Mm I guess I will see if I can endure and see how I go then, I think I may have been hoping for a bit too much when I heard what it was all meant to be about particularly if some form of compensation is involved. The way I understood it was that it was a social network that takes away the big business element and allows people to actually connect without some sort of alterior motive (allowing actual quality discussions) but now it just sounds like that has been lost to just another opportunity for people to sell.
It does take away the big business element, but that's not necessarily a good thing. Big businesses are big businesses because they know how to add value to the human race, something that most of the people who use this site have no idea how to do.
Instead, we have a free for all where people beg for upvotes and post shit content. With no guidelines for content that can be advertised on (because there is no advertising), the content on here has no reason to be good. Some people who have been here long enough still get upvotes from their friends who have lots of SP, but that's just a popularity contest. If you want to play that game then you're welcome to, it's just not for me.
If there wasn't the option to boost posts on here, I wouldn't be here.
Yeah fair call. I think all the recent media coverage about that sort of thing has started to bring out the tin foil hat man in me...
I guess at the end of the day everyone is going to have an agenda so it’s going to be near impossible to develop a pure “social network” that isn’t driven by someone’s self interest