# It’s obvious, steemit did something deemed impossible; make people behave online!

## No other social media platform has ever before been able to stop the rude, or sometimes even downright abusive online behavior. 

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**Facebook, Twitter and most other social platforms will be around for a long time to come, but their failure to find a way to make people behave respectfully, is why their decline has started now ... the existence of Steemit has made that an inevitability.**

> *"For the very first time in my life, I’m experiencing here on steemit what it means to be part of a civilized forum. The difference is obvious and significant. What a delight! Steemit solved the problem of online verbal abuse!"*

While looking at any other social platform; there's a lot vile going on, a lot of swearing and profanities, anger and frustrations, harassment and bullying ... it’s a problem. 

This while there's some of it in Steemit of course, but remarkable less ... **don't believe me? try it yourself!** Have a good look around; you will hardly see any negative comments anywhere ... the difference really is significant.

And Steemit is not using censorship. Although it’s possible to downvote ‘rude’ comments, that's not the biggest driver. It’s the reward system that makes people behave polite and respectful; there are simply much less ‘rude’ comments. 

People are [incentivized](http://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/jep_published.pdf) to be at their best behavior, because they actually might make some money from that, while being rude will waste their chances.

And of course the downvote also matters, but that’s just to clean up those few ‘bad’ comments that are still being made despite it all. But the 'rude' comments are so rare and few, people will downvote them and the system makes those 'bad' comments  fade away. And the result is that there are hardly any negative comments to be found; it's really exceptional.

**Slowly but surely, Steemit is actually restoring my faith in humanity ...**

# It’s a huge milestone, and while it might take a couple more years for the whole world to notice … the 2008 financial crash already happened, bitcoin already exists and now steemit is here; anarchy is on the rise!

**Many thanks to all the people behind steemit, you’re awesome!**