In the early days of SteemIt, I was sold on the idea that the SteemIt platform was an entry way into crypto, I thought it was a path for mainstream to be able to exchange money with other adults, without government interference. It wasn't about tax evasion. it wasn't about cheap Bitcoin it was about the ideals.
Yes the IRS knows crypto is here and they don't like it, are you really so surprised?
China may or may not be able to legally participate.. Well, okay
TDV has a right to what he wants to say, and the little bikini gal who loves hotels and pools is beautiful and if you are into such things you have a right to see it. (if you don't like it, you have the right to use your stake and downvote it) I think I have had EVERY opinion about voting bots, quality content, spam, scams and flags.
I am still here because I believe in my Freedom to say what I want, and your ability to flag it. I am here because I am interested in what you have to say...
You are free to mess up the blockchain with content OR spam or to add something real to the conversation. You can buy stake and build a bot to vote, pay a bot to vote or if you have the skills to build one, build one. You can then decide to use the tools available ... Or not.
If you want to hang around despite China, the IRS and anyone else who wants to tell you what you can say, and how to think, and what you are worth.. Carry on.
Iamin. I am in.
I still believe. If this site isn't it there will be another. I get annoyed, I get bored, I get frustrated... But, I want there to be a place and a time where people can say what they feel like saying. If we want to reward that with a vote we can. Maybe it means something financially... maybe not, but we have a place to be who we are and say what we want to say... Carry on
I might complain and bellyache here and there, but I have no plans to leave. And I shall continue to cast my vote (or not, or flag) for content I like, most likely created by an actual HUMAN, and that I feel adds to the likelihood of there still being a Steemit here some months/years down the road.
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sounds about right.
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This is exactly it. We better not waste steemit, I've got a lot of people I wanna introduce to this.
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well said.
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It's not scary @whatsup, the main thing is all cultural. At the expense of bots and so on, I agree with you, because freedom is also dear to me!
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Yah steemit is the ultimate freedom to express yourself. Great.
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I don't know how it was here in the beginning. There is loads of spam and the bots are there, but such things are inevitable. This actually means it gets picked up. The important decision now is how to handle this. The next step is enormous and hard, but if Steemit can handle the bots and the spam, it is going to be a moneymaker.
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@whatsup,
You are absolutely correct! In this platform I feel freedom :D Yeah no matter someone wish to flag my comments or posts! I don't care. And I won't flag others, coz I don't care! But sometimes spams going on!
Yeah without reading the full story or the post and writing something like "Nice post, follow me" and now a days I could see a new trend of "SELF UPVOTING" in the comment section to come to the top of the list. Actually I feel sick by seen upvotes on own posts!
Steemit actually supporting my financial freedom! Why I want to say lies! Rally this is supporting my financial freedom! But I think I need to earn it by working hard.
I am respecting the way you think and really appreciate the way you doing!
Thank you very much for this valuable discussion! Really appreciate your effort!
Cheers~
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Amen.. not going anywhere either.
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AGREE WITH YOU . WE CAN TALK FREELY .WE CAN EXPRESS OURSELF. THANK YOU FOR THE POST @whatsup
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the response is very amazing and very good, I am inspired what you discuss, sabab I like the things that I do personally have nothing to do with the government, I like the way steemit work, although now I am still a beginner here but I feel still the spirit because here has nothing to do with working under the command of others, your posting is very useful for me, thanks for sharing
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Thanks for your update.@whatsup.
I do not know about steem in the early days. But now there's a lot of highs. It's a very good thing.But how do you get the money from voting? financial detail is great. it is valuable information.
have nice day.
100% like and resteem
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Amen to that brother. If you are solely here for the money IRS and China issues will bother you a lot, but if you here to find a place to write, say, and express your feelings and opinions than you are in the right place. You can say and write whatever you want.
As far of the spamming issues it is up to us users to downvote the bad content. As much as that is the job of developers so it is us the users because we grade the content with our voting and comments.
Great post, very intriguing. Full STEEM ahead brother for me. :)
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Exactly what I love about Steemit! We are free to post or not post. Upvote or downvote or neither. Spam or not. Say what ever we want. And so is everyone else. It's pretty frickin amazing!
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Well said. I'm fairly new to all of this, but I'm wondering as well if Steemit will be eventually overrun with spam and bots.
Every internet community will contain a large amount of worthless content, but only on Steemit (and possible future clones of it) can the users curate the content themselves. The only question that remains is whether or not Steemit will attract a userbase majority that truly cares about the content they see.
Either way, I'm going to be here because I'm curious to see what happens next.
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Freedom is what I love about Steemit!
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At this moment the platform is still in beta. I just registered and your post is the first one I accidentally saw. I agree with your ideas and thoughts. I agree with your ideas and thoughts regarding the Steemit and crypto-currency in general.
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I think the main problem of this social experiment in bots. They are in every post. They are everywhere. They don't get tired.
Bots can write 1000 comments "Wow! Nice post!" and at least 10 comments will be upvoted by inattentive users.
Bot-net admin receives a lot of money for SPAM.
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The phase we are at right now, it feels like that. If those of us who care stick around, there will be more..
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As my friend said recently, I'm not just a curator here, I'll leave my account to children with all the money...
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Children with money rarely last long....
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I'm sure if I leave my grandchildren 1 BTC, 15 ETH & 3000 SP (bought now) - they will be more happy than if I leave them just $20,000. :)
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I still feel that way, so CARRY ON.
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@whatsup - oh my goodness, ma'm the freedom of steemit gave me the freedom of left the fb. Now, I can earn, learn, enjoy, read, write & etc in a same platform. Love steemit, love your post too.
