How is there still this much abuse on the site?
So, I started off on steemit around 7 months ago, made a decent amount of posts, but since I never caught a ''whale'', they never really got much attention, and seeing that shitposts made by haejin and other ''analysts'' get hundreds, even thousands of dollars per post, made me quit the site for a while, hoping that something would have changed when I came back.
Haejins money raking ^
So here we are 5 months later and steemit is still in a hole, full of shitposts, spammers and self-upvoters, nothing has changed, and I believe that nothing will ever change. Small posters, that post good, quality content will rarely ever get spotted and mostly will receive $0.03-$2 per post, while spammers like Haejin will receive upwards of $100 per post, since they were on the site first and are just using their steem to boost their posts, so that they get upvoted, and they just rake in the rewards.
Pretty much the last effort from bernie ^
The fact that berniesanders actually tried to do something about it, was my last hope, but now that even he has given up, I truly think that the site is finished and won't continue growing, likely, even start losing steemians.
I don't believe that I will return to the site, as it is way too hard to grow, unless you invest thousands upon thousands of dollars into steem and your posts often get burried under spam. Anyways, hope you have a nice day and stay safe!
Steemit is an interesting experiment... having a monetary incentive has advantages but also many disadvantages! This is only one example, after all, when your actions in the platform can lead to actual payoffs, how honest will you be? Will you upvote content that you like and/or you think actually benefits the community... or aim for some whale no matter how much you dislike the post just for a curation reward? Etc. etc. And I'm not sure there's much the platform can do without curtailing its other big feature, "freedom."
Another thing I have noticed lately is whenever I post, I have like two dozen "people" who immediately subscribe to me all at once. Those have to be bots pursuing active users or something like that I assume.
Also I think that if you are only here to make a quick buck, that's not really going to work out. Acquiring a following of actual people is a slow process, not gonna happen overnight. Unless you have a lot of money to throw at your posts for paid promotions and increasing the value of your selfvotes I suppose.
@dukmaster you were flagged by a worthless gang of trolls, so, I gave you an upvote to counteract it! Enjoy!!
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