Great opinions about steem which simply shows that the freedom of speech is at its house here.

I was just thinking about this the otherday.
Please do a post about cooking with whatsup or about some interesting trees whatsup has admired recently.

Wonder why you should even had to explain the reasons you do what you do. 

Isn’t it obvious to people that everyone is blogging about what they like most? How can I “force” an economist to blog about gardening? Just for the sake of it?

Keep doing your thing sis...it’s good.

Write about coffee instead... would love to read that from you.

Having said so, what do you mean a proven member of steem?

- Is it one that writes about Steem?

- Is it one that never powered down and always powers up?

- Is it one that attended Steem related gatherings?

- Is it one that organized Steem related gatherings?

- None of the above but defends Steem to death?

> Do you really think Ed Sheeran's new song is the best song each month?  No, it likely isn't.  But he tops the charts week after week.  He makes good music that appeals to enough people to hold his position.

That's funny. He tops the charts because that reason you said but besides that, mostly because of other reasons, and they all have to do with budget. Sounds familiar?.

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Can you please post some flower pictures - I really can't wait to see them :-)

every person has their things and people are not the same but for me there's one thing we're all the same here, we're all in steemit and i think we're all interested to read, watch or hear about steem especially the good news...

And as you said

>We've seen people come and go and watch the community turn on themselves 


That line hits me, I can say I'm  one of them .. I come and go but now I'm back because I missed everything about steemit, writing, reading everything..

I like to post gym selfies 😂😂😂

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Keep going, I love reading posts about Steem. Even though I don’t comment a whole lot!

Curated by the HoboDAO!

There's nothing wrong with Steem being discussed on the Steem blockchain, but there is something seriously messed up with it swamping the Trending page. 

It is just a problem existing in crypto in general really. Way too much moon-boy trash everywhere. And the minute anyone is even slightly critical about anything they get attacked like crazy. Honesty and rational thinking is not the name of the game in crypto, just overly enthusiastic hyping. 

I remember making a comment on Youtube where I explained clearly why the Bitcoin moon-boys claiming that Bitcoin can't be stopped are wrong. I was attacked relentlessly and accused of being a fiat-loving mole. I'm not against crypto, I am completely for it, but I'm not for playing along with delusions of grandeur. So I explained the step by step process that any sizeable government could easily do to destroy any of our POW blockchains. Nothing but ragequits ensued...

So, the trending page being filled by emotion-driven investors trying to pump their crypto is a real problem given that this is a social network. It is expected to be a real product, not just a  place for investors to keep each other's stack above the masses. But in reality, that is exactly what is happening. 

On the circle jerk thing, you are somewhat right on that. The facts of life are that circles form and they do usually just keep supporting their circle. This is a flaw of Steem's design though, because the idea of Steem is for complete strangers to get rewarded based on quality of work. I think it would be cool if upvoting the same people within a certain span of time would result in less rewards, in order to encourage spreading out your votes. 

Ultimately, I do believe that people should have the right to use their votes however they wish, including bots though. I believe vote power is property and what one does with it is their business. That is also why I was opposed to free downvotes, because I think that if you want to hinder someone's rewards you should be willing to lose as well. But no, after HF21 hugs cost mana but dick-slaps are free... 

That said, I wish there was a cap on how powerful an account could get. A fork of EOS did that, putting a cap on account influence. I am a big believer in the idea that social networks need to be an even playing field with less hierarchical structure. 

Sure there is the duplicate account issue. But Minds.com requires a phone number, which they don't know about because your phone number just gets turned into a hash by Ethereum and ties your account to a wallet. It would be cool if Steem did that, so that it was more difficult to have 100 accounts.

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While I don’t write about Steem I do read Steem related content quite often. And your articles are the ones that I read the most. 

It’s only natural for people to write about Steem related stuff on the Steem blockchain. And while I love seeing a diverse range of content on the blockchain, you are quite right that every day plastic content could be better suited to other platforms. 

i dont think too many people are writing about steem. I do think, however, too many of them make trending in contrast to any other type of post. why is this? because the people who tend to write about steem are whales, or wanna be whales. they know that writing about steem will get you large upvotes, compared to say, writing about what you just made from your hands and imagination. I don't mind people supporting good content. I do mind them being blinkered about it, and people upvoting only posts that will make them really good curation rewards, regardless of the worthiness of yet another post about the latest steem on-dit. By the fourth post about steem engines new update, it really ceases to become original material.

I don't think you can compare another post about steem to an original ed sheeran song. if you made that steem post into a song, even if ned sang it, i doubt that it would make anyones playlist.

I like that you have very clear ideas about Steem and your involvement with it. All what you have said makes sense. We have to adapt to what the market likes and how it likes it presented. The example about Ed Sheeran illustrates that. I do think that content discovery should be more aggressive by the orcas and whales. It would be a way to give back to the blockchain what the blockchain has given to them.

Oh man...this post is just five hours old, and already has 26 replies...*Cheeeezzzzzz* How the hell am I ever gonna read through them all to make sure I don't repeat the same response?!?!?!?!?!? I've already been on here for about five hours or so writing, curating and leaving comments; I'm almost *exhausted*…

Anyway... @whatsup … I agree with a lot you have to say here, and *NOT* just to be brown-nosing for a vote :>) *HeHe*… 

*Personally*...my experiences here since HF21/22 has *not* been as detrimental as feared by many of us, and with the advent of @newsteem in *attitude* and *action* by key members of the community, it appears that *this thing* is *working* in a positive way.

