WOW!!! I found a much better decentralised social media network guys!!! It's better than Steem!!!

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Oh mai gawd.

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I found it guys. The holy grail of blockchain-based social media networks! Their whitepaper says it all. I've read it about twenty-times now, guys. I can't sleep now! It's special, and in every way better than Steem. Guys, guys, hear me. This stupid Steem platform is just not my thing anymore. There's no hope here.

Everybody's so selfish now. All the inequality is making me sick to my stomach. Why are there so many assholes just not giving their votes away? Where's the "Proof-of-Brain"? We even have a top witness selling votes now. How amazing is that? But I will still continue to post here for you guys. I've run out of ideas anyway, so I'll just continue to speak my mind about Steem's many issues here all the time.

No problem, it's not about the money. It's about ethics and staying true to my heart!

A f**king amazing whitepaper.

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Yes, guys. The future is so bright! Did I tell you about the whitepaper for the upcoming super-awesome social media platform already? It's obvious their team of social experts have put a great deal of thought and real-life experience while writing the whitepaper. It's like they've done this so many times before!

I've really read through the whitepaper, guys. Trust me. Seems like it's almost guaranteed to be a 100% happy, optimistic, and super productive place! Everybody will automatically have a sense of deep respect for each other just by using it. I know I will if I get on dat boat earlier than everyone else, again!

Everything will be more fair and more equal. There will be no conflict. Everybody will be pleased all the time. And no one will complain. It's the place to find your meaning and purpose, guys. Wow, seriously - did you read the whitepaper?! It's really really next level! How can they make such a utopia on a decentralised network? With money being at the heart of it, no less.

Anyway, Steem is just a broken pile of sh*t that doesn't work. There's not even a good thing about it anymore. But this? This new blockchain-based social media network will be the holy grail. It will solve all the world's problems! Steem is nothing, seriously.

It's simple!

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Building a better social network with money is not rocket science, guys. We just need to know what people really want in life and then apply the knowledge in building a platform that works for those that want to make it work! By the way, it's not Synereo. That one got me excited for a while too, but obviously, those guys just weren't competent enough.

Ah I need to go and hang out in that new place now and meet all the new awesome people, unlike this fake place. Where's the website, you ask? Oh it's not out yet, but soon! Now we hang out on Telegram. So stay tuned. I'll tell you more about the platform soon as we anticipate its launch! The new social media network is going to be so great, so magical, and like 1,000,000 people will adopt it instantly and everything will work out fine! By that time, Steem will be left in the dust.


Sorry for the chest-thumping. Just channelling my inner warrior.

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Hahaha, it's not white it's blue coloured!!! You need to take off these glasses :-D

lol Never!!!! 😎

I knew you’d say that 😎😍

LOL ded. superwhite indeed.

Oh no the @steembirds are leaving too???? That white paper must be dope! Hahhahah

... and it can be used for dope too

👏👏👏🤣😂

Fantastic !

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Hi Kevin,

Nice parody, you got me at:

Oh it's not out yet, but soon! Now we hang out on Telegram. So stay tuned. I'll tell you more about the platform soon as we anticipate its launch!

I just wrote a controversial reply to our long time mutual friend @trafalgar, it's not the most agreeable reply, but it is a start of a deeply rooted need that we have to address, helping whales help themselves get more from Steem by stopping them from blowing their toes off.

Can you take a read of my comment and tell me if I missed something, or if I'm wrong to care, @trafalgar could really help our comedy community turn the Steemit ship around (especially retention and on-boarding talent) with the power of comedy....just like what you are doing here only 100x stronger with a community exponentially multiplying the influence inside and outside of Steem.

Thanks for listening

Sincerely,
Dj123

I don't think he's doing anything wrong after understanding what's been going on. Took me a few months to see - it's the tragedy of the commons with linear rewards. So now I'm feeling like a sucker for holding out for many months (not that I'm working hard), while losing out to most that are doing the rational thing of vote bidding and relentless self-voting, much to my dislike. If we shift away from linear rewards, low powered users will have less of an influence (which is partly another problem again), but at least profit maximisation activities could move away from total selfvote and abuses could be easier to curb. Will write up a post about this. Thanks @dj123, as for comedyopenmic, I'm gonna throw in a few votes every now and then along with other initiatives. Steem is many things.

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"So now I'm feeling like a sucker for holding out for many months (not that I'm working hard), while losing out to most that are doing the rational thing of vote bidding and relentless self-voting, much to my dislike."

I read your comment and have felt that really struck a cord with me as well. The frustration of seeing a lot of my support delegate their power away to the the voting bots and you certainly get that feeling sometimes that maybe I should just break bad and be a 90% self vote Rat Bastard or just run an upvote bot as well.

There certainly are a lot of positives going on here.

I seriously flip back and forth even within the same day of thinking HOLLY Shit this is the best thing of all time and all this development and activity is going on and it is changing people's lives around the world ........ to thinking that I have spent too much time here and really never made the return on my time and money that I anticipated.

