I was doing fine in my little corner... (rant)

...thinking I'll follow my path here with steem which will eventually lead somewhere.

Yesterday sort of shook my resolve in a way.

I like watching @exyle's daily videos, and yesterday he explained the difference between proof-of-work, proof-of-stake and proof-of-brain in his video, and I think anyone can understand that explanation.

Steem blockchain is thought out as a proof-of-brain environment, in which one creates or curates content and gets rewarded based on the appreciation of the other steemians.

I didn't know but learned from the video, that there are people who treat their activity on steemit or other apps they use as proof-of-work, or mining. How do they do that? Create an irrelevant post, then make 10 comments to it and upvote them all at 100%, that's it, they are done for the day!

This is just one way in which the 'proof-of-brain' reward system is abused. I'm not going to list them all here (those which I already know about), but if this grows it will create a toxic environment for legitimate content creators and curators.

Is this where we are going with steem? Is this proof-of-brain? In this case, I want no part of it.

If there are enough people who think proof-of-brain means something else, this should be dealt with, urgently!

Despite having such a small and new account, I will start flagging more! I certainly would prefer to upvote good comments and posts instead of doing sanitation work, but it needs to be done!