Don't vote for me (support a redfish instead)
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Steem is no longer decentralised and may steal your funds. Use Hive instead.
View this post on Hive: Don't vote for me (support a redfish instead)
Steem is no longer decentralised and may steal your funds. Use Hive instead.
True words and a very, very good posts.
With a good/better distribution steem will attract more people using it and the community base can grow.
Furthermore to get some votes - also without getting much money - is encouraging
This is so heartwarming
The reasons I continue to run up that hill
I am a nobody here in terms of SP
But just to let you know I do try and upvote the small guys and really cannot remember the last time I upvoted myself
I remember when I started and I had nothing
If it wasn’t for the generous, kind and far sighted ......
We all start somewhere. Keep working at it, but have fun along the way
We all start somewhere.
Keep working at it, but have
Fun along the way
- steevc
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True that :)
I do like it here... I have met many decent folks, and some I now call friends :)
Excellent post sir, and hit the nail on the head.
I'm powering down after 2 years, because this place is fundamentally flawed.
When you look at all the interesting people that have come and gone, it saddens me.
Greed was built into code, and it was not by accident.
I'm powering down some ( I only have small amount), and I'll keep some - because while I think there is no future for steem(it) as a platform for social media earnings - as advertised - I do think the technology offers something of great value and - from a purely selfish perspective - I want to get a return for all the hours I've put into this place.
I thank the platform for giving me the confidence to write off platform.(something I've never really done, or thought too much about, before).
The positive message you offer is commendable, but,( in my opinion) is pissing into the wind.
The very best of luck with it, though!
No system will be perfect. They gave us freedom here and some are bound to abuse that. Steem is still paying me something and I think it still has potential. We each have to decide if it is worth our time as there are other priorities.
First of all, I've just recently added you to my auto-list. I did this because I want to reward your content, even in case I miss it. I still love manual curation, but auto-votes makes things a little bit easier.
That being said, I have started to think about certain aspects of greed/selfishness and peoples true beliefs and intentions with STEEM in general.
Let me explain some of it. You said this:
So, what I've started to think about, is why so many people are stacking STEEM like crazy people...? I obviously understand that more SP equals more money, especially if and when the price of STEEM goes up.
However, whales and orcas, usually the people who're talking about how much they care and believe in STEEM... They continue to rake in STEEM with investments and whatever, because they believe in STEEM. They believe that STEEM will go to the moon and that we will see prices of $10, $50 and even $100 per STEEM...
But, if you have 200K+ STEEM and/or 1 or 2 million... Do you really need more, if you truly believe that the price will go up?
If you have 200,000 STEEM and the price goes up to $10. You'll have $2 million USD. $100 per STEEM and you'll have $20 million USD...
Honestly speaking, I shouldn't say that I've started to doubt these users real intentions and beliefs, but it sure has made me somewhat skeptical.
200,000 STEEM is just an example though. Say 500K instead. It doesn't really matter... I personally, believe in STEEM, but I cannot afford to invest thousands of dollars. I am in a position where I will need to cash out in the coming months... But people who never cash out and only power up... Do they really need to make as much as possible from their 200K+ STEEM stake they have today, if they truly believe that STEEM will moon?
Sounds like greed to me, and I will never allow greed to control me or my actions. I find it disgusting.
How about an update that makes anyone above 250K SP (or whatever) lose 10% of their stake monthly if they don't spread their wealth? -Should give us a tremendous growth in general. :D
I know some people invested many thousands when the Steem price was much higher and so they are operating at a loss for now. The acquisition of wealth is an end in itself for some, but it does not particularly interest me. My Steem was worth almost $100k at one point, but as it fell I was not that upset as I made it all here and so did not actually lose anything.
I think there are some crypto coins where the value does fall if you hang onto them.
I am not against people making money, but we need to give back a bit if we want to see Steem succeed. For now it is touch and go.
That's a good point. An even better point, to me personally, is the fact that some people are trying to recover their losses so to speak. I totally understand that and didn't think about it when I wrote the comment.
I was basically just thinking that having 1 or 1.1 million STEEM wouldn't be such a big difference to me, if the price reached $100 USD. lol
I totally agree with you though, that we need to give back more. Did you see/watch @theycallmedan's post yesterday? About 50/50 rewards? I find it interesting. The comments brings a ton of value too.
I'm not entirely sold on the idea of 50/50 rewards, despite all the comments about how awesome it would be... But it sure sounds both interesting and promising. What do you think about it?
Obviously 50/50 is good for those with a lot of SP to curate with. I'm not convinced it is the answer.
I think 50/50 would be horrible and benefit the rich even more then the current systems. They will not stop selling votes, instead they will earn 50% curation on the votes they sell. It doesn't solve anything other then locking in more profits for those with massive amounts of SP.
Amazing post , im happy i "WASTED" my time by reading it, you wrote here about a thing im talking for over a year now, im happy to see im not alone!!
There are various people and groups trying to improve matters. I'm just one guy, but I have had great support on this so far and I'm trying to keep it going.
That's one immense truth, I wish I had more time to reactivate @cyclefeed to go back into distributing rewards to smaller users. Unfortunatelly during the 'crazy' most of them disappeared.
Loved your post and resteemed for more visibility
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Cheers. I see you do not have many followers yet, so you could add more value with a comment saying why you like it
Well!!! Number of followers is not material when we have quality followers first thing, and secondly commenting what I like is really subject line.
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Sorry. Just noticed you are fairly new here and I do get people fishing for votes
It's ok Sir.... I m a surely newbie and really impressed with your subject line. And same way I want to tell you "Don't upvote me instead support a good content only ..." ;)
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I have resteem this post, I implore everyone to do so till it gets to the right audience. I know despite the truth being dish out many will refuse to help and the like, it's your steem power do it how you like but if you can't be part of someone success story never been a reason why they cry.
I could feel the sincerity and passion put in creating this post. How i wish my dreams on steemit could come to reality so I can join forces together and make here a better place.
I have seen many retire from their works to give steemit their 100% attention because they want to earn she after the bear market everything becomes devastating for them due to the fact that post payout could not cover for their bills. The mindset of many is to become super rich through this platform forgetting that many also depends on it to earn a little.
I have seen over time that those who need the earning most earn little while those who need less earn more because of their sp they hold.
Am happy, I have benefited from you in the 250 minnows league by @paulag project, it has been a great privileged. Many life depends on this platform to earn daily substances. Thanks
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I wish I could help more people, but I'm still a fairly small fish really. As I have said I am not relying on what I make here and I don't want a 'Lambo'. I want to see Steem achieve what it was intended for and I don't believe that was just to enrich a few as some people think.
That's what I was saying. Those who wanted to help and make the platform achieve it aim are restraint with lots of challenges beyond their capacity but those who have other plans as for selfish purpose have more than enough at their disposal. I call it irony of life and bone of contention
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I am not going to reset my autovote on you. You are doing really a good job here, instead I would ask you which redfish I should support now 😉
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There are some listed on this post who need a last push to minnowhood. I've also been including some in my #FollowFriday posts. I'm sure some of the Running Project community could do with this sort of support too. Let me know of any you have noticed.
What you do here @steevc, is important because you are setting a very visible example for others to follow... and you do so from a perspective of not just focusing "on the money."
I left you a token upvote simply as appreciation and because I believe in the idea of reciprocity... something for something. For the most part, though, my votes tend to go to small accounts that are actively engaging.
=^..^=
Thanks. Some people think it's all about greed here, but responses like this give me hope