Personally I think shifting away from linear rewards would be way worse than where we are now. 2016 Steemit felt like being a court jester trying to impress a god king. It was a very helpless feeling for sure.

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Hi Brian,

Here hence lies the problem:

The frustration of seeing a lot of my support delegate their power away to the the voting bots and you certainly get that feeling sometimes that maybe I should just break bad and be a 90% self vote Rat Bastard or just run an upvote bot as well.

For all smaller stake holder near the boarder size of minnow-dolphins and below, the economic benefit of self-upvoting is really not that beneficial, we can do much better using our upvote to networking (eg. Comment upvoting), encourage others, and in the spirit of adding value, bigger fishes who recognise our efforts still overtake our own payout from any self-upvote efforts.

The problems arise with those 50,000Steem and above seeing that talent to gain a $15-$25 post is not worth the effort when they can just bot it out.

In short you and I will never benefit as much breaking bad, we're just too small, we can only give up, and if enough of us give up adding great value to Steem it will become very bad for the bigger fishes.

They balance lies in part in this statement by Kevin

but at least profit maximisation activities could move away from total selfvote and abuses could be easier to curb

without Orcas and Whales withholding some modest percentage % SP back to be reinvested....there will be NO LONG TERM INCENTIVE for Value Content Growth and New Talent Retention.

Go read the Reply section whole post to see this argument laid out for all:

700,000SP Whale Upvoting Self 98%

https://steemit.com/funny/@traf/singing-in-the-shower

The truth is that the Whales Are The Ones who also need the education & Awareness on how they are stunting their own Steem value appreciation.

Thanks @dj123, you are the #comedyopenmic hero,
I am a small fish participating in the #comedyopenmic contest and I am happy that the entry I have on #comedyopenmic is always a lot of upvote people compared to my other entries.
And if @kevinwong join the contest #comedyopenmic we are very grateful.
Forgive me, as a disrespectful little fish for commenting on your writing, but me and all contestants #comedyopenmic will be very happy if you are in the contest.

I'd personally be in favour of trying something in between linear and n^2. Or else maybe the default acceptable position for every account here is to somehow have a good chunk of SP like 90% somehow coming back to voters, and only 10% gets distributed to others. Now i'm still at about 2% vs 98%, hence the suckerish feeling lol.

you're a good man Kevin, but even a strong community builder like you must have some influence on him, 98% is not sustainable, and when people of influence and talent do it, it's almost worst, it telling other talent and also leaders like yourself, that if you are in profit, or if you succeed here, DO NOT re-invest to build the house that homes your great wealth, let it slowly collapse.

would it not be better if they just cash out now at 10x profit, let new blood, new whales will probably do more than just pull close to 100% resources out and slow down adoption, talent retention.... the last 4 months we have almost 350-400K new accounts and dropping posting and even a slight drop in active usage rate in the last 2 months, plateauing at best.....how is that even possible a certain % should naturally be talent..... that is unless people don't get incentivised to stay cause the rewards are being slowly and invisibly pulled away?

frog in the boiling pot

I think there needs to be a push on changing the reward curve that currently incentivices selfish-mining. Now that I'm doing ~1-2% self all along, I might have my SP 50% lower than a purely selfish miner with the same SP today, in maybe a year or two. So in effect, I'll be having less to support others in the future from doing what I do today. Plus the big thing is that it's an open platform and everyone's free to do whatever they want - there's no guarantee of rewards. It's not like getting hired for a job doing X, Y, and, Z.

Why would anyone now give more of their votes away to help grow the network when on the long-term, the reward curve isn't encouraging more investors to spread out the votes other than to themselves? Now that I've not been onto selfish-mining ever since most people are onto it since HF equality was introduced, imagine how much influence has been diluted on my side?

It's almost a crime not to have kept up with the rational move for the long-term game after hf equality has taken place. I was a bit naive thinking most would stay on course of distributing the stakes to grow the network. It's really not clear cut what the best move is @dj123.

Sorry to say, but it's also arguable that it's easy for most new users to complain while providing trivial contributions (to be fair, like 99.99% of us) on the network, which on the whole, any rewards would be a great bonus that shouldn't be taken at face value at current valuations. But all in all, the reward curve could change to make altruism equally profitable so more people will shift away from selfish-mining. Either that or a community where connections are made closer over time so effective altruism can take place.

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An alternative is probably n1.05 curve, plus 50/50 author/curation reward destribution.

Thanks Kevin, it's important that guys like you help the minnows. Otherwise, the retention rate of steemit suffers.

Well what I don't understand in that context is that most (of the established) users disagree with the current design, but then nobody behaves as if they really wanted to change someting.

Excessive vote buying has never been addressed, and self-voting is totally accepted.

It's not even a hidden secret anymore. People open and use additional account(s) in order to maximize the personal outcome through self-voting as if it was the coolest thing.

