If rewards were removed from Steem, would you still blog/vlog on Steem? 

Now, I really do not want to know your answer. I only want you to think deeply and sincerely answer it in your heart. 

What were you told before you joined Steem? 

Before I joined Steem, I made a Facebook post asking my friends to introduce me to any online job that would earn me money. Then a pseudo account on my friends list gave me the link to join Steem. 

Can you really be sincere? What motivated you to join Steem? 

I joined because I wanted to make money online. 

However, I believe so many others joined because they wanted a free access to owning cryptocurrencies. 

Do you really think anyone will still visit your blog/vlog if they don't have any other thing to benefit from you or your Steem allies apart from the messages you pass across? 

I have been writing on facebook for free and I usually have people liking and commenting on posts. I also have a secret group where I teach people different things and they respect me a lot there, not because of what they think they could gain from me outside what I teach, because I really had nothing to offer them aside that. 

Although I must confess that I really don't like writing, I enjoy what I do here because it has always been my desire to console the broken hearted, comfort the troubled and motivate the depressed and helpless through any means possible. And Steem has given me the opportunity to do that and yet be rewarded. I strongly believe I'm changing lives through my activities here. 

So, the answer is "Yes". I believe people will still visit my blog even if they have nothing else but my teachings to benefit from. As a matter of fact, I believe that if there are no more hunts for rewards, I'll have more people visiting my blog. 

Now, can you(yes, you reading this post) also sincerely answer this question? 

If there was one thing you could do or suggest to make Steem more interesting and attractive to users what would that be? 

I'll build Steem in such a way that people will be motivated to join it because they love it, rewards will just be an additional bonus. 

How would you do that? 

I really don't know right now, but I have been thinking deeply; people are not paid anything for being on facebook, yet they have millions of users from all across the globe. Same thing goes for twitter and instagram. I believe there is (are) something they are doing that greatly satisfies a particular human need and I'll like us to apply that here. 

On facebook, I write my posts freely without the fear of some whales downvoting it because they don't agree with my opinion. Somehow, I feel like the queen of my kingdom there. 

Also, when people comment on other people's posts, I know it's not because of what they stand to gain. So, I enjoy going through the comment section on facebook because when people express an opinions from their hearts, not for some benefits or rewards, it makes it very interesting to me. But I don't try it on Steem, especially on a whales blog, a whale's friend blog or someone with high SP, because I know very few truth can be found on such. 

Furthermore, there are a lot of things I see being celebrated here and I know people will not look at them a second time if they were posted on other social networks. 

I just want Steem to grow above the monetary rewards. But I really don't know how. 

No matter how hard you try to deny this fact, I know most of us here want the money, but how about making it more interesting and still getting the rewards? 

Sometimes, when I want to laugh, I go to facebook. There are so many pages there to change one's mood immediately. And it is more interesting because the best comedian gets the highest followers, likes and comments. I want Steem to be like that. 

Almost everything can be found on facebook. I want Steem to be better off. 

I want it to be that when someone is looking for a place to get motivated, the person will search on Steem. When people need accurate crypto News, they will come to Steem. When they want to read about their best football team, they will visit Steem. Etc. 

But how can that be achieved, when things on the trendy page could discourage anyone who isn't just looking for online money. Don't get me wrong, some things on the trendy page deserve to be there, yet, if you are sincere enough, you will agree with me that some are so discouraging. 

The truth remains that Steem cannot reward all its users equally. And friends cannot be stopped from upvoting friends. But can it be done in such a way that real interesting articles would occupy our trendy pages even if they have little payouts? Can those commenting on such articles be rewarded specially? 

One thing I despise the most is biting the hand that feeds you or once fed you. Steem has added a lot of value to my life. I have found a lover, good friends and gotten financial rewards from this platform and I feel I owe Steem the responsibility to work for its good. 

I'm not writing this to compare Steem to facebook in a demeaning manner. No, I only feel pained that things are going wrong, Steem is fast becoming less interesting and it seems like us who are on board this ship do not even care about saving it. 

I really don't know how things could get better. But everyone who truly cares about Steem knows a lot of wrong stuffs are happening here and would want things to be addressed properly before it becomes too late. 

If you have in anyway benefited from this platform, it will be unfair not to work for its good. 

Let's save Steem. 

If you were given the opportunity, what would you do to make Steem Better? 

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