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RE: There is a "Steemit Culture Clash" going on right now. Is it time for tough love?
Maybe there could be different classes of posts so the ones who wanted to make short comments only, can do so without penalty? I have done something like that before to try and be polite to all the people I was following. Before I knew that a lot of people on here want longer, more substantiated posts I was thinking this was like facebook etc so I tried to like and comment on every post that I had time to. The way I see it you want as many people to come and stay here as possible so flagging them is not the best answer. Cant we be kind and encourage proper behavior instead of making negative rules? I hate rules laws and regulations...
Take a look at this guys comments so you understand what I'm talking about: https://steemit.com/@abdouni92/comments
That's theft right there. That's someone who doesn't care about this platform (yet) and who is trying to steal.
I'm sure you like rules against stealing. :)
And if you don't see it as theft, that's ok, I do!
So, I'm not trying to create new rules or regulations, just trying to enforce the oldest rules known to mankind, that you shouldn't steal, etc.
When I click the link it takes me to someone saying thank you to everyone and I don't think that she is stealing intentionally, I think she is just trying to be polite. Like I said, for whatever reason when I came here I thought that my "job" was to build a community like the other social networking sites and by doing so, I supported steemit and got paid. She will never get paid much by posting things like that so what does it hurt? I am really not arguing here I just value your opinion.
You don't understand because you've never hired people over the internet before and you haven't seen how much a system can be manipulated and gamed in order to extract money from it. I've seen it all on Upwork, how they apply for jobs they haven't read, how they say they have the skills when they don't, how they do everything a person would never do just in order to keep a profile long enough to make a few bucks. And when that profile has been deleted, just create another one, or five, and do it all over again.
I've seen Upwork change their polices over and over again to deal with the fraud and the theft that is rampant on their sites and coming from these very same countries..
This person is doing nothing but fishing for money.
It takes absolutely no effort at all to make these comments and these comments could be given to anyone. But people are giving money to people for leaving these comments, so that is why they are making them. No other reason.
You ASSUME this person is being nice because you're a nice person and you don't know any better.
There is only so much money in the rewards pool each day. What this person is doing is taking money from someone else who actually put effort into making a comment or an article. Imagine someone being paid to make these comments to make $5 an hour while the boss pays $2. That is what is probably going on here.
Now imagine this times 1000 people - that would be $5K per hour hour of the awards pool and stolen from real uses. I'm not saying it is too that level yet but even if it is $1K per hour it's too much.
I could go much more into it but I'm limited on time. You are welcome to disagree but I say you just don't have the experience in seeing this type of spam before so you don't know better.
These people are thieves.
Ok Trevor. I guess I am still just having a hard time figuring out what this place is or is not supposed to be. (I watched the video again and it really makes it sound like more than just a place for blogger/vloggers.) Maybe someday I will get it but if I respond to someone with a short comment, I am trying to be encouraging and polite. I am not just "gaming the system" and I don't have all day to read and respond to all the people I follow/follow me. Be blessed buddy...
I looked at your comment section and it looks nothing at all like the one I gave as an example. There is zero comparison. I'm not sure why you're not seeing that and not seeing what I'm talking about, but my experience tells me what is going on here.
Anyway, you'll be happy to know it looks like it's dying down so I'm just going to let it go and not worry about it. It will work itself out. I just got nervous the same problems I saw UpWork.com have were going to happen here.