RE: Is Steemit In An Economic and Social Death Spiral??

G'day. Wow! What a powerful post. Articulated perfectly.

At the end, I actually had a good laugh at the irony of it!
The quality of the content and the resulting volume and quality of the responses is ACTUALLY what Steemit should be all about.

Human individuals actively interacting with each other to raise issues, voice their opinions and work towards solutions whilst at the same time, rewarding each other for their efforts!

Just a short while ago, I commented on another post which seems very relevant to here as well, so I'm going to copy it here (shock - horror, this is the first time I've copy / pasted on Steemit .... Lol)

Here it is:
"G'day, The way I see it, there are very specific concepts of Steemit that are very important but not realised or understood by a lot of people on here.

From my perspective, this is what I find important:

Take the time to actually read posts that interest you and just scan through the rest.
Once read, leave a meaningful comment that reflects the time the person spent putting it together.
If the post impressed you, reward the author with an upvote. (I only focus on good quality articles that interest me so all my upvotes are at 100% or I don't vote at all)

To me it just seems that not enough people take the time to put some effort in.
There is too much auto-voting, bot voting, soliciting, begging and plain spamming, taking away from the core values of Steemit.

You seem to support the same principles as I do, so keep pushing out the quality articles and rewarding where you see fit. Well done!"

I could have changed a few things to better align it to here but I thought it was better to leave it as it was.

Thanks for the opportunity to contribute. I hope in some way it makes a small difference.