This is not about me, it's about your piece of content. You can ask me 1,000 things about my state of mind, the answer is: none of your business.
While you believe that I waste my time commenting here, you should appreciate the given advices. There are a couple of established users (even the CTO from Steemit Inc!) trying to open your eyes since a couple of hours, and the only thing you do is telling us that you feel offended.
@ats-david just said it all with his comment.
I'm out.
You're right, but I do feel compelled to reach out and help a person smashing their foot against the wall and complaining their foot hurts.
I'm not offended. Actually no one in the office is offended. We're scratching our heads as to some of these responses: from a place of rationality, they don't make sense.
I can't speak about cryptocurrencies or the intricate details about what's in this article. I didn't write it, it's not my specialty, and I'm not addressing anything in this article. But, I am aware of a lot of other pieces in place that extend beyond Steemit and have a pretty good sense of cause-effect relationships
As an effect of the Earth Nation Beta Launch, Steemit is going to get a lot more users.
pls no
If these new users are anything like you and your "team," then I'll pass on the offer. Thanks.
Not much of a choice at this point, more like watching the clouds roll in.
Are you familiar with game theory by chance?
Lots of clouds have rolled in. And lots of clouds have rolled right back out, especially when they realize that their BS doesn't work out so well when rewards are on the line.
The Steemit user base might be far from perfect, but when enough people smell a scam or authoritarian clowns disguising themselves as "peaceful" and "open-minded," they don't tend to last long around here.
Good luck to you all. If your behavior so far is what the rest of your followers are like, you'll need it.
So, those people we're going to attract, the average internet user, they are going to contribute BS?
No, what you're smelling is an over-enthusiastic tech lead who saw a huge win-win opportunity for Steemit and the Earth Nation. We really want to onboard the masses to the blockchain and all the opportunities available through it, because wider user adoption gives organizations like us a huge leg up when it comes to helping humanitarian . We want to do this because we actually care about doing good. Everyone here at our headquarters is living communally off of $200/mo: there's no possible argument you can make that we're doing this for the money.
Personally, as a writer and juggler who is a living breathing human being, I think the bot strategy Dakota employed was a little overzealous. I didn't really oppose him, because the man's a wiz when it comes to tech, numbers, and strategy. I say that as the team member that can explain to a kindergarten class that the universe can be described as a mechanical byproduct of a self-replicating, binary algorithm, which grows logarithmically more complex as new rule-sets are generated as emergent phenomena from previous rule-sets. I generally trust him, but I think he didn't factor in the emotional factor of social behavior.
That's really the bottom line here. From a completely rational place, our presence here at this time only serves to directly benefit everyone on Steemit. This response is unconscious herd mentality.
Unless you personally are worried about having a larger userbase will result in more competition in your particular niche, a very personal and self-centered fear, then you don't have a rational opinion against us. All things observed, all resources accounted for and tracked across time, from a game theory perspective of our predictable world, the long-term actions of the Earth Nation directly benefits every Steemit user.
The more value that is put into the system, the more value everyone on the system can generate.