It's OK man, dan is a busy man, and sweetssj earned the "STEEM Effect" (what you call the echo chamber is actually a feature not a bug of STEEM) because she showed up first and the bots latched on to her because there was nobody else around.
STEEM is just a another blockchain being mined into existence at 10% per year, and everyone wants a piece of the freshly minted coins.
Yes, it's true that selfish mining exists on all chains. It just so happens that STEEM lets non-computer geeks like her to get a following of both humans and bots alike. Social media is all about increasing your following. We are all stars, just trying to gain more followers and likes. People compete on Facebook and Twitter to earn a following even though they don't earn as much as her.
We don't earn as much as Furion because he is more popular than us.
Look at the e-steem guy, busting his ass, and someone else is making $50 per day for photos. But so what, STEEM is not ALL about blogging, it's just another blockchain with selfish miners and a tiny overall community that just so happens to allow anyone to freely post anything immutably.
If you care how much you are making on a post, then that's your issue. But the fact is that if you are already popular like Berwick or Shrem, then you WILL MAKE MONEY GUARANTEED.
Becoming popular is what it is all about. Look at what Bitcoin Jesus 1.O just did for DASH now that he finally got tired of waiting 40 minutes for his bitcoins.
Your criticism of STEEM is great. The community appreciates it, but they are obviously not as willing to throw their STEEM power behind it like I am.
Jesus,
Bless me, for I have sinned.
I must have, because look at what I earned on my first post, and many of my early ones, in fact nearly all of them, before I began to try to program against Steemd's totally fucked API and dare to ask questions.
My sin was trying to expand the steem ecosystem by building a desperately needed set of tools.
If I cared what I earned on a post, then I'd not have ever began to criticze this platform, because it's the clear third rail of the way that this platform is set up.
Dude, you wouldn't even be here if you didn't care about the community, and we do love you. Dan is mortal, and obviously deficient in many matters as are we all. Your help is appreciated, but due to the low price of STEEM, most of those around here are being mad selfish. This behavior was present in BTS and every community so some degree. It's human nature.
I wish that the API was cleaner and more intuitive. Yeah, dan made a nice chunk o cash here to purchase a team that is going to hang around longer than his last one (BTS), and many leeches are still sucking the life out of his creations (BTS miners just agreed to double their salaries). Greed is everywhere but you can't blame them because it is born out of a desire to survive. Just how much money do you need before you never need to upvote yourself again?
King of kings and Lord of lords,
Oh, we surely all are deficient-- myself included. I'm not blaming Dan at all-- I totally want to involve him in our work if it's at all possible. Dan had the balls to conduct a real-world experiment with real-world magic internet money, and since I'm about to do something similar, well, I can say that it's "not the easiest thing in the world."
As for how much money I need, the current answer is, quite strangely, zero. I have so much fun working on Dawn and learning the dynamics of starting a company and blokchain systems and cryptoeconomics that half the time I don't know what day it is. Really, all this really is that much fun.
There are miners on Bitsares? Since when?
Amen
And here's fact: Dawn will always have Steem DNA, and @officialfuzzy DNA in it, and I'm always going to tell the story that way, too. We've thrown our own DNA into it as well, to create what we hope to be a powerful mutated three parent baby that lives for a thousand years.
And what baby wants is for Daddy blockchain to let it speak to it natively. Baby is very afraid that daddy will just make more undocumented API changes to the groundbreaking integrations that @baabeetaa has cooked up. VERY AFRAID.
Miners, witnesses, potatoes, potatows, semantics, whatever, a 2x pay increase is more than the pink slips my friends are getting, be glad, you are in the industry you are in... The magic internet money business. Others call them blockchains, but we don't make fun of the way others talk. But then again, attention to detail is a requirement for a blockchain (currency) designer like you. I hear you all the time on the Fuzzy Bear Show on Fridays, so I know that you are in the right place. You're an addict like the rest of us.
The uncertainty that Dan creates as he turns on a dime is exactly what it is. He is the artist, and STEEM is his muse. Dawn is yours, I have mine, in fact, this is exactly the one thread that everyone on Fozzie's show has (an addiction to their creations).
Do your own thing, the world is watching.
