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RE: A Message to @dantheman, @berniesanders and @smooth
Steemit isn't a lottery, as much as it is a scratch ticket. There was about a two month era, when just about anyone could take a medium sized crap on their keyboard and pay their rent for three years, but I missed it by a week.
I tried to come up with something to say about saving Steemit. All I could muster was "meh". I'll probably try to continue to post things that benefit my core followers, but other than that, it doesn't look to me like very many people care. If I can find something better to do, I'll probably do it. I definitely won't be trying to talk anyone else into joining. Whatever, Lates.
Well, your opening paragraph speaks to your predominant reason for being on Steemit as financial, so I can understand your apathy towards making an effort to help.
I on the other hand see way more value in this site than that of a monetary nature, and so, I don't plan to reduce my efforts to help this platform any time soon.
I hope that you change your mind here, because I feel a successful Steemit could benefit so many people. At the moment, Steemit is the community. If this sentiment you express continues to grow then we are surely doomed to failure.
Financial is not remotely the only reason I've been here. If it was, I'd already be long gone. Most of the other reasons have been rendered moot. Financial is one of only couple left. The other reasons can be much better served elsewhere. I would be wary of jumping on a quip and assuming volumes. When I do it, I usually don't come out looking very good. Some of my favorite people have already been driven away from here. I think it's funny how smooth thinks that flagging people's hard work is going to help attract a large user base. It's hilarious. Predictable for someone whose blog looks like an empty parking lot. He says curation is more important than content, but without content there would be no purpose at all for curation. Here is the reference.
https://steemit.com/knowledge/@krnel/is-this-quality-knowledge-i-put-out-not-helpful-to-steemit-flagged-for-quality-getting-rewarded#@smooth/re-lifeworship-re-the-ego-is-you-re-lifeworship-re-krnel-is-this-quality-knowledge-i-put-out-not-helpful-to-steemit-flagged-for-quality-getting-rewarded-20170115t220116000z
I will continue to try to benefit the, approximately, two dozen people who seem to think my content is of value. I won't be able to spend as much time on here as I'd like, because time is still money, to some extent, and I'm not independently wealthy, and entitled, like some. Don't fret, though, if the most powerful people on Steemit only log in to sh*t on people, it won't be around long.
I didn't realise last night but, I had already seen this. And I mentioned my distaste for it to @smooth on @dantheman's post a couple of days ago. I hadn't read the comments until now however, and was very surprised by what I found there. It seems we have a bigger task on our hands than I initially though. Still, I'm not giving up so easily.
I'm glad I was wrong. I'm going to have to read that tomorrow because I'm simply too tired and my eyes are starting to fail looking at this bright monitor.
Have a good night-