Been on steem for a week and I've realized it sucks...
I'm not really interested in earning "steem" or "steem dollars". I came from the bitshares community (the community that Dan Larimer, creator of steem, came from). Many of the "whales" here are bitshares investors or developers who started early here. I try to post useful content or bugs and errors I find, but it's covered up within seconds with garbage posts.
This place is a giant circle jerk. A race to upvote or comment on every post with a chick in it. Many of the comments I see are not relevant, or are just a GIF with a one word like "cool" or "Awesome!".
Right now I think there is massive amounts of manipulation, both in content curation and market cap. Steem was designed from the very begining to show a large, yet extremely illiquid, market cap. Add in some hot girls, and who can resist money and women. I don't think Dan realized that this place would be inundated with garbage...
As we see now the bubble in steem is popping. We'll see how many people are still hanging around here as the market cap keeps falling.
I think we're having ups and downs. I haven't been around for a long time either but I see the junk piling up now more than last week for ex. but probably less than next week.
I also think that we're seeing strong trends on content curation, people down-voting bots, nsfw posts that don't have that as the primary tag. Maybe this crowd is now smaller than the one voting for boobs and pot (which I don't have anything against but should be in their own place not on the steemit tag page).
There's also the whales. Some of them try to keep things tight but more need to get involved. If whales downvote posts on some clearly transparent established rules (bots, wrong tag, lottery, etc.) then those people would be discouraged to post more and more.
The community is waking up. Now it's a steemrush, everyone wants money, but I think soon, real content seekers will prevail.
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Just look this post : https://steemit.com/video/@masteryoda/360-or-nasa-s-curiosity-mars-rover-at-namib-dune
Fucking manipulated site
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