IS RESTEEMING THE SCOURGE OF STEEMIT?
Like one of those people with constipation who hasn't taken a dump for weeks, I've been letting my shit build up.
And now I'm overdue to let a big smelly one rip. The combination of watching our cryptos take a long hard spanking while Steemit gets flooded with white noise, EOS promotion, and fudporn, has left me a bit agitated.
And the starting point for todays rant is resteeming. For some reason resteeming is contantly worshipped as a service to Steemit, and encouraged as something to do more of.
Very occasional resteeming has its place, but that is not what is mostly going on here now. Most resteeming is of two dominant varieties - fake accounts trying to look busy, and lazy plonkers who can't be bothered writing their own posts.
RESTEEMING BY FAKE ACCOUNTS
As I posted HERE recently - a huge number of accounts on Steemit are fake - hundreds of thousands of the damn things. The standard pattern for them is to start out with some boring bullshit post designed to go unnoticed.
Something like "Studies show that the majority of people with crypto currencies regularly eat food" It's true, and it wasn't copied, but it's also utterly irrelevant and worthless. It will get no comments, no votes, and about two views. Perfect.
Now that the fake account is "established" the CIA cubicle farm monkey who is churning thousands of these accounts each week, will start resteeming like fuck. After a week the account timeline will look big and sort of real, and nobody will notice that there never was an introduction post because it would involve scrolling down for miles.
The main purpose of these accounts is to create white noise by posting thousands of meaningless comments that disagree with each other. (A disinformation mind control tactic) And also to make it look like Steemit has hundreds of thousands more members than it really does. I'm not sure if that side of things is CIA driven too but that will have to be another post.
RESTEEMING BY LAZY WHALES AND GEEKS
Like most old timers, I've watched lots of whales start out on Steemit posting original content, but over time they can't be arsed writing posts anymore so they just start resteeming.
They have thousands of followers who want a sniff of their big wallet, and resteeming makes them look active. But they are more like politicians than bloggers, and maybe resteeming is the secret handshake that pulls them in a few back handers.
Or for some reason they seem to think that everyone else should see what is on their timeline - maybe it's not about money but is just ego driven ("I know what is the best content")
IMAGINE ONLY HAVING ONE HOUR TO SPEND ON STEEMIT EACH DAY
That would probably be a very healthy limit for most people. But even though I only do about two posts a week myself, I often spend longer than that.
A day in the life - if I spend 10 mins scrolling down my timeline and voting for posts, sometimes without even reading them because I'm trying to quickly dish out some money to my Steemit friends, and then read say six long posts taking 5 mins each, and 10 short posts taking one min each, and if I then get suckered in and click on one 10 min video, that is my whole hour used up. No time for a post from me today then, and no time for comments either.
If I can't keep up with my own carefully selected feed, the last thing I want is a bunch of resteemed posts cluttering it up further. If I could, I'd put them into a separate tab and ignore them. But I can't so what I tend to do is just unfollow anyone who does a lot of resteeming.
I'm not looking for more people to follow - 200 is my upper limit - so I'm looking for an excuse to unfollow people and resteeming is often it.
IS MOANING AND RANTING SOMETHING WE NEED TO DO LIKE TAKING A DUMP?
While writing this load of negative spew I have had several other things pop into my head that I want to go on about in future posts.
Steemit is not yet like fakebook, and I think being honest and calling out bullshit are two important ways to fight back against this descent into the CIA driven PC white noise and FUDPORN world that is being planned for us here, like everywhere else.
Yes, I am saying Steemit is being shaped into yet another mind control site, and unless we stand up and resist that unseen hand, we may not have long before we find ourselves on fakebook 2.
So write your own new content and stop deluding yourself that constantly reposting other people's stuff is some kind of "community service" Wake up and grow some testicles the size of mellons everyone. Or boobs, or whatever you feel uncomfortable with.
That's my lot, now I'll go and mock some libtards and flat earthers.
You have a minor misspelling in the following sentence:
It should be separate instead of seperate.Ta - thanks you fascist geek - fixed now!
Ranting is important.
Often, you can just write it all out, and then crumble up the paper.
Just the act of getting it out is of big benefit.
That resteem tab was "almost done" a year ago.
I should probably just write it myself. But, that might take rewriting all of steem... and then watching it sit on github unused...
What we really need is a better crafted sorting algorithm for our feed.
I would like to get up in the morning, go down the titles of all my feed voting on what i think will be good, and then, limit my feed to the ones i voted on and go through and read them.
Without having to scroll through pages of @surpassinggoogle (although he is very good about what he resteems... still, its a lot.
I would also like to limit my feed to my favorite feeds for when time is short. But, it is not to be right now.
I could make a browser plug in that would do these things, but it would be slowish... as in, behind the scenes it would be pulling in pages of your feed, to serve you one page... but then, it would be limited to one computer, all the setting would be gone on any other comp.
Let me help you get over those constipation blues. Resteemed!
bloody resteems - i hear ya, i say we hunt them down and steal their stash??
Yeah - I am guilty occasionally - I didn't do any for my first year on Steemit, but then I got sloppy...
YES DON"T YOU HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE JUST RESTEEM???
wait did I just resteem a comment...
I ended up smiling at the end of your post. Thanks for that and for your well wordsmithed piece. Most of what you say makes sense. But from my early Twitter days, I found Retweets could be very powerful. I'm very new here (and pretty baffled by it all TBH) and it's a big 'time investment' decision for me. Time is the ultimate commodity. I'm not a routined man by any stretch of imagination so for me sometimes ReSteeming will be a way for me to support people and causes I want to advocate and promote. I was a major ReTweeter for @dr_black and her campaign for saving Bletchley Park, that would be my example of how RT/RS can be a powerful support tool when you can't support in an "all in" fashion. I'm going to RS this post now ;-)
PS - Yeah - Always call out the bullshit! hat tip man!
LOL - thanks for the resteem!
I only resteem when I am forced to because of a contest or a special request, otherwise I don't!
I know how much it bothers me to look at other people profile and see a column of resteem and I have to scroll down to look for a post, so I don't want that the others feel the same.
Thank you for sharing your precious information with me, now I know what libtard means, you libtard!!
Ay, good rant. I know some flat earthers personally, so , would I get mocked by association?
I rarely resteem and also unfollow most accounts than do tons of resteeming. I generally follow people because I like their content, not things they resteem
A bunch of people resteemed this post!
I was having a good laugh at that :)
Listening to all this negative stuff reminds me of this guy on a job I was on. An apprentice coined him Negative Ed, because everything out of his mouth, you guess it. You are right some people over do the resteeming .
Negative Ed never smiled. Always griming made him look like he was smiling.
That's me - Negative Ed!