I came for the community but stayed for the money:

Of course, I am joking and twisting the phrase "I came for the money and stayed for the community".

The price is low and Steemians are grumpy again.

Remember Charlie Shrem, The Dollar Vigilante, SteemSports, The guy who wanted to sell Gold Powder to consenting adults?

Do you remember how the community treated those accounts?

Remember flagging that Racist? Or the Anti-Vaxxer?

Not just a nice flag though, generally followed with a scathing personal attack.

Remember when we ignored the YouTube star or attacked the Meme Platform?

You will all tell me in the comments why it was justified, but many of us were hoping for a Free Speech platform where the votes decided who earned and who didn't.

You know how sites retain users? They have giveaways, spend advertising money, they engage with end-users and they make it easy for people to find and engage with others they may know or have things in common with.

Some want to say our early users do not matter because we will have dapps. Well, it takes about the same amount of energy to build a dapp on any of the blockchains that are focused on smart contracts or Dapps, so why Steem? If you were a business person, with a development team do you want to build on a Blockchain with declining price and users or somewhere there is excitement and momentum?

Restaurants clean even though they don't charge for it directly because people don't want to eat in run-down dirty restaurants.

People are attracted to happy places with fun people and yes, they want engagement.

Rambling thoughts, but I guess the point is all accounts large and small can play a role in helping to make Steem attractive to end-users or not.

Many are complaining about Steemfest and while I found the videos to be .. a bit boring those that were there seemed to be having a great time and they felt energized by it. In my opinion, that is great, we can use all the positive energy we can get.

Maybe the event didn't translate to video well, but was still a success for those who attended.

And those who want to complain about who sponsored it... Where was your money? Your ad?

Some of you need to stop complaining about what everyone else is doing and start doing something!

It's going to be a long grind before SMTs if the entire Market doesn't get a pump, and it isn't going to be an overnight success either. We will have to go through the phase where everyone attacks what was done, reminds us they had a better idea. Some will play Sunday Morning Quarter Back and post lots of ideas on how they could have handled it better.

People will write negative posts about Steem and bot them up to the top of trending, in the name of "contributing".

Yes, we are our own worst enemies.

@whatsup