I guess most people that are enthusiastic about new concepts simply look for something more honest than this. I'd include myself here.

Parody is a great way of pointing to problems, so thanks for that, Kevin.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. - P. Ustinov

Hard to blame anyone. Linear just has made it rational to do whatever that most people are doing now. It's just a different ball game. I think it's understandable as well. Like if I feel like I wanna take care of whatever community I like, wouldn't I have less of an influence from where I started if I don't join in maximising myself now? I definitely feel the compulsion to go this route seeing that I've been going from 1% self-voting to about 2%ish now, which is nowhere near the norm of 10%-90% now. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong as people are still free to exercise their vote however they see fit. Steem as a currency is working fine. It's just that it's unfortunate that the profit maximisation move now is to somehow acquire most of one's votes back to the self.

I just published an article about the importance of accountability in business, you may enjoy the read.

From my personal point of view, Steem's core problem is the lacking accountability.

Most of the time the community's demands are not taken seriously, and priorities seem to be mainly assigned according to profit and not according to growth.

How long are we waiting for the community feature now? One year? It was in January 2017 when it was announced for the first time. No other target in the Roadmap 2017 was celebrated more by the community than this one.

I perfectly understand when people start looking for something else now.
Obviously a whitepaper is nothing we can seriously measure and only time will show how promising the competing apps will effectively be. But then tell me how much do we know about SMTs? :-)

ONO will launch in less than 24 hours btw.

People are enthusiastic about the things they believe in.

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People are enthusiastic about the things they believe in.

exactly

we believe comedy will greatly help bring excitement and retain talent in Steem, but only with participation and that happens when we can get leaders, good people, and big fishes willing to help make it exciting

i like your respond above, tells me you have a lovely head on your shoulders

I'm a noob finding my way around this place ans feeling inspired by the potential and heartbroken by the reality. There is so much for me to learn but one of the most glaring problems seems to be so easily fixed - the issue of self-voting. I don't understand why this wouldn't have been fixed by now. Is there an easy explanation for that?

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As we laugh at Kevin's parody, attending to this issue will show Steemit was never and will never be part of the band of jokes parading the cryptoverse in the name of heaven-on-earth social media platform

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This would have been a nice entry for week 9 of Comedyopenmic that brings out the banter, funny, witty, sarcastic and all round comic part of us irrespective of our location. I didn't even know people had sense of humour in Iraq until I joined this. Supporting the cause would be awesome

Deactivate the bots. Let's whales who want rewards lease their SP to minnow based communities needing them and everything will just be fine. Bidding bots are fucking thus platform up!

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greeting eurogee,

if the minnow based community is purely a for profit based to support primarily Steemian minnows with good oversight and accoutability, then yes, that would still be a crippling lease delegation, but better than majority spam paid sponsorship bit-bot like we have now.

however, if the community is driven for minnows but to reach out and expand Steem's influence in the webosphere, then it's more than 1,000% (10x) justified to give delegation support to give Steem a chance to not just survive, but thrive, and increase its exponentially on-boarding and retention rate to compete with any future Social Network Blockchain technology and future plans of established technology like facebroke as they too spear ahead into blockchain tech

the minnow based community ...

Maybe one of the fundamentel problems is that we tend to categorize community members according to their stake - and not according to their contribution.

According to Steem's Sweat Equipit Principle theoretically all forms of capital are equally valuable.

This means that those who contribute their scarce time and attention toward producing and curating content for others are just as valuable as those who contribute their scarce cash.

But this is just theory and not vivid culture on Steem.

For a new member that hasn't the money to buy himself a bit of attention, it's almost impossible to grow organically. I guess that's why the user retention is so terribly bad. Since four months we have the very same amount of active users, and the number of postings is even decreasing.

I think that's alarming and reason enough to wake up.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. - P. Ustinov

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Thanks for your insight.

...Since four months we have the very same amount of active users, and the number of postings is even decreasing.

This is very true. The only thing that can make this place thrive is for the big boys to lease out their SP to community leaders to support their communities. You will see one account delegated 2million SP while thousands are with none. I saying this out og experience, I have built @euronation community from scratch to 250 people. This is not people I got from steemit but pure virgin newbies gotten from holding online webinars,got them registered and still guiding up to untill today.

They have been earning less than 1$ and what do you expect: mass exodus. Something has to be done to address this otherwise it will become a community of just big men soon.

@eurogee

Acquisition is not the problem, retention is the problem (as you perfectly experienced with your own community).

If you don't have a good user retention, then actually nothing else matters.

Now you can stay and do circles around the very same issues until you get dizzy, or you can move on and spend your valuable time somewhere else.

I by myself am in a waiting position currently. Since November I've powered down almost all my Steem and invested it in other projects. Now I'm waiting for Steem's community feature to be implemented as well as for new applications to be launched on other blockchains.

