Steemit Is Shit But Still The Best Social Media Platform Outhere
I wrote earlier a post about how Steemit would be if there would be no rewards. Obviously some took it the wrong way. Sometimes I write something and I expect others to have followed through my earlier posts from 2016. Silly Me. So let me explain myself further.
If I ever made the grave mistake and produce offspring, Steemit would be the first place I would introduce to them. I wouldn't praise Steemit. I wouldn't try to promote it as the best thing since sliced bread. I would simply point out and say "Look son, this is a micrograph of the shit world I brought you in without your permission. If you don't like it, well, better get used to it or end yourself".
Part of the joy in Steemit is to be able to write whatever the fuck you want without caring what others think. For example, I had earlier a guy say to me "Hmm, it seems that multiple people use the account @kyiacos because sometimes the language is nice and pretty and sometimes it is hasty and has many mistakes". Well, no shit Sherlock. I don't sit here having in mind that I will be perceived as the next Hemingway. I write because I like to write and getting paid for the shit I write. Sometimes it comes out good. Sometimes is shit. I rarely edit. I would quit Steemit if I had to go through proofreading. It would seem like i am dressing up for a date, putting make up, you know, being a pretentious little prick for the sake of approval from some random douchebags.
The absolute beauty of Steemit is that it incorporates the exact same dynamics as the ones taking place in the real world. You have your whales at the top of the pyramid who are there for the simple reason of being first. Then you have your groupies and the guilds/parties with the mini-whales that pretend they assist communities. It goes much like it goes to any big company. The boss sits in the office, takes a tour every now and then down in the factory and pats randomly some guy on the back "Good work, good work, keep it up, here is an upvote/raise". And the shitshow goes on. In reality, we know that the boss that takes x10000 times more usually jerks off in some porn, plays with the computer and delegates the work to some passionate plebs that run the shitshow for him. Why? Well because he inherited the company/account or because he is friends with other whales.
Even the "self-made-men" here on steemit are people who got in early, got a massive delegation, build a massive account in a couple of months and now they are whales. Anyone could be in their position — but of course they believe they are special — much like in the real world.
And again. This is fine. I would pick this any day of the week rather than sitting on facebook and crafting every comment as if I am going to post it to the fucking Queen. It is fine because I would neck myself if I had to see on my wall another plate of food or how awesome the life of X person is when I know that they are miserable as fuck. The pretentiousness in any other social media is much more ridiculous than Steemit. The political correctness if way too suffocating at least for a foul shithead like myself. I prefer the mad max world of Steemit rather than the wonderland of the little pony that is facebook.
I consider Steemit the training ground for the real world. Most people will shut the fuck up and collect the rewards from their friend whales. Some others will make a post a month or 2 or 5 but make sure they are darn fucking awesome posts so they can excuse the x1000 in rewards they are getting. Same applies in real life. Some will jerk off in the office most of the time and wait for the right moment to deliver something good so that the boss can say "maybe this shithead is not wasting my money after all". The content is irrelevant ofcourse because the special boy got the job because he knew the boss or the daddy knew the boss. Again, same shit happens in real life.
The renegades will make bots and leach on every new post. These are small scammers that you also meet daily in life. The whales will sometimes cross dicks just to establish territory even if the rest of people are getting fucked. This happens in here as well. The plebs will pick sides and expect that their groupies will circle jerk enough for them to shine. The same companies lead the way much like the same people are trending even if they are absolutely worthless pieces of shit The wealth is concentrated on the 1% while the 99% fights for the breadcrumbs.
Steemit is my colosseum. A glorious micro-scale planet Earth with all of the dynamics packed in a small ecosystem. All that vile and shit that makes us human, it is all here folks. All those gems and diamonds that are lost in the piles of shit. All those who choose to see things "positively" because they happen to be the lucky ones. All of those cursing it because they are not favoured. All those pretending to care. It's beautiful I tell you. Fucking magnificent.
I haven't really got the time, the energy or the alertness (it's 1AM in my part of the world) to write a full-length reply but, yeah. I know how ypu feel.
The idea of "hey, here's a place where quality gets noticed" draws us here, the potential for that to one day become true keeps us here, but in the meantime it's a bunch of trolls who know they can attack your wallet now, and mindless zombies walking around trying to pounce on curation rewards for things they haven't even read.
Still, it's better than Facebook.
No SM platform will ever be perfect. If it were we would still find fault in it! Ah, to be human....
Too true.
Steemit still has the most potential of any platform I've seen. It was built on a solid idea, and none of its flaws are necessarily crippling. But... well, I notice it says "beta" on the logo. That implies it's still a work in progress. A lot of people feel like it's kind of being left as it is, as though the developers have just said "nah, beta is fine. No need to refine it."
there's another soft fork coming up soon. That's when small steps are made. I think it will be in beat for awhile. Still glad to have discovered it!!
