I think it's an interesting move. My wife and have were consistently producing content on Steem for a while, but the circle jerking thing really annoyed us both. Eventually, as rewards started to decrease to community members and float to the whales which caused our earnings (mainly hers) to go down, she became disincentivized.
I'm appreciative for the initiative Steem took to tackle content monetization via blockchain, but this monetization issue (steem circle jerk) has been around since the beginning of Steem and was always a major problem. Everyone shouting out that this next update HF20 will solve everything, when Steem has been around for 2+ years with this existing issue, doesn't exactly make me feel that re-assured either.
Will see how both Steem and Lino work out.
Absolutely. You'll notice the top complainers are the whales who are "in the STEEM club" and the followers who circle jerk them for upvotes trying to get into the club.
And the whales are flagging dissenters. They are only proving the point dlive was making with their exit.
What more can you say that's the way the circle goes lol.
You talk about human nature. It has nothing to do with Steem Blockchain. There is no fantasy land where you can go and escape human nature. Some are more selfless some are more greedy. You are only looking at 1 perspective.
People upvote good content and there are great curators out there like @tribesteemup who has been given whale SP delegation as they upvote 200 people daily not circle jerking. That happens but it happens in life you can give up or fight on, all crypto lost tremendous market cap that means steem did also. Too bad you and your wife are giving up, many of us are still here and helping others that need help around the world.