Time is the currency, and we should invest it wisely :-)
All the best

I totally agree with you 100%! Many people from developing countries wouldn't mind earning 3$ per post.

@eurogee

I give you 100% for this

that's what the last whale told me but then he didn't upvote

Very unfortunately.

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not really, he's a whale, it's more unfortunate for the little fishes.... you know what I'm talking about retention and all

Sure

😂 I go wherever you go. Good thing I am powering down then.

Not going anywhere :) there only project i think is better than Steem (or actually, will help augment Steem) is Tauchain / Agoras. But they definitely don't do marketing-speak with their project/whitepaper :)

He wasn't serious. It just a tacit way to pass information

Sounds pretty serious to me :)

No he wasn't serious !

I'm half serious!

There is nothing as half serious !

The brilliance contained within this post is off the charts... Loved every damn word. :)

Haha thanks @ezzy man, it's a bit exhausting xD

Didn't get much from this post beside the ads feeling

Greetings, Kevin

I agree with you man. These photos you posted have brought me some travel memories that I made.

Making friends outside the virtual world is very important, both for the happiness and support that a person can have, and for their profession.

A person without friends tends to go into depression.

I left some of the comments of the posts, because his first photo put me brought good memories.

Thank you and good evening!!!!

The basic idea behind steem wasn’t so bad they just did underestimate 1 small thingy. A thing that has been crucial in what steem has become. And we can blame on the human race!
The thing they did underestimate is, now you are curious aren’t you, simple the greed of the human kind!
Besides this, they also forgot how selfish we, humans, are!
The only thing that could save us, besides the restrictions on bot usage, is interaction!
If I look at the interaction on the real social medias and compare it with the interaction here! Well than steem can’t be called a social media platform!

It's true, that's one thing very lacking on steem now. A place to find connections. Now it's kinda free for all :) Waiting for the communities function for a while now!

@kevinwon, jokes aside you should check out #comedyopenmic. I think it's the least selfish, fun and inspiring community on Steemit.

I'm not using this as an opportunity to exploit #comedyopenmics awesomeness, I'm just saying it as it is. Being one of the judges I really feel previlaged to be a part of this community, where the ultimate goal is not selfish but steemiversal.

If we want Steem to go high we better realize that everyone has a responsible. Make sure it trickles down or we can never get real growth, and the your Steem will also always be stuck at a single digit.

The rewards curve needs to change for any behavioural changes.

Did wrote a post today about a change request in the steem and busy.org frontend! Worth a read!

We have been waiting for communities since eternity sir. Steemit team should be quick..

100% upvote for this!

Thank you!

The bots are the real problem of Steemit!

We can blame in in the bots, that’s easy. But who is using them. Yes! Correct! People are using them!
The creators of the bots can be blamed but they just discovered a great business model. And they were right, cause people started to use them. So more bots came along. Which combined does disrupt the idea of the blockchain!
So, I don’t think that we only have to point the finger at the bots but also on the ones who are using them! If the bots wouldn’t have any clients, they would ran out of businss.
So yes, I can understand your viewpoint but we need to see the complete picture!

Very right indeed

I must admit kevin, you got my full attention :)

Yeah dude! Awesome! Funky! Grüüüvy!! Yo rock! Yo bock!
I know we could be awesome homes! And tell all yo peeps, it's gonna be a-MA-zing, dude.
No seriously, what's all this shit about? We've all been there, irony and stuff, you know, bangin' that pink haired chick from vipa's. Seriously bro, what's the newest thing under the sun? Are we all gonna be saved (from ironic Jesus, yo?) Anyway, this kinda shit just brings out the hipster in me. And that fucker is much deeper than I thought, cause we're all too reasonable to be reasonable, are we not?
So talk tacheles, or else... no upvote at this point! There're too many cute kitties out there, ya know wha'm sayn, right?

Is this some kind of sarcastic joke? Not sure if I should laugh or start brown nosing the telegram groups.

Haha i'm not sure. More like i'm just making fun of marketing-speak whitepapers.

Hahahaha, very cool article! Where Money is, in whatever form, there will be abuse. I would like to see some fundamentals changed at the Steem blockchain though, fundamentals that can reduce the abuse. Like the number of posts an account can publish per day. Like a channel accessible directly from the main Steemit UI showing only posts without bot booster services voted for the posts. Like removal of the Trending channel as we have it today. Like change of the channel one sees by default (which is Trending channel today). Like change to the reward curve away from linear. When Steem/Steemit can do that, it may become a better place. And maybe the most controversial, build in a mechanism for users to ID themselves to allow all sort of features to be applied across all accounts of the same user; Such system still allows anonymity of the user to the social network community, when implemented through a 3rd party ID service, and prevents abusive behaviour of individuals using many accounts; It would also allow to block self voting; It would even allow removal of vote bots.

