Steemit Change

in #steemit5 years ago

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I am not much of a conservative mostly because I believe that change paradoxically is the one thing that is constant in this universe, everything changes and nobody can expect things to remain the same forever.

That being said I see some people that want to change things on Steemit, but most of these "changes" aren't really changes they are just a return to what was the status quo just a few hardforks back, most of these changes were made at the time because whales were getting too big a share of the reward pool and that was not helping the recruiting of new members.

That is about the gist of it, of course I see a lot of posts that are trying to justify going back to these standards mostly with a lot of talk and formulas, well I will tell you something when somebody starts using words and numbers that are hard to understand they are trying to hoodwink you, when things are straight forward you don't have to justify them, they justify themselves.

Of course this trend is worrying, because what I see is the people who hold larger stakes appear to be afraid of the future and want to make as much money as possible before anything really negative happens, apparently there is not as much confidence in SMT's as would be expected, and people who have quite big stakes leaving is not helping my perspective either.

Do these guys think that we are nearing the end of Steemit as a viable place to make money? And I don't mean just as a social media I mean as an investment opportunity. If this isn't the case I would think these guys should just stop trying to implement old ideas as saviours because they aren't.

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Well said. it is nice to have a voice of reason. the proposal I'm against the most is 50/50 curation. That's basically just saying making a vote (or just autovote/curation trail) is as same as putting 2+ hours to write something. Both quality and content would go down under such system.

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Caveat: I can't predict the future, and definitely can't advise anyone on investing.

I don't have a huge stake in Steemit but in my opinion some tweaking of the system is probably a good thing. I personally think we should move to a one person one vote system with staked sp just giving you daily interest. That will probably not happen, it would require a few things like an oracle to ensure people ddn't just create 1000 bots. I think this would help get better blogs to the top

I have also seen a few people suggest changing rewards so that you would get more for curation. IMO not the worst idea as there are people who just upvote 9 of their own comments every day, if we could encourage those people to upvote other peoples posts with better curation profits I think there there would be more upvotes spread around.

I personally think steemit is going to be a round a while even if SMT's fail. In investigating other "coins for posting" sites I don't see any potentially overtaking us any time soon. Something catastrophic like complete system meltdown would probably have to happen. I see whales cashing out as a chance for new people to move up the ladder, this is your chance to move up the ladder. But I can't say for sure what the future will bring, i'm in for the long haul!

Well nobody at least that I know of wants Steem to fail, but look at the example you place of the guy who upvotes himself 9 times daily and gets 25% curation rewards, wouldn't it seem logical to you that with a 50% reward this guy would probably post more articles and upvote himself even more as the rewards are better?

There would have to be some controls, it seems the idea to change things never gets much traction as the people making the most steem have the most power and least incentive to change.

when things are straight forward you don't have to justify them, they justify themselves.

The above quote form you sums it up nicely

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