Well, I'm not against folks earning for contributing. There just needs to be a balance. Without that, there's not much to motivate someone to contribute what they feel is worthwhile. All content producers need to know their product has the potential to draw in outside eyes, and those eyes could eventually be distracted by ads, and those ads help pay the bills, and those bills being paid allows everyone to own a token that's worth something. All of it matters. If I see a video with people joking around and it has nothing to do with Steem, that matters. A song matters. Science article. My posts! Your posts! It all adds value. Entertainment, in general, is big business; and that entertainment can be anything.
Exactly my friend.
I'm sick and tired of posts about steem. We already have had the trending page like today and it didn't help much.
And I'm afraid that some people just don't want to understand that. They profit in both cases. They can post and run the bot.
History does prove it didn't help much in the past. History also tells us, in times of change, there's more talk about the platform. So in all fairness I believe it's a bit early to begin these often pointless trending page debates all while hoping things begin to balance out over time, in order to gain the benefits a balance brings with it, down the road. It has also been difficult for some folks to understand the importance of that balance. Some of them did provide the tools to do a lot of damage in the past. That's the past though and I can only hope lessons were learned.
Well, I'm not against folks earning for contributing. There just needs to be a balance. Without that, there's not much to motivate someone to contribute what they feel is worthwhile. All content producers need to know their product has the potential to draw in outside eyes, and those eyes could eventually be distracted by ads, and those ads help pay the bills, and those bills being paid allows everyone to own a token that's worth something. All of it matters. If I see a video with people joking around and it has nothing to do with Steem, that matters. A song matters. Science article. My posts! Your posts! It all adds value. Entertainment, in general, is big business; and that entertainment can be anything.
Exactly my friend.
I'm sick and tired of posts about steem. We already have had the trending page like today and it didn't help much.
And I'm afraid that some people just don't want to understand that. They profit in both cases. They can post and run the bot.
History does prove it didn't help much in the past. History also tells us, in times of change, there's more talk about the platform. So in all fairness I believe it's a bit early to begin these often pointless trending page debates all while hoping things begin to balance out over time, in order to gain the benefits a balance brings with it, down the road. It has also been difficult for some folks to understand the importance of that balance. Some of them did provide the tools to do a lot of damage in the past. That's the past though and I can only hope lessons were learned.