Hhhh funny
When bad luck comes all at once .. feeling bad
Great post well done .. hhhhh

ive been making fun of these guys for a while lol its so ridiculous

Emotional intelligence is all it takes. And that isn't even as rocket-scientific as it sounds. EQ simply demands

  1. Pause

  2. Reflect

  3. Act

But know for many, "succeding in any venture is as easy as a bed of roses"

I don't know what you're talking about and i don't care

well, comment has been edited. goodluck matey

sorry

Not sure who these guys are ;) but actually i'm half joking. There's really a project that's better imo, but doesn't market itself with those lofty promises.

Thought you were talking about appics haha. What's the better project? Or is it top secret :(

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Wow, those devs are total geniuses, and I'm guessing they have access to a Delorean if they can solve all the seen and unforeseen problems before it's even launched. Steemit is such rubbish. Why am I still here?

Same question i keep asking myself. Oh i know. The aphrodisiac in ned's hair product keep drawing back to this shit pile

I love that Ned's hair is a thing now. Ever since @gohba.handcrafts saw the light and suggested it to @benleemusic as a song lyric, my life has been so much richer. Not monetarily - it costs a lot to watch Ned while he sleeps appreciate Ned's greatness from a court-mandated distance.

Some are even historians of the steem CEO's black forest. I fear you SamD

Hahahajabb😂

Come on @kevinwong why not convert this into a #comedyopenmic entry? For fun!

God fcuking bless you for giving a humorous answer to the very question our beautiful "optimists" have vowed never to ask!

Haha what question? And how to convert? You mean just the tags? There's a lot going on :)

Hahaha i suspected it would end like this,i sensed when you kept beating around the bush and not releasing the news....you kept saying white paper.

This post is also sarcastic in a way! No social media site will ever be 100% as you say hahaha.

Its fascinating that most people will not read the ending in small letters!! Our Steemit people dont read.....just rush for upvotes hahaha

i suspected it would end like this,i sensed when you kept beating around the bush and not releasing the news....you kept saying white paper

Sounds familiar!

what he did there is not different from the approach of the Next Big Social Media Utopia to be built on a blockchain

oh well tbf, most people don't read much anywhere else too..

The best thing about this is that I can't be 100% certain if you're serious or not!

Also - it reads like more of a frustrated lamentation rather than voicing your inner warrior.

The latter would be pointless - there's no obvious 'enemy' 'causing' the tragedy of the commons, and no obvious solution either!

As you say - RPR is hardly a 'grand scheme' problem - not compared to profitting from child labour etc.

Also I think people need to wake up to the fact that most virtual content really doesnt have that much inherent value compared to offline tangible pursuits.

Personally I remain thankful that this is a minority income stream for me!

I'm heading for the sun drenched hills too, I hear they'rejust around the corner...
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collaborative commons platform :) with some funky econs going on right now!

Ahahaha is that a satire @kevinwong? Work hard, learn harder. Stay connected and enjoy the platform.
We absolutely need a collaboration 💪

I literally just took up a freelance writing gig for a friend who's helping to market some upcoming ICO.

Then I literally gave it a pass cause... it was all so generic and full of typical talk about the hype of a new ICO.

For real... Steemit is like THE ONLY place with real humans and so many of us underestimate how important that is.

hard to write eh? there could be other unicorns, but hopefully SMTs make more devs awake.

Great idea for my cartoon... hahaha... nice one Mr. @kevinwong

Lol waiting to read it :D

on point as always

haha thanks @clains. tough business :)

While reading this, I kept not going back and forth between whether or not this wasn’t sarcastic. By the end I told myself that you were being facetious. Only because we I do not want to see Steem disappear, no pun intended. Not because I was able to actually decipher whether or not you were being serious.

Luckily after reading the comments I have my answer. Glad I found this, it kept me on edge for a bit 👏

Haha it was kinda lazily written. Just shooting out of my mind. Steem and I have just been on a rocky relationship past few weeks, it's becoming unbearable. just being dramatic :P

I understand that. Sometimes that is the best way to get your thoughts out there though.

If you think this place is unbearable, then perhaps my colorful blog will reignite your Steem flame.

I just posted one of my best blogs yet, a story about all of my tattoos. Perhaps you would enjoy taking a look.
I will leave the link below for you if you so choose to follow it :

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Nah steemit is okay as alright, it is just hard to start here but once your ball is rolling and you love blogging you will do better. That upcoming supposedly better social media, well who will be the people again? The same whales, dolphins, minnows, red fishes, planktons LOL.

Hahah that much I'd expect. I'm definitely not here to bash any social media attempts on the blockchain. I guess my point is just to make fun on marketing-speak in some of the lofty whitepapers out there. In the end it's people using the platform, and it's user behaviour that drives the app. Always a struggle between deliberate design vs user behaviour.

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It must be built on bitconnect or paycoin! They the best chains ;)
Maybe Verge or Tron but eh.
So when ico? ;) I dump all my steem for this!

Lol. Time will tell what'll happen to those coins..

