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RE: It's okay to love Steemit, but stop pretending that the platform is healthy.
I have done well on Steemit and will continue to use it, but its hard for me to understand how people can fall for someone who is so clearly full of it. I wont put anymore support into the platform with a sociopath being the face of steemit. This article will probably get crushed, but I commend you for speaking out!
Yep, and my posts have been attacked on here before, which is yet another reason why it will most likely not succeed.
I hear ya on the whole Jerry thing, and the sad part, is that he doesn't even hide his bias.
Dude has gone all in on Steemit, and actually uses peoples up-votes to line his pockets, and to also create advertisements that actually just benefit his accounts, and not Steemit, because he targets them to shit spammy countries.
I noticed that as well and asked him about his income level targeting on his ads along with demographic targeting info a while back. I have yet to hear anything and I am not holding my breath
He targets all the shit countries, and we wonder why Steemit is filled with beggars in the comments. It consts pennies to target those folks, and then he pats himself on the back, for bringing spam over to Steemit in droves... just sad.
Less than a penny in some cases, I am an avid user of Facebook ads and google adwords so its nice to see that I am not the only one to notice this. I do not like to call them shit countries though. I would prefer to say he targets users that will make him look good and benefit him the most with no regard towards benefiting steemit.
Ah yes, and my apologies, but you are exactly right.
Although, no one has really called him out on it, well not anyone at the top that is.
Check out the likes and dislikes on his latest videos
and you will see tons of people calling him out in the comments.
This guy did a very nice video asking Jerry to tone things back a bit
All the negative feedback shows that people are getting tired of the BS and although it may be muted here it will be amplified outside of steemit. Jerry has the potential to do amazing things for steemit if he takes the advice from those who are asking him to rethink what he is doing.
He definitely has to lose that stupid fucking hat!
He did, so we can get the torso view, not the same Jerry without it, I asked him to put it back on! : )
I'm seriously thinking about forking the source code and start my own platform.
The idea was great, but the current situation isn't any good. And honestly I think we have already gone to far to make the platform honest.
As long as the problems aren't fixed, the userbase will kill the platform. Sadly.
What surprises me the most is that the Company beside steemit doesn't even make an effort to fix the platform.
You think they would, because they kept a whole lot of Steem for themselves, and the better the platform does, the more their Steem is worth.
Has anyone checked their accounts, are they powering down?
If so, maybe they just don't care anymore.
If you do make your own platform, that'd be great if it allowed votes to be counted equally regardless of the amount of currency a post is worth (I'm not sure if that's possible or how it would work). That would allow certain posts to still earn a considerable amount, while giving many other great posts a chance to be really seen, and could stop the whole pay-to-play thing.
I've always thought that one of Steemit's biggest problems was the fact that you can basically buy influence; that also seems to go against the spirit of what decentralization is about too. I still believe that a system where everyone has an equal vote is the way to go.