That's it for now my friend...I'm going to sleep (I think?)

When somebody points a finger at others it is too often to take attention from looking at them.
Just as promotion was pulled out a bid bot's ass to shut up the whiners, this too is likely originating in distraction from their own deficiencies.
They can't make 'good' content, so they lash out at who they perceive to be causing their problems.
Boo hoo! Work harder.

@whatsup,
One thing I am concerning more now, the tag and the content! Specially the tag #newsteem
$trdo

Cheers~

>A recent topic a lot of people are talking about is too many people writing about Steem.  I write about Steem a lot and here is why I am not going to stop.

This is the biggest missrepresentation of the argument ive ever seen. Its actually laughable. 

You make up and argument no one is arguing and try to present it as the opposing position. 
<b>Its intelectually dishonest and "fake news".</b>

Next time ping who is saying what so we know what youre arguing against. 

Strawmanning is easy.

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To my opinion, writing quality content about steem and steemit should be rewarded and normally people react to the new informaion about steemit in a positive manner

if you upload a good schnitzel recipe along with some flowers for decoration i will give you my 100% upvote :P

# Steem Fatigue

The biggest issue the platform has right now is the lack of just content consumers that are only that for non-Steem content. You have a platform full of content creators and those who are involved in the platform in other ways. This makes talking about Steem a big category for content to be consumed and rewarded. 

Over the long run as more and more content brings in views that are not about Steem. Content consummation for other stuff will rise and surpass it. 

You rarely see other platforms trending about itself 24/7 with a barrage of content a day after they grow as that kind of stuff is more relevant to just the content creators. Unless the users themselves are being affected by something like UI changes or bugs. 

Those who do still talk about such platforms usually evolve into drama or news information channels. Least we all know you have your bag of tea ready with drama tokens. Are you ready? Drama At 11 With Whatsup today we are talking about why time traveling cats suuuuck!

I myself am quite fatigued when it comes to any talk about the platform.  HF21 was this endless every day of it being jackhammered into my brain. I want to slap the next person who says those dirty words “New Steem.”

# When You Are Only About One Thing
There is also the other issue when people only talk about a certain topic face when they want to change things. They built an audience up for X and only the loyal core is going care about Y. So they see a direct drop-in their numbers over the long run when doing something else. Most struggle with that drop so they just keep doing the same old same old. 

 A big example of this can be seen in the gaming industry with Minecraft YouTube channels. While there is a bit of an upswing right now due to PewDiePie getting involved I playing that game. It has been on this massive decline for quite some time. 

YouTube channels that had millions of views per video could hardly get anything after a while. People, for the most part, moved on so they ended up with an ever-decreasing group that only wanted MC. 

Those content creators made the mistake of not diversify their content enough to build a brand that could switch over to something else and still have the kind of success they had with just a single game. 

The next group of content creators that are going has to face that hard in the gaming industry will be Fortnite. People built their entire careers around just a single game and when it falls out of favor they will keep going as that all they knew and all they ever have done. Till one day they wake up and realize those 20k live streams are now just 20 people.  

There is also a bit of a dirty secret for a lot of MC content creators they are SICK of the game it’s been their entire lives since early as 2011. They have done it all and then some.  The very thought of having to punch another tree to get wood or go mining for diamonds is depressing.  The issue’s for many of them it’s their only source of income and that scares them as it gets smaller every day. 

# I Try To Give Myself Lots of Room
Using me as an example while I mostly only talk about gaming I have left myself a very wide range of genres and types of content I can create. Along with with tossing in some non-gaming stuff as well like my monthly garden update. 

A big chunk of my gaming content was Path of Exile but it’s becoming a smaller and smaller part every new league till I now just have a set number of posts that get made.  I did not want to be just about Path of Exile and while I have some very kind and rewarding audience just for that they understand it’s only a small part of me these days. 


A bulk of my content is just game reviews.  While I did build up from Path of Exile being an ARPG I also branched out into rpg, survival, adventure, blockchain, collective card games, sci-fi, and even some industry topics. I used what I already had and moved forward. 


While my core wants game reviews and that tends to be where I get my biggest turnouts I knew better than to only do that even when I have so many genres people know I can be pulling from. 

I have in the past a number of times written fanfictions about my adventures in a game or even done guides and other content. This is not a very common occurrence and when I made my latest round of doing it for a game a lot of people were confused or did not like it at all. 

That new audience I had picked up since the last one was not aware or expecting it. Now it’s starting to grow on them.  So too will other stuff when I roll it out. I knew there will be push back. I knew I’ll get DMs from people not getting the content they want from me. I knew I need to give myself enough room to survive in the long term and not get bored out of my mind. 

I can only hope those that mainly talk about Steem are able to branch out and not become stuck on just that topic. Is that what they really want be talking about 10 years from now? HF20400 THIS IS THE END FOLKS!!!!!! NOT CLICKBAIT THIS TIME AGAIN.  


Those people I’m sure have a passion for other things in life. Yes it won’t be as popular as there Steem content when they start but why limit oneself to just being one thing. I sure don't even when my audience rolls their eyes at me. 

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