This post had me interested till the last sentence. I am here for a year now. Since June, 2017. I have seen some of the botless days and that worked for me well because I didn't have money to invest in SP or bots. My content was appreciated a lot and I quickly rose to a little fame.
The platform has lost it. In the name of decentralization, free market or whatever. Steemit has lost it big time. It's no more a place to flourish. Not as of now.
Some thoughts I expressed here.
Steemit Inc's focus on SMTs ahead of improving the immediate implementation of Steem blockchain (i.e. Steemit) is misplaced.
Steem enabling heavy delegations and empowering bid/promo bots to have the biggest stake in the platform is a grave mistake which very well contradicts the vision of making humans with stake to decide where the quality is.
With so much wealth at Ned's disposal—and at the disposal of Steemit Inc.—it should not be hard to rectify the mistakes in the code or its implementation.
Removal—even identification—of bad actors in the platform is non-existent.
There are bad actors in the platform who are free to operate at the expense of platform's future and bad experience of other users; like myself.
Dear @schattenjaeger, I found you for the first time today and I must admit that I like you.
I'm glad you found my pointless ramblings to be interesting. I never understand why, but I'm always happy when it happens. :)
And you make good points in your quote.