Right. Opinions are dangerous, you knew that? And In Steemit opinions are to be hushed.
I have lately expressed clearly my opinion on the social experiment called Steemit. Yes, I refuse to call it a platform, it's too noble of a term. The experiment is about to fail due to good old greed.
Enter @transparencybot
I like the idea of that bot. Simple and informative for both those who use bidbots and those who don't
And all is good then? Nope.
I have for almost 24 hours now upvoted the poor bot that is constantly flagged. This time not by fyrstikken, but by Bernie sanders.
The retaliation is evident:
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Yes, that is my account taking 11 flags in a row.
Tired
Exhausted vote power is the immediate result. Longer term, I think spending time on a broken system is not a priority.
The bloodletting of "steemians" can continue without my participation if the fucking system can't be mended.
Because there won't be any left with the fucking mafia running the show. Decentralized my ass! It almost as centrally powered as North Korea.
Forget your wet dreams
Steemit is going nowhere except south with the abuse of power at play and feeding the abusers.
Invisible @ned can promise invisible smt tokens so and so long, the token I'm interested in is heading for sub 50 cent. I have seen countless of my peers powering down and moving on. Which is a shame, some of them were really cool.
I had not planned on moving on so soon. But the flag abusing bot might change my mind. So does witnesses that resort to mafia tactics.
It's a shame. I have got to learn more about my favorite steemers @erikaflynn, @dana-varahi, @riskdebonair, @abh12345 and plenty more. It's not your fault. It's the fucking greedy bastards that run the shitshow.
Thank you for the heartfelt post. I feel your pain, believe me.
That is what keeps me going, just trying to get the word out, so someone with a little power will finally say enough is enough!
Knowing this platform is being sucked dry by parasitic bidbots and even worse, tyrants and bullies that force their will upon everyone by mafia style tactics that should utterly disgust every sane person out there, there must be change coming, yet it is depressing that each day this ugly truth is just ignored ...
Luckily there are some witnesses like @lukestokes that are willing to look honestly at this issue, but we truly need others. Please take a look:
@gtg, @jesta, @timcliff, @roelandp, @curie, @beanz -- Look what happens when someone just raises their opinion against these tyrants!
All those using @burnpost could be working to cure this ill much more directly.
Is this all that is left for Steemit?
> To me it seems beyond repair to be honest.
Do you have any proactive, productive suggestion to bring to the table?
The distribution problem may be beyond repair. I'm not sure. Maybe SMTs and their Oracles will bring some competition. Maybe EOS will bring competition. I don't know. I do know that throwing our hands up in the air and saying, "Welp, it's hopelessly broke" will never get it fixed unless we first recognize what is broken and then follow it up with what we thing a good fix is. I've asked @berniesanders to define spam in witness-social steem chat and he hasn't replied yet. I think @transparencybot is an interesting service that I, personally, would like to support as I don't think bit bots fit with the intent of "proof of brain," and I personally think there's value in knowing which posts were organically voted for and which posts were bitbotted up by the author of the post.
If @transparencybot is spamming and not providing value, I'll remove my delegation for it. If on the other hand it does provide value, I'll keep it and ask those who disagree to explain why.
Luke,
Thanks for the reply. I truly believe one if not the most significant problems on this website is uncontrolled bullying by a few very large stake holders. The retention rate is dismal, all but the most hardened souls or perhaps completely oblivious can or do stay. And of course those that find a angle to profit are likely to the last to leave, fighting it out for the last piece of ...
Nothing wrong with profit, except when it is at the full expense of others.
Proof of brain is failing because:
* Bidbots can bring any article to the top, destroying our reputation for all outsiders.
* Bulling prevents any constructive feedback. Making sure the status quo is not altered.
If a few larger players do not come together soon and address these issues, Steem will go back to its .09 where it started its huge run up. Huge investments will be lost.
What can be done.
Don't sit by and allow obvious bullying and nefarious collisions to remain. Get a pack and do some down voting or up vote those who get downvoted for simply raising an opinion or questing the ugly truths.
In other words, get a "Council" formed that works to inject a little fairness back into the system. A block of even 10 larger stake holders could make a power difference that would certainly catch on to grow to hundreds. Voting could be put in place of some sort, based on 1 vote one (real account).
There are many solutions, it is not to late, but it really is time to start.