Nice marketing strategy you have there my friend😎!

Still, flying from a platform to another and dreaming about free money and some mechanism which will magically fix the humans!?
Meh, not going to buy that one.
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Just empty the coffers and come back here :p lol

I get your view of others being selfish. But that's how life is. Looking forward to hear more about the platform.

My 2 cents - Just because a product is good, doesn't make it a leader in the market. You just need good marketing and you can sell junk.

Just look around and you can find a million products around you from Cola to what not?

That's true! Money making skills has nothing to do with substance..

Best thing I have read in awhile! I laughed my ass off.
I have certainly been frustrated and critical of different aspect of the STEEM blockchain but you are exactly right. STEEM is better than everything. Everything else is mental masturbation for the most part at this point. Hang out in Telegram! AAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

WOW, will there also be rainbows and daisies everywhere? What about a unicorn? 🤣 😂

Maybe for a while there's be mythical creatures :)

Lol

Like for real??

You mean you made my heart skip and pump like that for nothing in particular.....

Jeez...
Lol...

When you said this 👇

I've run out of ideas anyway, so I'll just speak my mind about Steem's problems here all the time and will continue to complain in here together with yall just to make a point!

I was like wow 😱.......
So have I.....

I'm definitely joining that new platform....

Hahaha.....
That's where you'll catch all anti-steem.

Lol, this post really made me laugh.....albeit, at myself 😂 😂 😂

That's where you'll catch all anti-steem.

Lol good insight. I might channel my anti-steem energy there, wherever that is ;)

Hahaha
Kev
You're extremely hilarious
That was a good joke

My gawd! Where have you found people complaining? On trending?
Damn, I should read trending more!)) Yeah, lets go for that whitepaper. The power of Whitepaper will help me make original content and become super rich!

yes that's the spirit Papi. one whitepaper to rule them all!

Yeah, it's crazy. The moment money is introduced people just throw everything out the window and are consumed by greed. We should stop paying creators here and turn this into a normal respectable social media platform. That should get rid of all the spamming and gaming the system. :P

haha you got that right. for now, we learn the ropes :)

Ha! Sadly, alotta people won't realize this is satire because "shit all over steemit" has been the thing to do lately. It's so tiresome. A few weeks ago, is saw a long time member with a 70 rep make a post titled "Im taking an extended break from this shithole." and, aside from going on about how horrible Steemit is, he said he was going to burn all post rewards to null as a martyr. That extended break lasted all of 8 hours. Still posts almost daily and sends hundreds of dollars to bittrex just as frequently.... I don't get it.

Lol it's the linear rewards imo. It puts people in some competitive tunnel vision (which makes people bonkers), but perhaps rightfully so because if you're helping grow the network, you're actually losing out to purely selfish actors (which are doing the rational thing really). I've been feeling like a sucker for not joining the fiasco.

OOOHHH NOOOOO! What would we do without our @kevinwong? 😱The place just won't be the same. What to do, what to do? 🤔 I'm at a loss...maybe I should just give up on blockchain thingies altogether. It's just no use...

Haha give up on blockchains and go back to massively manipulated twitter..

That's a GREAT idea! Twitter and Facebook here I come!!!! Back to posting about the things I love the most: my daily dinners, pictures of kitties and puppies and reading complaints about other people. Yess!!! Can't wait.

hey kevinwong, upvoted you, talk to me: [email protected]

Hi @yoo1900, I just published a how to solution to Google chromes media upload error. Kindly check it out please. Thanks.

https://steemit.com/steemit/@oladokun/how-to-solve-google-chromes-media-upload-error-unfortunately-chrome-has-stopped-error

Hahaha i think its funy because only steem is best and when ever you find much better decentralised social media network i will send you 10 SBD in your account @kevinwong

deal! haha maybe one day

But I like steem, people can't just build a social media platform in one day.
Dammit, Everything will be alright Kevin, I got your back! :D

Just messing around :) thanks @sadpotato

I'm sensing a hint of sarcasm here...

Haha.. it's just a pint of sarcasm :D

The grass is always greener somewhere else (-:

yep!

Okay i kind of went through this post like five times to make sure im reading right. Lol you hit it hot there but well, maybe youre just right. Hmmnnn, looking at you under my spectacles will you be right? Only time will tell, for me though, steem is bae

I'm mostly joking. There's a project that's better imo that could even help improve steem, but it's not laden with marketing-speak like most :)

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Oh i saw the funny tag...you are making fool of us...pulling our legs...i cant imagine a best place then steemit....

We can actually imagine a better place than steemit until it is time to start asking the right questions

Omg .!!! You got me real big there ,when I saw the topic, I wondered what else could be better than steem and you were so eager to share. Yeah I totally agree with you that steem will reign and have no competition because the future is so bright with steem.

Wrong again. We are not saying Steemit is lord. We just mean whatever it is they say is out there and will fix everything wrong with steemit deserves concrete expounding of how exactly it is going to be achieved.

