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RE: Falling out of love with Steemit - End of a love story.
Unfortunately, @morningtundra, you're spot on in your dissection of the Steemit platform. "Proof of Brain" hasn't been working well on Steemit. Upvotes are not necessarily awarded to top content, and bad content can consistently get higher rewards if written by someone with higher SP. There are no incentives for curation and rewarding better content, because of the way the system is built (you get a higher yield from running an upvote bot). Good and smart authors realise this very quickly and either leave or lower the quality of their posts.
Steemit says it wants to be Medium, except better. But it's built to be like Facebook, except with the greedy, ugly side of human nature brought out for all to see.
Thanks, a very eloquent description...
I agree that the utility and use case for Steemit is novel and currently unique. Unfortunately Human Nature will sink as low as the current design allow.
After 3 months I get no sense that Steem.io is serious about moving the platform forward at a pace that will close the gap with competitors like Medium.com
While engaging the community for development priorities is good, there's a distinct lack of overall and long term vision. It feels like the road map is meandering along aimlessly.
I agree. Although new to Steemit I noticed my longer researched posts get no special attention. What is the point? Already I have posted lower quality posts to save time. It seems Steemit has become about Steemit itself and other cryptos. Looking into an infinitely reflecting mirror on mirror.