As many others, I just came to know about Steemit platform, and quickly discover to be quite passionate about blog-posting and blog-curating good content. I found many interesting, thought-provoking and well-written articles, and suddenly realized there is incredible value in this around here.
I am not talking -only- about financial value. I am talking about human-value.
Undeniably, there is HUGE human-value stored in this community. And moved by that, I tried to understand Steemit platform as deeply as I could.
After few weeks waiting to have my free account, I kept reading about Steemit, and while posting and waiting for readers to notice my content -and luckily voting me up- I also learn that there are plenty of "Devils in the Details" lurking around.
For example, I became aware that SteemPower is actually something extremely important for this community-platform. A vote from someone with large enough SteemPower -lovely called "The Whales" by almost all Steemers- is able to assure you good payout for your content. Moreover, a Powerful Whale downvote is able to rip out your post, acting as a kind of "selective censorship" which I think should be more widely discussed by the community.
I also became aware of the voting bots, that -from my current understanding- are ripping off the community gains, acting to concentrate SteemPower at the hands of few. That problem might have already become large enough to be ignored.
Those are the two main concerns of mine, which I'm trying to reason about. Censorship is important to keep improving general-content quality, but the community has to position itself about the possibility of censoring truly solid content only based on Holy Whale votes.
About the voting-bots, I imagine they can be dealt with by denouncing + banning them. One by One. That is for sure a massive job, but certainly, one that could be done by the massively-active Steem community, which I am sure will thrive when the fighting-time comes.
That would require some active-positioning from Steemit developers (and Witnesses), which I hope to happen soon, bringing more credibility to the entire platform and the main communitarian-ideas driving it.
I hope this post gets no whale downvote : )
and wish it to be a seed for interesting discussions on the comments section.
If some of you know interesting discussions about those themes, please, leave the link below.
b.b.