We deserve more than Telegram groups!

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Oh, Really, new social media network site, it's true or you making fun :P
btw What is whitepaper concept?

Err... For a start: the colour is white

isn't there an old saying about sarcasm? Myself, i think it is an art form and by far one of the best forms of comedy....

This is the reason why I like you and read all your posts. You’re true to yourself and speak out your mind 👍

Lol !! I can smell sarcasm here !!

@kevinwong is Pulling our leg guys !!

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haha i thought that much was obvious :p

You always wrote something different with a funny End 😂

Don't forget to tell me about that so called super duper Next Generation social media based on Blockchain 🤓😅

just be alert. we will soon airdrop some of the tokens. prepare to send us some ETH tho

What more do you need if you have a well-written whitepaper? 🤣

Haha..i knew you were just joking when i started reading and noticed you were heaping a lot of praises on the so called betrer than steem decentralised media but was no mentioning it.
I would like to see such emerge though. Because so far i havent come across, read about or seen any.
Now, the chest-thumping and chanelling of inner warriors aside😀😀, wouldnt you like to see another decentralised social medai thats better than steemit?
Or do you think steemit the best that can be?

Steem is just incentivised internet, in some ways. Pretty sure there are many good designs but i'll be skeptical about marketing-speak whitepapers. Anyway, there's a project i know that's better that can even help improve Steem, but that's for another time :)

Oh...alright.
I'd gladly wait for that some other time.

The same Synereo was a disappointment, I was enchanted with the white paper but the final result looked alien to what I was expecting.
Is this next platform in heaven?

The platform is launching soon.. will see if it's heaven then :)

I honestly prefer less media more social, but people could argue what kind of social media prefer. There is a ton going to come up, I always like to give most of them a look. I guess everything new excites me. :)

Oh, an irony... but you must agree that if everything is Ok here, people will not look for a better place. It's just about peoples mood and good timing. Steemit have some problems and people talk about it... but they are not heard.

Steem is here to stay, others may come but Steem to me is a pioneer platform and I'll never forget it. I love it here, it's not fair neither is anything else in life.

If you're trying to be funny, you've succeeded.
If you're serious, I don't know what to say. I love steemit

he is both. what do you have to say now?

I've to say yuhoooo

great answer! imma vote you for witness on that next blockbuster social media to be built on blockchain

for now make do with Telegram group admin

It's really an honour
I never thought I'd make it this big.
I have my speech prepared, but it's too late, so I'm gonna pass

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE PLATFORM, PLEASE TELL ME!

I can't wait to see this platform that millions of people will adopt instantly. Must be really great!

Wow.....
I bet you didn't read till the end, if you did, you'd have found out the name yourself 😂

Lol, I'm joking around

I knew this was meant to be funny when I started reading, but reading about half, I really thought for a moment, that this is serious. 😂

Frist, I thought it is 1 April's post when I found no external links at a glance. And after reading the whole post I am confused and hope you will soon come with the good news for all.

Haha i was just joking @azizbd. Steem has problems but it's not something easily overcome. And I don't think it's entirely troubled. It works and people are using it.

It is true. I am hopeful to see positive changes here.

Haha... you nearly had me there, Mister! But, like all good jokes, this is serious, too, and contains truth:

I've run out of ideas anyway, so I'll just speak my mind about Steem's problems

Mmhmm, I hear you...

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Haha what's with the sphinx? i found out that it's actually much smaller than anyone's expectations.

The Sphinx is inscrutable, tact and mystery. Meaning I’m not divulging names, but I know people you speak of ;)

Smaller? Nah, it’s huge... lemme find good pic for ya.

That’s my girl goofing around beneath the Big Cat 👇🏼

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If steem will be left to dust, then it might be a very good thing to some. A simple math may be a holy grail too :)

are you talking about the reward curve algo?

OMG, this is hilarious 🙄🙄🙄. your sense of humour 👌👌...

Let it be....let it bee.... Most of us frustrated about steemit platform which getting worse, but do not worry this platform still beta version. Just let playing well in this platform soon the bright and shining era will come for this platform. :)

Love your snarky sarcasm! 💙 I think there is a message here!

Will this new platform allow bots and vote selling? If these are not possible it sounds great.

I wanna be the drummer back up vocalist for the STEEMBIRDS!!!

Remember all the shilling for Synero a few years ago? Nothing came of it.

Busy.org is obviously not including the discussion threads when saying this is a 3 minute read. As a Plankton I am glad people are talking about this topic on a non-yelling-at-each-other way. And the humor was excellent too. Thanks @brianphobos @dj123 @kevinwong

harvhat

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

lol yeah humor helps, @kevinwong did an excellent parody satire piece here!

if you like the laughs go check out this tag, it's full of funny shitz #comedyopenmic

and then come join us, the average upvote for this tag is now like $4! a some are even $15 - $70 no kidding, and not just upvotes, new followers, Steem and SBD to be won, and most important glory!

all untalented are welcome....oh did I mentioned that it's a guaranteed upvote from a community delegated account with 40,000+ SP for ALL original submission, matters not if it's just a fun effort.....but *must be original!

