This post is almost a year old
It started as a reply to my friend Asher in steemit, The haejin effect
I just found it today and wanted to give it a new life, to remember the dreamer i used to be.
When i first joined I didn't understood much, but definitively the rules where different, selling a vote was a mortal sin, there where higher standards and a zealous community about quality content and post frequency and the such.
I loved the place as it promised meritocracy and excellency.
Soon i discovered that all that didn't really matter, what mattered was the kind of network you had.
I used to explain that Steem was a technological tool to build human networks.
I believed strongly in the economics of generosity, in that in here; giving was what made you received.
Hell I even met a bunch of people i now dare to call friends that shared these views, and we used to dream together of how this was a game changer, and that we were part of the shaping of a new financial and economical paradigm based on principles (You know that stuff that makes you unable to make real money in the real world).
I refused to use bid-bots for a really long while, I kept building my small projects based on dreams.
Slowly the poles shifted, I was stuck on 48 REP while people with just one or two months was hitting the 60's already.
The organic votes stopped coming, I never made much before but i would hit the odd 30$'s once in a while and I found that normal, but then that also stopped.
One day I realized in our language there was a flood of spam... Being a witness I saw the chain double its size in a matter of weeks...
I lifted my head from the project i was working in and realized Memes had arrived, apps to bring instagram into steemit, I learnt about comment miners doing forensics for Patrice, I saw meme miners... Then the serious break of the peg... All this while there was this Haejin chatter around.
I think we have been manipulated with it as a smoke screen to hide the real problem this blockchain has.
Poor management and poor decisions made by the big stake holders who support blindly anyone able to make a webpage, without any consideration of its potential implications or with out proper follow up or guidance on the responsible use of the block-chain as a ressource and keep forgetting the MySpace effect: where Poor social management of a social network leads to its doom.
- What are we doing to improve user retention?
- What are we doing as a collective to remove the burden and responsability from steemit inc to maintain and provide an interface, a better UX/UI and proper API nodes that warranty the scalability of the chain.
- What capital is supporting efforts for user education and guidance?
- Who can really say they care and support?
Today I have lost most of the high hopes I had when I found this place, what i can say...
But what I'll never loose is the great experience I had finding people that thinks like me...
My post rewards are rarely huge!
But my personal rewards are priceless...
As i have had proof I am not a misfit, that there are others that share my views and we get to have rich discussions...
That in the end ...Is what really matters!
My Friend @nnnarvaez
Being a dreamer with hopes is not bad, and sharing that dream with a friend is much better.
You are right when you talk about the large number of friends who share the same ideals and are and are usually so real and within our individual values.
They are complemented with very good discussions of solution to problems, it is good that you have dusted off this publication in a natural way is to remember all the growth you have on the platform.
Example when I grow up I want to be like you, also to witness this wonderful life opportunity that presents a very real parallel life sharing with new friends and enjoying something that identifies us and is doing something we like.
Never any publication of mine has passed $ 30, sometimes I see how some publications with only one photo arrives and that amount passes.
There are a few cases that I have used the bid-bots but I have a good time that I do not, it's because I forget to do it, but it also happens because it does not attract my attention, and I honestly have not studied its operation and how is the performance of them.
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Hello @nnnarvaez Nathan, how are you friend?
Although I always give a tour of your blog, this time I do it on the recommendation of my friend @ crypto.piotr.
When I started at steemit a short time ago, I had the opportunity to receive some valuable initial instructions:
In short, avoid hurt feelings.
Tied to ideals, he saw the purchase of votes as a "sin".
Then, over time you find out about things ...
It's like taking the Red Pill from Matrix .
But personally, I'm not disappointed in the community. On the contrary I have learned to grow inside her. But we must always have the support of some valuable friend.
I would like very much to feel that the Creators / Founders / Owners of Steemit do more for the platform. I do not want it to be transformed into something different.
As for the apologia with MySpace, I pray the Gods that nothing similar will happen. If the owners are thinking only of money, we could fall into the wrong hands.
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OMG! You're BATMAN!
A few days ago a friend commented to me that you are "El papá de los helados" something like "The Big Dog" in programming and blockchain. And from what I saw on your Steemit blog, he was right.
I had not heard about that effect either, but I agree a lot with what you say in the post. And as an example, I tell you something that happened to me not long ago.
I wanted to pass some STEEMs from my BITTREX account, but it generated an error, the address has not been announced/funded on the block chain (chinesse to me), which unfortunately the Bittrex support department could not solve (And I tell you They are very good solving any problem); so they told me to look for the support department of Steemit.
They has to be joking, right?
Previously I had done many STEEM transactions from my Bittrex account.
So, I never found any kind of support within Steemit, in fact, there were many posts indicating the same thing. I went into steemit-chat, but I got tired of waiting and they were not very helpful either. I appreciated their concern. In the end, I simply exchanged the STEEM to DOGECOIN and then I used Blocktrade.us
However, Steemit, besides being a means of support for me, is an exciting world to meet people and groups where you can learn many things. I think and hope this will evolve.
That phrase is excellent! I share your opinion too
BTW, I came here through my dear friend @crypto.piotr
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