It's no secret that many people start using SteemIt, but then leave. So, I'm asking the question if anyone reading this is leaving, or thinking of leaving, SteemIt. There could be many reasons, of course, but it would be interesting to know what they are.
In terms of being on the SteemIt platform, it is very non-PC to say anything bad about SteemIt. Everybody knows that it can reduce revenue, get you flagged, even get you targeted by a bot. This makes it very hard for there to be any improvements.
In fact, only on SteemIt will you see posts praising the platform as an expected homage.
The same cannot be said for Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc. Although they also have their own rules and restrictions, at least they are in the most part visible AND they are open to criticism.
Is there anyone here who is not afraid to criticize SteemIt?
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I'm not really "considering leaving", more just new and not really invested, but the criticism that springs to mind if you're asking for some is that it resembles multi-level marketing or a Ponzi scheme.
Not that SteemIt is a pyramid scheme, mind, but it has enough traits in common that those "posts praising the platform as an expected homage" that you describe always strike me as coming from the same state of mind as people who've been suckered into a multi-level marketing scheme.
I think most other complaints I could come up with would boil down to problems with the ways I've been using the site, so I'll leave it at just that one.
Yes, at first look it does look like a ponzi scheme. Payments depend on Steem which is created out of thin air, but the same can be said for any cryptocurrency. If Bitcoin is valid, then why not Steem? (BTW, that's only a rhetorical question).
However (in saying that), with more users, the value of average payments will be less and less unless the price of Steem continues to rise. This suggests that some equilibrium must be reached at some point.
I think its a trend that is becoming rampant in the crypto world, technologies are complex, are often in investment plans, and values can tank easily so i would say its hard all together to have objective informations, all people who knows or feel interested often have vested interest, and dont want negative points to rise up for not loosing money, as price can very volatile with bad news.
I would not say im scared to speak negtively of steem, but i generally like to make deep study of the matter before to talk about it, and i only have superficial understanding of it yet.
And im not big social media user, i like more old school presentation so the ui fits for me, it has the basics features id use.
But as a developper, i know blockchain tech are more complex than centralized tech, and the industry is still very early, and there is still no silver bullet to solve everything smoothly yet, neither on managment policy, economy, technique, and most tech are still potentially under fragile funding, so i guess it feel bit like walking on eggs when trying to critic it.
I'm very happy with the UI even though at first I really didn't like it.
why should anyone be criticizing the steemit platform in the first place ?
Why wouldn't they? Is it perfect? People join and then leave- it's a statistical fact people have talked about on SteemIt itself, and is seen as a problem. This is why SteemIt is still in "Beta".
It's quite normal for people to criticize Facebook, YouTube, etc. within their platforms. Why should SteemIt be any different?
most people just come into the platform with the mind set of make huge amount of $ immediately and tend to post mostly plagiarise articles and other irrelivant stuffs
so tell me ,, why wont such people get discouraged at some point ?
I agree with most of what you said apart from the "irrelevant stuff". I have seen many times SteemIt marketed or prometed as an alternative to Facebook, but with the added benefit of being paid for the posts that you make. Facebook is very 'free' in what you can post - this is part of what makes it so successful.
The mindset you were referring to is therefore promoted by the very people who are promoting SteemIt.