Yup, I agree... I like the way you write and think.
There is a lot to agree with here.
I know how Steemit can easily be fixed. Currently there is no moderation for the tags. I would allow for moderated tags to compete with non-moderated tags. You need both moderated tags, and absolute freedom tags. A moderator, for example, could make a rule that any posts that uses a bot for an upvote is banned (banned from being seen on that tag only). I also want tags to remain that have absolutely no moderation (other than flagging). I want to see moderated tags compete against un-moderated tags so we have the best of both worlds and people can decide which tags they will use. If this feature is implemented on Steemit, I think most of the the problems will go away.
good luck enforcing this.
Good luck moderating the moderators, or selling that idea on this platform knowing that it was literally created to make censorship impossible, and you want to create censored tags.
Good luck getting through life with those reading comprehension skills. God, I'm really getting tired of the ADHD people who can't read. I said moderated tags compete with unmoderated tags. I'm not trying to end "muh anarchy."
You're a moron:
How do you moderate the moderators, and How do you propose Selling the idea of Censorship/Moderated tags on a platform that is inherently against censorship. Assume some moderators and everything will be fine, because god knows you did mention that people still have the option of posting in OTHER tags, what a tool.
Go fuck yourself with your logistics argument. I'm telling you what needs to be done and you give me is God damned logistics. Faggot.
O you mean I posed the very first problem that would arise with positions of power, or that nobody will get behind your idiotic "censorship tags" because it goes inherently against everything this platform stands for. You're telling me that you haven't even considered your solution you dipshit, ergo you could answer clearly and suciently when questioned "who moderates the moderators", you cannot and think that somehow that equates to me not understanding what you proposed, what a tool, becaue gosh did you know you said Unmoderated tags as well. Go vote yourself you faggot.
Fuck off. You let people create their own moderated hashtags and if the moderation is good people will post their content on them and if the moderation sucks they will use a different tag. Not that complicated, but if you want to be a faggot about it then continue.
And what the fuck does that solve you idiot? besides creating numerous problems, such as TagSitting you faggot without a iota of consideration to expound, Go fucking Vote yourself some more, or did you forget to do that in your anger at the internet telling you kindly "think again"?
"Im telling you what to do and you are refuting my flaweless logic with one, two punch, that to me means you haven't understood what I am proposing."
Reading Comprehension Much faggot? What do you do about the moderators that need moderating? How do you sell the idea that Censorship is what the platform built inherently to combat censorship needs? Idiot.
I won.
Yeah, you're the number one Idiot, solving the problem of Moderated Tags because every idiot needs something to think over.
Im sure that your comment is worth all those shares, you facking tool.
The irony is that in the effort to make a platform that was uncensorable, what has actually happened is anyone with money has become a smashingly effective censor of anyone with less, while being uncensorable themselves.
Censorship and Curation are two different things. Calling curation censorship is a stretch.
That depends. If someone with the power to silence someone chooses to do so, then no matter what label is attached to it, I'd say that person has been censored.
Let's say John Doe Steeminan (new account) posts comment X. Well, Joe Bloe Whale (with a few million Steem Power and a reputation score in the 80's because everyone upvotes his nonsensical posts hoping to score curation rewards or tickle his ego enough to make him upvote them) reads comment X and decides he doesn't like it (for no particular reason). So Joe Bloe Whale goes on a streak of going through John Doe Steemian's posts and flagging every one of them until John Doe Steemian's rep score is well below zero, meaning his posts now never see the light of day. John Doe Steemian has neither the power to defend nor retaliate.
This platform is one of the best ideas I've seen in a while but there's a reason the logo still says "beta" on it. I hope that there will be some way to iron out these bugs in the future.
I have been flagged by whales and bots before, my reputation was never nuked but regardless of how you slice it, it's not censorship. I was free to post and comment wherever whenever I wanted. All that happened is that people were presented with an intriguing and mysterious "warning" along with a button. How is that censorship?
and I am just down here fighting for my bread crumbs like
We're all just a part of a great experiment.
#a round of applause!!!! You are so blunt and i like it. One of the best and sincere post i have read so far since I joined 16 days back. I get frustrated when I have a good post with 0-4 upvotes and some whales just throw in some funny posts and they make a lot. Steemit is a cool community but there is still space for improvement.
Well said. Steemit is like a petridish of human societies.
Just like some economists made studies based on World of Warcraft and other MMOs people could learn a hell of a lot about the real world spending time here.
I love it just as often as I hate it.
What an epic say! Chapeau!
If it's the interface you don't like, check out busy.org
Same login, same blockchain, same rewards, different interface.
its not the interface your imbecile
Aaahahahah!
Tbh I said almost the same thing to myself. That comment was after reading the first couple paragraphs. Someone is a bit of a misanthrope.
Some people suck. Don't follow or support them.