Most precious Jesus, son of Aliens,
Surely, we shall do our thing and eternally endeavor to do it well, as you eternally endeavor to reconnect with the mothership, stranded here on earth like some mere conehead.
Amen
When faddat actually builds something finalized and working...ill be stunned. Sincerely hope he will stun me...but lets just say as i see all these other devs doing amazing stuff with steem in recognition that it is IN BETA, and hear faddats constant complaints...i really tend to believe hebwont build anything. Would i like him to prove me wrong? Well 90% of whatever he would build would have been my idea...so if he cuts me in and gives me credit for the idea when he has proven he can build it, great. I SEVERELY doubt anyone working with faddat is going to end up with anything but tears though. At least this has been my terrible experience....an experience i would have never had working with someone like @good-karma or @jesta. You know ....people who build what they say they will and DONT MAKE EXCUSES why "its too hard".
Oh and i have a pretty decent sized list of others who will back my claims , btw...cause it seems many have walked the trail of tears before me.
No faddat. You lost all your votes the minute people started seeing you as a scammer who couldnt do what I paid you well to do. You hurt me and my rep...even though dan literally thanked me and my ideas as inspiration for the creation of this project. Rather than work with me you chose to make nothing but excuses and blaming others. Yiu can blame others but i can give u a decent sized list of people who could build what YOU SAID you could build. They lost respect for u taking money and failing hard (because u hadnt even researched when u claimed you could do it).
As @steemjesus says, people gain a following and that following can give them money via upvotes. There will be people who become wealthier than others...guess what same will happen with ANY other platform. You unwillingness to honestly talk to this point sucks.
Dont give faddat money. @faddat please get a real job thst pays you for real work. And PLEASE STOP ASKING PEOPLE TO JOIN YOUR TEAMS FOR 1000000S OF PROJECTS. STOO ASKING THEM TO RISK EVERYTHING AND MOVE ACROSS THE WORLD TO WORK ON PROJECTS THEY WILL ONLY END UP FINDING OUT YOU GAVE UP ON.
The trail of tears will be long for those who get entwined in your bullshit. I feel for them...and wish you would stop. Im beginning to think you never will.
You accused me of having given up on DAWN. I don't know why, though. Many around me, did, but I surely haven't. Listen to yourself man.
On one hand, accusing me of giving up on my projects. On the other, telling me to give up on my projects.
I won't stop, and I'm not bullshitting.
Regarding what you wanted and paid me to build, I can say nothing other than "sorry man, there are API issues."
You will understand better what I am talking about when you try to build against steem. Hopefully, I will be successful soon. I've not given up on the project you paid me for, or anything else.
In short: No, I refuse to slink away into some corner somewhere and die.
G'day mate!
many abandoned you because they went to see how much work you had done on projects they thought you were working on...and found that you hadn't done hardly any coding!
God just work and prove me wrong man! Instead of wasting peoples time!
Hundreds of commits went into the work that I did for you re: ingestron. But let me set the record straight here man:
I haven't abandoned shit.
People may have abandoned DAWN, and may have abandoned me. For various and sundry reasons. WHile that sucks, such is life.
I HAVE NOT ABANDONED DAWN
I never said you did. But where is the proof? Again words. I simply have to warn people who put money in that they should wait to see something. I think it is fair considering the blame you place on steem for everything.
Proof:
Look at the repositories. Look at beyondbitcoin.org. From what's there, tell me where to take it. Currently working on filtering by tag.
you have had the answer to that for some time. we even had a page with all the specs. Hell if you recall i even told you that you could create your own chain to do it, but it still needed to work with steemit and/or bitshares or it was no deal.
This is why i am concerned...I shouldnt have needed to tell you after we did the google doc other than to clarify a few things here or there as to how i wanted it. instead we are here...
Jesus,
Have mercy, for I may sin again.
Now I sin:
The community (specifically highly placed whales and individuals connected to or employed directly by steemit, inc.) doesn't just not-upvote my criticism, they've flat out told me on multiple occasions that it's not wanted.
Jesus, I must sin once more:
Please Lord and Savior of Steemit, join us for our third testnet or in our chat at: https://discord.gg/8dWYbFS
Learn a new religion, my Savior.