I don't understand why it's bad to cash out steem... I only set up a steemit account so I could upvote good TAs like this guy and Haejin. I think it's a great way to incentivize people to keep up their great work. I think of Litecoin for example. I don't HODL much litecoin, I buy it to xfer out of my Gdax quickly to buy other alts. It serves a good purpose--but I don't see myself ever using LitePay for example. I feel a similar way with Steem, I don't mind purchasing steem and loading my account a little to reward people for their good work, but if they cash it out I could care less. I think the liberty to cash out attracts people to make Steem accounts. If the idea of some Steem community (which I don't even understand what that means) were a really great idea, then it will be successful. You were very polite in your comment just now. But man, I see people like Bernie Sanders, and some of his weird followers who make a point to curse and swear and post hateful things because they don't think Haejin or others are good for the Steemit community--and as an "outsider" it just makes the "steemit community" look weird. Can you help me understand what is meant by this concept of the steemit community? Or why keep steem inside steemit? I do want to understand. Thanks and sorry for the novel.
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Very good points. I'm just like you and I upvote almost every one of Phil's posts for this very reason.
It's not inherently bad to cash out Steem and it's great if content creators can monetize their content here. It's just that if they do that without paying their respects to the community for being able to monetize on the platform, some big Steemit fans such as myself can be left feeling a little sour. I'm a big believer of incentivizing people to create constructive comments on your posts and when people do so I'm always happy and upvote them for it. Then again, I don't provide as much value as Phil. :D