RE: Steem is Crashing - Wanna talk about it? or even better, do something about it?
"The way the post rewards are distributed now is wrong. The top posters get too much while it's really hard for a new comer to even get noticed and even harder to get a few dollars worth of rewards... This problem is increased by everyone wanting to upvote the same posts. "
I agree.
When you say "ind a way to limit voting on top authors", there is a solution. The community. We are our own enemies here. We are doing this to ourselves. The curation is supposed to reward meaningful content as the goal in the white paper. But, most influx of users are focused on themselves and making money, not on helping the quality success of Steemit, or the world for that matter, by creating, and curating, higher quality content. They are too low consciousness and focused on jumping onto the money-making bandwagon and cult-of-personality popularity of other people to try to "gain" SBD and SP.
I create high quality content that is trying to make people aware of meaningful quality information relating to the current condition of the world and themselves, how their consciousness functions, in an effort to improve the quality of thinking and in turn the quality of actions that will improve the quality of life in this world. Other people are doing similar.
Those who focus on the money, and try to post garbage fodder low quality content, and clouding up the "new" stream and making it hard for Steemit to improve and be successful as a meaningful quality content media platform. I am trying to get people to understand that they need to focus on quality content creation and curation to help Steemit evolve as a quality success for quality content, and in turn that will help the world, instead of focusing on financial gain by curating to popular posts and posting irrelevant "entertainment" content to try to get as many upvotes as they can: Steemit Succeeds if We Make it Succeed - Analysis to Help Yourself and Steemit Grow in Quality
Please consider reading it and sharing it. I want more people to understand this important issue. Upvote only if you value and appreciate the content, as I do with other posts. I want the message to get out and be understood, more than I care for the upvotes, although on this platform they are hand in hand... I have shared on FB.
Thanks you for recognizing this issue in your post. It is a serious issue that needs to be addressed or else the qualtiy of Steemit will go down and so will the success, and then there will be no Steemit. It is ultimately up to the people in the community to understand this importance and change their behavior accordingly.
Take care. Peace.
You state: "We are our own enemies here. We are doing this to ourselves. The curation is supposed to reward meaningful content as the goal in the white paper. But, most influx of users are focused on themselves and making money, not on helping the quality success of Steemit"
I agree, but I fear that this is a tough battle. This is an example of what in economics is called a prisoners dilemma. If the system is such that actions which are detrimental to the society will benefit the individual, than the society will lose.
Look around you and see In how many environmental issues this is the case, and not just environmental,...
Personally I try not to care about the money. I try to write good content, engage in meaningfull discusssions and if I make a couple of cents or a dollar, all the better.
In the long run, I am confident that steem will stabilise. The lower the value goes, the less "quick buck artists" will be out there, and the less the monetary value of a boob post will be. From there on, it can begin to move ahead again. (that being said, like everyone, I would like steem to rise to the moon, for which we need a gigh quality community)
"The lower the value goes, the less "quick buck artists" will be out there, and the less the monetary value of a boob post will be. From there on, it can begin to move ahead again."
Thank you. We need to hit rock bottom and cleanse all the crap out that way before we can rise up again as a better platform. Sucks, but it makes sense. I plan to be in it for the long haul.
"In the long run, I am confident that steem will stabilise."
I agree @walkerlv
You're right you say we do this to ourselves but I can't trust each individual on steemit to think about the benefit of the community before their own profits. That's why I think it would be way more efficient to fix limits.
I agree as well.