What is happening to SteemIt?

When I first joined SteemIt back in 2016, I found a vibrant community of passionate cryptocurrency investors, bloggers, content writers, and all sorts of other nice people. I really enjoyed the community and it incentivized me to write good quality posts and upvote on other quality posts I saw. This was what Steemit was supposed to be; it was the true nature of it. And we all loved it.

Now it has changed. Not drastically, but slowly and surely. The posts getting the most rewards are those which voters simply vote on because they'll get nice curation rewards. Most voters don't care about quality anymore. Most post writers also don't. It's all about the money.
Sure, there are a few good people out there who do make a lot of money on SteemIt while trying their best to make quality posts, but these are in the minority and even if they stopped caring about quality they'd still make a lot of money.

What does this mean for new up and coming writers? People keep saying "interact with your community", but what community is there if no one pays attention to your posts? It is impossible for new members to get anywhere just by writing quality posts.

How can we fix this? To be honest, there's no fix-it-all plan for this. It's in the human nature to be greedy and want money. What we can do is raise awareness of this and convince people to look at the new posts and actually take the time to pick out one which has nearly no votes after a few minutes and read it. If they can see that the post is quality stuff, upvote it. Of course, it'll be hard to convince most people to let go of their easy money-making ways and actually care about other people. But that's what I hope we can do, at least to some people...

thanks for reminding quality over quantity but this needs time for some new users to get used to the site.

Yeah, quality over quantity is key here before SteemIt completely descends into chaos.

Looks like that "vibrant community" ran away after they milked the cow and the rewards started to decline.
To me (as a newbie) it looks like nothing has changed, it was always all about the money. That people start to look more after themselves and their earnings after massive decline in earnings is only natural.

There was an interesting contest going around where you can vote for someone else's post which you thought was the most undervalued. I thought it was at least a good idea for a contest and a good step in the right direction towards solving that challenge.

Yes, contests like that do much to raise awareness and bring attention to this issue. We definitely need more of them.

since hf-19 update people cares all about the money...

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@dhumphrey thank you for sharing your opinion.
I am a newbie on Steemit and I recognize problems that you have mentioned.
But, I believe that quality will win. I believe that if I publish great content and try to explain, inform, help and ad value to posts. Hope that members will award me by upvoting and following.
Never forget, only if you believe, the miracles can happen.

Amazing i love it, dont forget view my post , now i follow you, follow me back thanks bady