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RE: It's Really Starting To Stink In Here!
I'm really not indulging in envy here. What I'm talking about is different, I'm glad for those who are recieving, truly. However, if the goal here is meritorious curation and content creation , well then that is being abused. Voting your buddies money, this is a market here and in that sense there is a lot of questionable backscratching going on.
Well people do have bots that follow them. Someone has decided person X always writes cool things so I'm going to write a bot to always up vote X's posts.
That does kind of suck.
Yet complaining about it won't fix that. They did give us a free environment. There are exploits. They may prove to be a problem.
I don't see them fixing it on the blockchain, but since everything runs on top of that and steemit.com is just an interface for the blockchain I wouldn't be surprised to see people make different portals from steemit.com that show information in other ways. It won't stop the bots. You have to scrap the freedom to fix the exploits. Someone decides who's voice is important and who's is not, that is where the decline stops because you've now allowed a human to force their subjective views upon everyone. So it IS a good thing, but it is also new, and we have a lot to learn about how to deal with an environment like this.
They can't give away money. They can't take your money. They can't redistribute money. It is free.
At the moment the system is lopsided but I do think that is going to even out over time. It actually has begun if you look close enough, but it is a slow process for now. Actually, it is pretty damn fast, but it is slower than many people would like.
They are approaching this like it is a finished product, when it is still in beta. Some strange things can happen, but with the steemit.com code being open source I completely expect to see other portals to interface with the blockchain. Your money, and your posts reside on the blockchain so it doesn't really matter which website you view it from.
It is truly a paradigm shifting moment I believe. I am sure we'll encounter problems. They won't be solved by us attacking each other... you and others inspired me to write what is my personal favorite of my posts so far... check it out.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@dwinblood/let-those-shouting-cronyism-ponzi-and-corruption-be-the-first-to-cast-their-stone-upon-the-beggars