+W+ [UpVoted & ReSteemed]
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Everything will be fine. The future for Steemiti
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Congratulations @whatsup
MinnowsPower listed your post "If I upvoted your post, I read it..." as one of the top 20 posts of the day...!!!
The concept behind steemit, your perception about it nicely brought to steemians.
100% Upvoted by @MinnowsPower
MinnowsPower is not a bot, I am a Crowdfunding Hybrid
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Love the title. It's what got me to read your post. Although I was hoping the topic would go else where you did a great job. I do often wonder where the plateform will go and if users will continue to "cheat" the system. I've noticed that the ones that stick it out in the long run are quality people, so I'm not to concerned.
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I pretty much exited the social media thing about 3 yrs ago. Facebook became too big of an intrusion into my personal info it was nuts!!
Then I started looking into crysptos and found steemit. This is amazing. I work 50-60 hrs a week and have 2 kids. So I don't expect to make a bunch of $$. But that it not what it is about. It's about the freedom to express oneself, help other people with possible issues, and providing something useful to the community.
I'm getting tired of the bots and the upvote me I will upvote you. Follow me and I follow you. I just don't give them the time of day.
Great well written piece. I enjoy reading what I have to say. Keep up the good work and…STEEM ON!!
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I like your opinion ant free words . I think there is a lot ways how to earn crypto, and every method is time time for spam time for something special.. I think there is different money expression of earning.
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I'm glad someone like you actually said the truth Insteaf of just lying to us
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steemit is the ultimate freedom to express yourself.......nice post
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not leaving steemit either..
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There's actually nothing better than knowing somebody upvoted your post because they read it and enjoyed it.
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Hi Jeezze, I always enjoy your posts. I do not always agree with everything you say, but I value you sharing your experience and making your life better.
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I thought I was the only one that actually read anything on steemit. I believe quality content makes the platform succeed, but as an anarchist I believe everyone has the right to do as they please even if I don't agree with a lot of it. It's not perfect, but I believe it's something better than fiat. Pretty much anything is better than fiat in my opinion though. I appreciate the perspective. :)
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Hey @whatsup, I agree with pretty much everything you said and also agree that while there are lots of things I don't agree with going on I am hanging around because there are a lot of positives too but am not clear on what you mean here
Are you against the bots and paying for votes as well? If so, I'm in agreement with you here also but if you think it is something that people should make use of if they can I really don't believe this to be the case and must disagree. I would be in favour of a simplified system of creating and curating content manually for everyone with no ability to self vote. I am definitely in the decentralisation camp but the system on steemit is no different than the real world system in terms of unethical and immoral behaviour, perhaps even more so for how blatant and open it is for anyone wishing to investigate.
Nice post mate. Cheers!
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The voting bots are not the only issue, they allow users to upvote scam and spam, yes. The community tool for fighting spam is flags. If they waste their money on voting bots to be flagged for spam.. the behavior will stop.
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I am here because the community is positive and not just validated by money.
The rest of the internet seem to be validated by some form of narcissism just to look good, rather than helping. Never have I found a community where the people are diverse, kind and helpful.
That's why I am here.
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Adding good quality content to steemit makes it more powerful, just like you are doing.
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Steemit was the beginning of a decentralized social network. You say that this site may not be? You're right! But the idea now will never die.
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I agree. it is great post and update of steem history. nice to steem process.
thanks@whatsup
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I think in a year Steemit will find another way of monetization. It is necessary for the future to stop being like a financial pyramid. I think right after that, we expect exponential growth. Until that moment, we must guard Steemit against internal and external attacks.
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28 👀 68 ⬆️
I'm in both categories 😁
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Perfect... you are trying it all then?
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Trying it 'all' like @jerrybanfield ? Not quite!
I'm sticking around though, like a bad smell most of the time. I got some $.10 roses for you though :)
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lol, I've been noticing the smell around here recently also. lol
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do you have to, do you have to, do you have to let it lingerrrrrrrr
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Very well written I believe and agree with everything you
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Keep it 100. @whatsup
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Well that's true, I have every right to do what I wanna do...
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amigo #resteemia at your service
'Iamin' a new tag ;) steemit blessed our lives. nice post @whatsup
ReSteemia
'UpVote ReSteem Comment'
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That's nice post coz your post is helpful if anyone understand whatever others those don't understand your post.......
I like it @whatsup..........
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Kindly assist me to upvote and resteem https://steemit.com/bitcoins/@chuxlouis/the-rise-and-rise-of-bitcoins-and-cryptos-in-general-why-dont-you-key-in-now so we show the world that Bitcoins/cryptos are here to stay and increase, upward ever
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oh means you never read mine :( well no worries i will try my best ;p
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it is always steemit combine with the freedom. the thing is i regret that i did not hear about this one earlier. now i am only two months with this platform.
yes i agree with you @whatsup. some of them guys give flags to my comments and post as well. but i do not repeat the process. as you said we just want to feel the freedom in here.
not the revenge.
thanks for the brainstorm some idea;'s and great post my friend
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I am here to stay and have been working hard to share stories and blogs and I am sure i might be small now, but with hard work and positive thinking I will get more followers and people will read and reply to the comments.
Thanks for your honest and frank opinion.
@jackpot
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it is great post and update of steem history. nice to steem process.
///// thanks
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China's participation is certainly influential, but our ideals are great @whatsup!
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the platform is well enough for anyone and the way it is designed which is to say that is perfect and for freedom no better place can be other from this
and yes the title suits me as well ;)
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I do not follow too much people. I only those who are in my area of interest, we can talk on common topics and can share our feeling. I never use autovoting bots because that will kill the beauty of this platform. We have to vote according to the content. So First read it and then Steemit.
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