable points here. The issue is not so much the shitposting in itself, it's the whales with high amounts of Steem power shitposting and then self-upvoting it or using paid voting bots to get to the trending page.
I think if these whales shitposted and didn't self-upvote, people would be surprised to see these posts would be valued accordingly and make nothing. It would not be an issue personally, the bidbots are a whole other kettle of fish.
I wholeheartedly believe self-voting should be significantly handicapped, make a self-vote worth half of what it currently is and incentivise voting up other content (increasing curation rewards). I think you would see better content rise to the top.
There will always be shitposting, but I am a strong believer a shitpost is not worth anything more than a few dollars, most definitely not worth $40+ like some of the posts I have been seeing.