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RE: Steemit, Seinfeld and Success: "Quality Content" and a Show About Nothing
So...here we go...
My view about Steemit has completely changed. 2 years ago (when I joined Steemit) I had the innocent thought that I would be rewarded for the quality of my posts. This went on for a while, but things here have evolved and for the worse.
Everything turned purely business. The bots do away with our "innocence" and in Steemit the boss is who has a lot of money and influence (lots of money), not who generates content. In my view, the social model of Steemit is very flawed and the future of it is very uncertain.
I hear what you're saying @jsantana, and I mostly agree that the change has not really been for the better, at least not in my opinion.
I had similar hopes when I started here, and I remember reading quite a few posts from the early adopters of Steemit about how this had the potential to become a "great repository of information on the blockchain" with people sharing all sorts of articles they'd written about their particular areas of expertise.
Sadly, it has turned out that these ideals were broken... because our community here turned out to be just another reflection of external life. MOST people are not idealistic and wanting to create greater future for everyone, they are just greedy and want money and don't really care about anything else.
Is the social model flawed? I don't know if I would say that... I am more likely to say that the social experiment gave everyone much different results from what had been expected.
Does that make me feel a little sad? Yes, absolutely.