This is all nothing but a dream. We've been talking about SMT's and all this nonsense for how long now?
I cannot believe after as long as you've spent here you still expect the Steemit, inc. team to deliver anything of real value.
They haven't since Dan left. That's a fact.
Until there are developers other than the amateurs @ned hires contributing to the development of Steem, we're not going to see any significant changes.
Agree. The timeframe is stretched so much that it already seems like failing to deliver. Come on, other teams made complete new blockchains from scratch while st.Inc giving birth to HF20 alone.
You seem to be right, since I came here in the beginning of 2018, all I've seen was my investment turning to dust, while whales keep circle-jerking and STINC just talks and does nothing else.
There is no real correlation between the value of STEEM and the so-called quality of content (spoiler: it's shit in 95% of cases) that is advocated so much. No paid votes - no exposure - waste of time - creators leave. By now I wish I never came.
How can we expect this place to explode and go viral when new users can't even register easily? I invited some of my friends to join and each and every one run into a registration problem, I even had to buy one account myself after weeks of waiting. At the same time, bots come in in hundreds. It is so easy to fix (I'm saying that as a programmer), yet STINC have done nothing but putting a caption that a free registration means waiting for a couple of weeks. They still manage to fail to fix it.
How can we explain that, besides calling them what they are - amateurs, incompetent and uninterested in the accomplishing the goals.
Now they promise SMTs, communities, hivemind, you name it. Look at this, almost 5 months ago they were "about to introduce" those changes and they still haven't.
I'd really like to believe that success is just around the corner, but crypto space just keeps disappointing, especially steemit.
Interesting, it's not as bad as I thought. They seem to actually work on it. Still, it doesn't invalidate the fact that there were no major improvements for more than half a year and steemit is still not appealing to the new users either visually or by functionality. Nor can they signup normally.
First thing that attracted me to steemit was "quality of content". But then I realised the bots and their role. I was little dissapointed because it became all about upvoting and not focusing on content
Yes u are right. But without bots it is very difficult to atract people or to reach them. Even like this. I invested a small amount because i believe that that can help in the begining. I always try to share my experience about life. But most of the people here are just looking for crypto topics and also even they following u but if they dont see the big amount they dont vote.
When i start i didnt use any bot. I didnt earn almost nothing and also i didnt had followers. Than i told to myself lets try it different way. After i make some promotion for my posts i start to recieve votes and also followers.
Maybe the problem is about the feed or it will be also good if there will be a friend list maybe.
Tnx for this. It is helpful. I am still in doubt to use bots or not because we are responsible how is steemit going to work. Using them we are encouriging to bots become dominant and important, but I din't think that corelates with the idea of good content getting recognized and eventualy get some earnings on that quality
To be honest now since few days i also make usually 2 posts. For 1 i use bots still but for the another post not.
I think the main problem is that more and more people wanna just earn here so they are not curious about the posts. The important for them is just that they have the votes on they own. Thats why it is so so hard to reach the people. But if they see a post with few dollars already than they will follow u they will also vote. Most of the time the reason is because they wanna earn as a currators.
But also i think that the system also need the people like these because just with content creators there will be less trafic and the vallue of the sbd will fall. Maybe i am wrong but this is what i think.
I am sure it will be easier if there will be a friend list.
So basicly in everything good there is something wrong and in wrong things there is also good.
Bernie. Being the guy that just wants to see it all burn hopefully will get old with time for you.
Statements like you just made, that amateurs are developing for Steemit.inc is a fatalist statement.
Someone had to come up with the idea of SMTs and Oracles. Was it Dan?
Youre making money here, im making money here regardless of all the problems, lets try and give the guys trying to make it all a bit better some support. At least the benefit of a doubt.
That's very easy for you to say when you have little stake in Steem. I come up with ideas all day long, just because it popped into my head doesn't mean I should talk about it for 18 months like it's actually going to come to fruition.
If we rely on STINC to develop everything, then we are not really decentralized. @steemhunt has developed a decent Account Based Voting system on their own. You are a programmer, right? So how about developing something on STEEM like @steemhunt or @steemmonsters
Alternatively you can sell your stake and get into a STEEM competitor or just buy EOS which is going to have lots of airdrops.
Easy for me to say? You pull your stakes out right now or few weeks from now when the market recovers and youre probably set for a long time. I on the other hand have to hope that my talent, time and effort i place here will amount to something in the future. That one day i might be able to say that i dont have to worry about finances all day long. So really its not "easy for me to say"..
Developing complex ideas takes time. You call upon Dan as the "fruition guy" and he needed 2 projects before making EOS that still isnt perfect..
Ned makes some silly mistakes but hes my age, running a a company based on revolutionary tech. Walking in uncharted territory. Expecting instagram, facebook, youtube level of development is beyond any reason.
I have to say I was a believer in STINC at the start, but come on, its been to long! Its starting to feel much like waiting with Linus for the Great Pumpkin! I am not drinking the Kool-Aid any longer!