RE: Some concerns about steemit.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'm not sure how much I can say in regards to ned and dan robbing the platform.. I can see a reason to have more control at first in the beginning and it was my understanding they were going to be less and less involved and power down and such. If more is going on, I'm open to that.. But I don't know for sure so I wouldn't personally say they are robbing anyone as I don't know.. If I did know for sure, I would speak out about it.
In regards to haejin.. I think the issue is it's not his audience that is the problem but the one whale that continually votes for him, if it was just his followers it'd probably not be an issue at all, so it appears as if this one whale is just.. Rewarding him way too much.
Which is one reason why I mentioned in my OP that I think it's a much bigger problem than just him and that it's many of the top whales who get auto voted by whales for not so great content.. It makes some people who put a lot of work in and make less than a dollar on a post feel really jaded when someone else is getting like thousands for posting pics of their food and parties.
Also in regards to your point about no one doing anything remotely similar.. I'm not sure I agree? We have had numerous other social media trying similar things, I think steemit has just done it the best out of any of them. Yet.. The rate things are going I wouldn't be surprised if a competitor snuck up much quicker than I previously thought.
I feel like this could have and maybe still could be the next Facebook in a sense, don't take me too literal there, but the next big "social media" so to speak.. Though.. The way some things are going I'm definitely having my doubts now more than ever before. The'res such a great thing here, I hope they/we don't squander it.
And yeah.. Who knows.. Maybe it will just continue to grow even despite all of these things.. Maybe it's taken on a life of it's own now.. I guess time will tell for a lot of these things.
Thank you for the reply...
On a positive note, here is some info on how the "Robbers" are trying to fix their mess,
https://steemit.com/steem/@taskmaster4450/steem-is-not-steemit-71-m-steem-powered-down-major-marketing-push-by-the-other-apps
On a negative note, @aggroed directly speaks about the "Robbery" which is euphemistically referred to as Pre-Mining, which is a way of bypassing Securities Fraud, at the 22 minute mark in the following interview...
If you listen, @aggroed also goes on to explain that @haejin's big Whale is actually someone playing by the VERY RULES that @dan and @ned have been very explicit in explaining. @haejin's Whale is someone who played by the rules and INVESTED INTO THIS PLATFORM. The "Robbers" on the other hand summarily decided how big of a Stake to take for themselves out of the gate and invited some others to come along for the ride. This is how ALL of the early whales got their stake. @haejin's whale is being unfairly portrayed here if you ignore that fact.
I really don't care about all of this and I'm not really trying to make a STINC, but your article has a great deal that I agree with and I wanted to share my "OPINION" on the fact that Pre-Mining, though it's a good way to avoid the SEC and other regulators, was a DAMN DIRTY AND DESPICABLE way to start what should have been a SLAM DUNK success in crypto.
Of course the BIGGER problem here is that out of 1400 other crypto projects out there, not ONE of them is ready to replace Steem... Not a single ONE! That's pretty pathetic if you ask me.
Thanks for the article.. That really umm.. Brightens things a lot, that it's a lot more than just "steemit".. Puts things into more perspective I should say. But it is very positive, though in the end.. All that increased attention hopefully will bring the demand that more exchanges start using the tokens again. Cause, if they exchanges don't deal with steem, many will stop posting since many are just here for the money.
I think this place would still be around and there would be hardcore users who don't care about any of that and just wanna get away from centralized social media like Facebook.. Though.. I think most of us here would agree that we want steem to do well, and to be more widely used as well. And there do seem to be some valid concerns that unfortunately too many probably ignore cause they just wanna make money and aren't looking at it more longterm.
In regards to pre mining.. I'm not sure how I feel about it. I kinda feel like they should wipe it clean before the release to the public and we can all start over, but I doubt that will happen! So.. When is it fair? You're right.. Those early people really made a killing.
I think some of these people could do a lot to help everyone if the voluntarily just gave some back to some new promising upcoming steemians or even if they put it into programs like dtube and stuff like that, that would be great. Hopefully more of them do, though just from a quick glance.. A few of the worst abusers don't seem to care. They don't want to give back.. They want MORE AND MORE AND MORE.. And it's never enough for some people.. No matter how rich they get, they always need more.
Apoly if you forget the whales out the picture as that just is. Would love to know what happens when the steem runs out ? Can someone do a rough calculation and figure out when that event will occur and what that time will look like. Could they mint more or new coin or nothing and it's impact on users.