I can get behind that. I have no problem with spammers and shitty authors making pennies. But, I have a massive problem with excellent content not getting deserving rewards.
I know that the lifetime of posts right now, in terms of visibility, is all but evanescent in the grand scheme of things. But, in the future, there may be entirely new tools for exploring the Steem blockchain, and all of that amazing content will be revived for a new generation to consume.
Clearly people who are filling the blockchain up with crap deserve no rewards. But was the whales' job not supposed to be, at least until there was a fair distribution and others could do it, to reward great content that is being added to the blockchain? I know it certainly wasn't their job to ransom the rewards pool..
Other than my videos that I have been putting some effort into, even I have started to get lazy with the presentation of my posts recently. Because, why work hard? I already know what it's going to earn, and it isn't worth going to the effort to make my post look amazing. How many others share this sentiment? And how long before the block chain becomes 99% horse shit?
Put simply, excellent content needs to be getting rewarded, to incentivize the continued production of excellent content. What is happening now is, people are coming to the realisation that it isn't about creating good content, and so soon there won't be any.
But perhaps that is the point. Perhaps the goal is to end up with something more akin to facebook. Memes and slutty selfies. If that's the case, then I wish someone would just tell me so I can fuck off right now.
Name a successful website with millions of users based on quality content.
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Though I am sure there are some out there, that is a pointless request. We are talking about Steemit, not anything else. We were told this was different, the first of its kind, better. So, why is it surprising that many of would expect more from what we got from the places we left to come here?
Edit: In case you respond while I am gone, I will be afk for an hour or so. But, you raise some interesting points and I will be happy to continue the discussion when I return if you'd like to.
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Okay, I agree it is a pointless request. I do that sometimes, what I meant to say, is there is no business model that I am aware of that holds much success that is based on Quality Content.
It is my belief that the way this will grow is by collecting enough eyes, we can not keep the investors from buying steem and using the platform to advertise by giving away free things or blogging about their products.
So, I am happy to have traffic, but I do agree we have to keep it manageable. Great conversation!
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