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RE: My rant on how steemit used to be, and what it has become. Pictures are worth a thousand words. Heres both!
I'm not greedy, I'm just using my stake. It doesn't help my investment of time or money to retain people who will not/can not put money in and hodl.
Doing what I can. We have 37 whales, 237 orcas, 1689, dolphins, less than 9000 minnows and nearly 250k redfish.
The minnows better start resetting their expectations and realize there is not enough support to catch them all. They aren't going to make a lot of money until they build their accounts. It is just impossible. Stop telling them they should be able to get dolphin and whale votes. Let them be pleasantly surprised when they do.
Come on, we have to set realistic expectations not complain.
As I said, I am speaking about whales and orcas... those with steempower over lets say 100k? the real movers and shakers on steemit with potential power to make change.
I feel you may be taking it a bit personally, when I have no intention to A) tell anyone what they HAVE to do and B) I am speaking generally about large accounts. (while you have an impressive 15k self earned as you said, I am not talking about your size of account. That is very impressive though and I wish I had done the same.)
I am not telling the minnows to do anything. I just feel that steemit can be a better place. But I understand we all wont see eye to eye.
I am not complaining. As I have done loads of work with many of the communities on steemit, I understand earning your place.
I just see alot of great content that could be upvoted. Truly good content, that cant because everyones tied up delegating to bots or such. What I am saying and have the total right to voice my opinion about is that many whales dont even upvote content. its all delegated to bidbots which we all know just go to the highest bidder. So out of those lets say 270 ish whales and orcas, who even has the SP free to upvote great content when it comes by? not many I would guess. But like I said we wont all see eye to eye.
I realize I sound like I am taking it personally, it is because I care about the issue.
We have to realize the whales hold their stake, and I don't think they are going to change. So, we need to set those expectations with the community.
I also acknowledge your post sounds like you care as well. :) I just want to put our effort into things we can control and setting expectations. :)
Cheers and thanks for being involved.
That is perhaps the more realistic way to look at it. Well said. I enjoyed the conversation! :) I will put efforts towards things I personally can control. thank you for the dialogue!
I'm not looking for your vote on this, I thought it might be worth my time to share this with you, if we can get more people talking about owning the community and things we can change, maybe we can change the culture. :)
https://steemit.com/steemit/@whatsup/we-have-37-whales-and-129-615-redfish
Consider it done :) read, resteemed and upvoted. I agree we have to try and do something!