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RE: Round 10: Free Delegations for 4 Weeks + Upvotes
ned outright handcuffed, chastised minnows by turning this into the most anti-social platform on earth. he doesn't understand what it's like to NOT start with millions of steem. smh..
but i'm happy there's a few people who are willing to support each other. the dictator is strong but i hope this community can be stronger one day.
It's impossible to be social without around 100sp in my opinion. This isn't a massive investment if someone wanted to buy their way to this level, but to some people it's impossible. But more important is the fact why would a new person come here and run into all sorts of issues due to RC's and then say "hey I should invest money here". It's the exact opposite of what should happen. We need people to come, love it, and then invest.
you see it correctly. nobody will love it if you have to pay to comment/post. a new user won't give a shit about what an RC is. all they see is "you need to pay". ned is that clueless. but i feel like he's about to be ousted soon. people are fed up.
It's an elitist viewpoint of the world. It's very hard for those who have to understand those who don't. The people who have been here since the early days when Steem was being printed faster then money in Venezuela can't understand why new people have such a hard time building up SP. They assume it must be due to powering down or lack of effort because when they started it was truly easy.
But as someone that looks at a ton of accounts for newer steemians as I visit every entry into @pifc's curation contest each week and now with my SP giveaway I can say there are people making solid posts for weeks, even months without earning more then a couple steem. This is largely because those who have now monetize their SP very well with bid bots, leases, and other arrangements to be paid for their SP. They aren't out there helping new people get started.
This issue isn't a Ned issue alone. Don't forget the top 20 witnesses put HF20 into place, they came to a consensus that it was a good idea, and they didn't bother to test the code to understand the impact before Forking into place. Oh and lets not forget the top 20 witnesses are the ones in charge of the costs for an RC, not Ned or Steemit Inc. They could completely erase the harm done by the RC's by cutting the costs for each action and Ned would have no say in that.
As much as I'm not thrilled with all of the actions from Ned, he has become a scapegoat for the witnesses that really are responsible for this mess who flat out refuse to take any responsibility for their actions.
I am hopeful for a much brighter future as I don't feel this "crypto winter" can last much longer. Once steem is sitting back over $1 the big boys will be making money again and they will loosen up the purse strings a little. Many of them rely on their steem income stream so lower the price the more they have to sell, meaning the more they need to monetize their holdings.
are you sure the witnesses are in charge? i remember stinc decided to increase the rc budget by 10x when ned finally realized not everyone has millions of sp. there were comments asking for at least another 10x because you still needed hundreds, which was flatout ignored.
i ain't too happy with the witnesses either but people can always vote. as for ned, the only option is to create a fork that locks out his steem which i'm totally for.