I share your optimism at the expense of a better world! To be honest, I'm sad from your words about the selfishness of our platfoma and you are absolutely right! I will wait for updates from you! Thank you @kevinwong

Well from the beginning of the post, I was looking for that place where you'd say, oh shit I was just joking, but I didn't find it lol, I guess I ha very an inner shit I was to channel out too hahsh, I love this well the platforms you are talking is already ringing,
I laugh though

That was dumb.
But I agree. Steemit kinda sucks.

I can not wait to hear this news @kevinwong, this media STEEM has made some communities fighting and there is no equality, and it is great to have me find a true knight on a great social media platform, I will continue to wait for this great news. . I can not wait ...

As someone with rep "59" it is high time you start reading steemit posts before commenting. Go on i promise it wont bite.

Thanks for such a wonderful reply to @abunagaya.

Who needs a community? I personally love writing and putting effort in to posts on Steemit that will never get read. lol

SMH, thanks for the post. I am still waiting for that sweet "blockchain based" social network - Steemit has a great idea, but the execution is lacking and we all are feeling it. Trust me... It's really sad how all these really crappy posts are making $300-400 but then someones quality post can make $0.01 ... I think we all are tired of seeing this:

better than medium.com

do you really think so?

Because its my believe that steem is the best one

Well, steem really had a promising profiting basis for us all, until some really selfish humans decided to seize the opportunity to enrich their pockets alone!

It is even worst down here in Nigeria where a very selected few make groups for themselves, and bluff others who are still trying effortlessly to grow.

The few whales down here even read posts of minnows and refuse to let their votes out!

Really and truely, i see steemit crashing sooner than when expected, because this was supposed to be a team_work!

Let me in on the new platform as soon as possible.

I will miss my steemit though!

Interesting article, thanks for sharing. I've smashed the upvote button for you!

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This great funny, I appreciate your cryptocurrency news sharing....
Upvote and resteemit

I think this is a platform that loves peace, if you think just make money here then you will not feel peaceful, but look for friends then you will be happy:)

Uptill that i thought what the hell i am doing on steemit but then the bombshell droped... Long live steem...

  ·  7 years ago 

Roflmao bro, nice try, your title bait really got me here lol

Sounds like you have joined a cult and they offer cryptocurrency! It was only about time they started to offer free cryptocurrency. I’m not sure why I have not thought of this sooner why I could have far more time traveling cats around if I just offer them some coins. Explains them not having a website, it being the Holy Grail, and that everyone is happy. I wonder what methods they use to extract the brain power to get to the moon!

is it true or fun???

Oh nice... Are mannequins welcome?!?! Yeah... I need a new place, these humans here in Steemit are strange!!!
Big hug
Steemitri The Mannequin

SMT or SocialX?

Like seriously?
You got me there.

Ummm...

You lost me Kev!

(Went Right Over My Head)

may i follow you @kevinwong

I was asking my self while reading where is the white paper you are asking if I have read.
That was quite engaging and a good joke to read.

I want to hear this news early @kevinwong
we need justice hahah

Wow, reading some lines, it felt like your somehow promoting some big ICO stuff of a big leading social media company in any asian country, ready to run with millions of dollars in crypto currencies

That's like Ohhh mY gawwddd :D hahah that's way cool :D

My genuine thoughts on Steemit, its potential and its future as a Decentralised Social Media

worth to look at it. looks like now everything is moving towards decentralize from social to currency. lets see what futures brings

Steemit Only name is enough so what people think and want is only steemit

Lol.... Interesting post. Very difficult for new entrants like myself. The elites just focus on making money for themselves.

Wow...it sounds like it will be a awesome community, of course until start registering on it and they introduce bots too.

I already knew, nothing better than Steemit LOL I saw post category LOL 😋

Wow, those devs are total geniuses, and I'm guessing they have access to a Delorean if they can solve all the seen and unforeseen problems before it's even launched. Steemit is such rubbish. Why am I still here?

Would be nice to see something besides here, with more stability especially.. As it seems all about cash on here , plus the things you've stated. Only been on here since last july, and seen it fall quite sharp..

Congratulations @kevinwong!
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Hillo myan es dis a prank?

I read the above article twice and found an attitude of optimism as well as pessimism. Optimistic about the white cup that will soon be gliding in the near future. I want to be part of it, a new platform that not only talks about money, but also ethics. I waited patiently to get on board the same ship.

However, I still hope Steem also has a bright of the future. That there are some bastards here, there are witnesses who sell votes, it's not Steem's fault. Hopefully people like no place in the holy cup later @kevinwong.

I think the saints must stay in Steem to improve things.