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RE: Why are so many “power account” payouts down? And why so drastically?
This is true. I do it.
By that same account, there's very little here that interest me. Most of the content here is from daily bloggers posting about random feel good thoughts, travel blogs, themselves talking about something they aren't an expert in, food. Etc. All of this content produces little value to the masses and we all know what happens to blogging websites that built themselves on that model....
The only difference steem can make is if people develop more applications that leverage the blockchain to centralize the data that is on it. The steem condenser will otherwise be the equivalent to yahoo message boards, a total complete fucking mess. Except it was the best thing of its time. Steem has a plethora of better alternatives.
It's a complicated cycle. When we have no interesting content to be easily found - we rather spend our upvotes somewhere else. If people see Steem as a platform which works better with bought votes than quality content, we will not attract quality content creators.
I'm not seeing any issues with people treating Steemit like a random blogging site or Facebook, posting selfies and such. However the issue is that they are doing it for money (otherwise they usually would use more fluently working sites) and when they don't get any large upvotes with their pointless material, they just leave. Or buy some upvotes.
Steemit has too many flaws compared to other services it would be attractive without the rewards.