Steemit my first love. There are things to be said that would make a blog post on the problem with steemit.
Equality. I joined steemit when the fork of equality was just concluded, and never in my minds eye or physically did i see such equality. I think the first place the failed in the equality aspect is the maintenance of the score number of reputation that obviously separates the newbies from the oldies.
This is the problem, in the mind of those who have acquired atleast a reputation of 50 and above, we feel that those below are not worthy being seen or talked to, creating an unspoken sense of superiority between the two worlds.
Now these persons below in other to impress the seeming gods of the platform try to conform to the standard being set by the oldies, losing themselves for cheap upvotes and attention. This is why it will be insane taking people away from fbk, because on creating a new account, you are given a level playing ground with the old members, which inturn aids for a sense of belonging and expression.
I keep on saying it, steemit is not a platform that encourages new users. And the effect of this is that once these new users are in and try to struggle to keep pace, but no result, they will leave and the room will be all to those who feel the platform belongs to them.
I have been some worth disenchanted from the platform lately because of the ass licking attitude expected from those below, which i cant keep up with. The truth is, the crypo world is insane and massive, and until the steemit community find a means to encourage new users, it will be a site where the rich keeps getting rich.
Steemit should borrow a leaf from the bitcoin community.
you said a lot of good points. I think a new dept is being formed to help new users, like a service dept. Maybe you can help them...
I will be most obliged. Thanks for your services to the community.