RE: What is it about STEEM that its tanking so hard? // An open letter to STEEMIT.INC
Great post @lordbutterfly and I have to disagree with @ned in saying it is 'profane'. You are not the only person that feels this way, and this is mild way of putting how a lot of the the community are feeling. @ned should take note, the is a lot more profanity elsewhere.
Ah @jerrybanfield, why do you think he was supported so much as a witness, he brought the traffic. But its not steemit incs job to market, and what I get from their message is that they want to focus on development, not marketing and its because they dabbled with other stuff, they lost focus. Now the shit has hit the fan.
marketing is required, no questions asked, but there is nothing getting in the way of you or I setting up a 'marketing' department, just like we have set up communities. Why do you want steemit inc to do stuff they are shit at? there are way better marketeers here on steem that the skills steemit inc now have. All we need is a great leader to do so. The business side of steem does not have to be done by steemit inc. its a decentralized blockchain, well its meant to be.
I previously set up a department here on steem, Blockchain Business Intelligence, people were actively learning to analyze steem blockchain data and I was providing free training for those that wanted to learn. Things were going very well until utopian came in and I could not match the votes lol.
Maybe if steemit inc see promising 'department' like communities the will consider delegations to help them add the business value that is needed. But right now, steemit inc needs to focus on the blockchain, scalability problems and creating SMTS.
So tell me, what business do you have that you would like to move, because I am personally in the process of moving mine and Id love to hear more about yours?
"Not Steemit.inc job. Not a job for @ned".
It doesnt really matter whos job it is, but Ned is the only leader we have however bad at his job some would say he is. Im all for decentralization but you need a leader, a face, to take you to a point where the platform could be self sustainable in every regard. We arent close to that point so our ship needs a captain.
Ned is being shy about it too much.
You can point to community leaders, but which community leader would you put forward and say: "This is the guy."
The community leaders we have arent "leaders", they are babysitters.
We need people with the quality of Bernie and Fyrst that push forward strong opinions and take no bs. Its just a shame that people like them seem to lack other leadership qualities necessary or they just lack the will to lead. Participating in petty feuds and on-chain controversies.
Cesar wasnt a great leader because he hugged his fellow Romans or play dice with them... He was a great leader because he marched his 13th legion across the Rubicon.
Someone needs to take charge and fast. When will we act? When STEEM falls to 60 in market cap? 80? How about below a 100?
My business isnt important because its silly to even consider it. I contacted a few devs before the layoff news in the SteemDevs discord chat. I talked a bit with them and decided to wait and see what happens. I work in tourism and had an idea for a front end on the STEEM blockchain that would act as regular website for my business with stake based purchases and crypto payment integration...
The market cap is what I look at too. Not the price and yes this issue bugs the heck out of me. I also agree there is a lot of hand holding and babysitting going on and not enough true leadership. I do hear what you are saying, but I respectfully disagree in the mindset of having one true leader of a decentralized platform.
Btw, i don't think its silly to consider your business options with steem , we still have everything to play for and you might end up regretting not being 'ready' to take action when the time is right.
I didnt mean a leader as to having 1 person to dictate everything. Which is why im saying to "dump" (rather fade out) STEEMIT.
What i do think is that we need a "figurehead" that will create "calls to action", that is able to move the community in a specific direction, someone that can develop a "cult of personality" around himself. Someone strong willed, opinionated and outspoken...
I could do analogies all day hehe: "A Steem Jesus with the community being his apostles".
Someone that can stand toe to toe with Tone Vays and Roger Vers of the world.
We need a guy like that. Someone that will leave the confounds of the STEEM blockchain and "take the fight" out there.
Ned just seems to nice. Like he played tennis in white sweaters as a kid and never got into a fight in his life.
We need someone and Ned is currently all we have. Question is if he will step up to the plate.