So today I want to introduce a concept of Charles Dickens in His ghost of Christmas past, present and future, only this time I will be referring to steemit. We will be looking at steemit as a past concept, the present and what we believe the future might hold for steemit as a whole. I hope you enjoy it. # The ghost of steemit past ![steemit back and white.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXCVrnLSnnUd5wCYHbbAHs7QsUZ7TVapxV73Z3WJjZCos/steemit%20back%20and%20white.jpg) In the novel by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts of the past, present and future to determine His fate. Today, we focus on the ghost of Steemit past, present and the future. The past is all about events leading to the recent hardfork .19 Before then, steemit was viewed as a desert land, a land although considered still bare, had it's occasional oasis which meant occasional breakthroughs in the posts of minnows which saw them earning well on random posts. Those occasions were considered an oasis in the desert because, they were like an eureka moment or a time when your fairy godmother visited. I was once lucky on one such occasions on a post to have gathered a whooping $500+, in that moment I kept staring at my screen like it was a dream, a dream where you hit the $100,000,000 jackpot in Las Vegas. Back then so many people celebrated such feats that were hardly every attained by minnows in the community. A friend of mine once accidentally broke His phone on hitting over $200 luckily on a post once. He was so joyous He didn't know when he stretched his arms apart, the phone slipped out of his hands and "kissed" the wall at a speed that really puts the neck in breakneck speed. Further back, there was a time when a hardfork took it all away, the period where people thought the only option was to run away from the platform. ___ # There was the time when steem was about to sing "hallelujah with the angels on the piano" , but that is all gone, as steemit is back on track. ___ # Let us look at..... # The Ghost of Steemit present ![stemit img.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSo4K6C6nfu8sirhofJqgCUCQjXVi2BLf8V23ia4YzLbN/stemit%20img.jpg) Fast forward to present day, hardfork .19 happened and the people are excited, why, because everyone became a recipient of goodwill from steemit. The hardfork .19 popularly known as the "equality" hardfork truly restored more than equality, it restored a fighting sense in all and sundry. There returned the sense of real equality as people now easily attain the $200 mark with good followership and a decent write up. Those who were offline and had tossed steemit into the cold, now returned with songs of praises and all seems well at the moment. The doubting Thomases on steemit now have a reason to believe in the vision once again # Can we view a possible future # The ghost of steemit future ![future steemit.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUVfgHjC95ewLWURUXBhycMZR3efUAGRhs51bkK3taqiX/future%20steemit.jpg) So there is celebration in the air, everyone feeling joyful over the tremendous increase in post payouts, but such things always come at a cost. With human always having greed in their nature, there is always a probability of bastardization of such good policies by individuals who have the get it all right away and invest in other things mindset. Let us look at these throbbing questions and have a possible peek at the future.... ___ > # but will it always be joyful? Will the posts outweigh the votes thereby creating a pre-hardfork scenario all over? How long exactly will this last? What will be the effect of this hardfork on the future of steem and steemit? Will other hardforks be like this? ___ To answer them all at once, we look at the current trend on steemit right now. A lot of people are now posting numerous times on their blog with the intention to make more money but here's the problem... ![houston-we-have-a-problem.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcer8YTDu6ho9oFighSEWsRrFkkah3vPynoM8ichRmP7i/houston-we-have-a-problem.jpg) When everyone is posting, who do you think will actually vote? There are five times as many posts than we used to have on post promotional channels on steemit chat and with each individual pegged at four to five posts a day, who is actually voting? Feeds are actually over populated and people just don't have the time to read them all, so they do the next best logical thing which is either to vote by title or by reputation which brings us back to square one. Another problem is with so many people making cash, there lies a conflict of interest as to where and how to invest it. Picture this, if a system pays you so much and you spend so much trying to develop another thing instead of developing it, how will you get more gestures of goodwill? If you do not understand my angle, if steemit gives you and increased percentage of steem and sbd, why go and invest the bulk of it in the likes of litecoin and ethereum? I mean, do you know if you worked in a company, you could get fired for attempting that. It is okay to invest, but why not invest the bulk in steem and if you must cash out, why not straight to your bank account? In my opinion, it seems like a slap on the face of steem and steemit as a whole when we do that. The future of steemit and steem looks bright but we are setting it on a path of condemnation. steemit chat crash hours after the hard fork, I hope we learnt something from that? It means even the best of intentions could disappoint if abused, and gradually some are starting to abuse this privilege. ___ > # On a final note, steemit.chat is back online again ___ image credit: [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS1N6MKJs0Y)-[2](https://steemit.com/@condra)-[3](https://steemit.com/steemit/@carlos-cabeza/icon-steemit-png-ico)-[3](http://goldkeys.tk/nawi/houston-we-have-a-problem-309.php) Thanks to @elyaque for the badge and @son-of-satire for the generic footer ![generic.gif](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcGTgE9ztQ7QmWESyE7uVqLrUqfbAa1fsTCod6dmsFYjP/generic.gif) ![lion badge.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaFwRpYLiSu7fatDymW2iUokFu4Hf4TNLyj9SDMLVy1BV/lion%20badge.png)
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Thank you for following
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Hmmmm, What to say other than you are 100% right. I just hope that more people will start to get in this mindset and upvote posts that are worth upvoting and posting content that is worth to read "like this post". Also I can't agree with you more on reinvesting in steem and steem power to help keep this network growing and profit everyone. Thumbs up my friend.
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Some wise words. It is possible that after the HF19 hard fork and the lapse of enough time, we find ourselves right back in the same situation as just before HF19. Perhaps the herd mentality of man cannot be caged that easy.
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perhaps it cannot be caged indeed
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Wow, you really did an excellent write-up about Steemit and your words were so true. You hit the hammer on the nail. I've only been with Steemit a little over a month and in this short time I was overwhelmed with people just bombarding me with multiple posts which were filled with a few words and a picture. It really was a turn off for me. So now I tend to focus only on the quality posts with meaning. I'm glad you wrote this well thought out article. You did an excellent job. Thank-you!!!
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Thank you
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This post received a 1.6% upvote from @randowhale thanks to @ehiboss! For more information, [click here](https://steemit.com/steemit/@randowhale/introducing-randowhale-will-you-get-the-100-vote-give-it-a-shot)!
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<p>Congratulations! This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by Ehiboss from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, and someguy123. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows and creating a social network. Please find us in the <a href="https://discord.gg/HYj4yvw">Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel</a>. It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.</p> <p>If you like what we're doing please upvote this comment so we can continue to build the community account that's supporting all members.</p>
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