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RE: Steemit will not resist censorship: it will bring super-censorship and downvote wars
You make a valid point but I disagree regarding the rewards system encouraging people to NOT post controversial content.
People will eventually be fed up with the same "Hi, I'm a girl I like traveling and by the way, here's some bikini photos", "I made this website with beautiful graphs", "This is another average sob story" or "How to make money on steemit" posts. I, for one, already am.
Once this becomes a more widespread opinion it will not go unnoticed because suddenly such posts won't rack in $1k-$10k. I'm sure that will bring quite the revelation to the steemers, and hopefully help them realize that generic content is nothing special.
Hopefully you are right and that will bring more diversity of successful content, but I don't think it will help truly controversial (not evil, not hateful, but controversial) content.
Two years have passed since you commented on this post and guess what? The situation is getting worse as fuck! As what you have pointed earlier, bikini photos and beautiful graphs/charts are still two of the most profitable shit postings around here on Steemit.