Like you said before nearly no one earns 20$ on their posts at the moment. The only people that do are those with either a big pocket or a big following. They will be earning more. But to be frank it is not those people that need to stay around to make a "SOCIAL" network. It are the small people that make or break a big system like steem. We have seen a decline in activity for months now. Because the small people don't interact anymore. Everyone is scrounging to get ever last bit of steem. And what do the devs do? Make shure the small people earn even less while the big whales earn more .... ?
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@zoef, thanks God there's someone that says that the king is naked. I am curious to see the curation level when what will remain is just a bunch of whales'posts on whose quality and intrinsic interest allow me to doubt. At this point, mass adoption is a utopia. Surely this is going create another disincentive for content creators: why should they write quality posts when their time and effort is worth nothing? Why someone new should feel curious and attracted by Steemit? Probably, this is just not the place where to find interesting contents (interesting per se, aka something that anyone steemian or not would come and read). So what place is this? Let's stop being delusional high there: time is passing and scaling/broad adoption is not happening.
Well if they would stop helping wales and focus on the bottom tier users. The system would have a chance. But instead they are creating a utopia for the big wales to earn even more. And all that under a pretense that they want to block the bidding bots. Yeah right. The bidding bots are all controlled by those same whales .... hypocracy.
I am personaly pulling out every last dime i have in steam and moving the cash to other coins. I no longer believe the devs have any (if all) interest in getting it to work.
What I can say is that this coin should be evalued with the same metrics of others, adopting an objective/external pov.
This is not possible, as this coin is beeing valued by it's users. And to be frank alot of people are leaving. The only once staying are those that are proffiting. Lets be frank why would anyone stay after they see the big holders claiming everything? And when new rules get put into place they are meand to let those big players even earn more?
I just meant that this is an investment like others, and from this perspective not a very good one. Obviously, being euphemistic. This metrics are not only possible but also necessary if we give value to our time and money and the result is: find alternatives. In my community, we will keep going just out of a passion for writing but we're surely open to changes. Good luck with your projects!
The break even mentioned in the post is 20 STEEM, not $20. (It is also not a hard barrier; at 15 STEEM or 10 STEEM, or 30 for that matter, the difference is still pretty small).
20 STEEM = $3.60 currently.
The diffrence is that now the average post gets around 0.2$ in upvotes. I wonder how this wil make a diffrence in the upvote bots? Anyone with money will just buy a upvote of atleast 7$ and the big dudes problem is no more.
The small once however will not be able to.
So in essence this is no solution to the problem. The only thing this achieves is making shure small plankton has no way of building up towards the goal of 3.6$ upvotes.