RE: New Lows, and a Late Night Reflection on What I am Doing Here
We’ve chatted about this a bit before; I feel like we have very similar motivations for being here and attitudes toward the financial rewards, or lack thereof 😅
I think the only thing that would make me leave for another platform would be if the level of spam/abuse/garbage posting increased dramatically. This environment of falling prices actually seems like it helps tamp down on this sort of thing: a welcome silver lining to STEEM <$0.80
I also like the idea that people who were only here to make a quick buck are leaving. I don’t want to share a platform with that crowd anyway, so good riddance I say!
I am not very heavily invested here, and I don’t have a very large wallet, so I have the luxury of participating without much skin in the game. I can see how a veteran of the platform could feel very differently about everything going on, and I can certainly appreciate that.
Yeah, I would agree with you on the spam/abuse thing. I have left other sites on account of that... somehow leaving those I left behind scratching their heads and going "But you can make MONEY here, why would you leave?"
I guess because I consider myself more than a song of one note.
I feel cautiously hopeful that a lot of the "get rich quick" schemers are folding up their tents and heading home, leaving behind content creators.
I'm not attached to the whole "quality content" issue, though, although I was (moreso) in the early days. These days I think more in terms of adding value with posts. Most people want to see stuff that interests them, not long detailed articles. Sure, some of those are good. But so is a lot of other stuff.