In Steemit there is not about content but about your wallet, the bigger it is the more popular you are. Popularity and influence is there available for purchase and once you have purchased it you can become popular. To make the long story short. Rich can become more rich. Steemit will need to find a solution how to encourage people to be creative and how to be fair and reward the quality. Right now it seems that the only inspiration and motivation is the SP.
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Well yeah I see that but in that sense its exactly like USD.
It's already encouraging people to be creative, you get rewards.
Rewards=SP=money. People are more encouraged how to be creative in the hunt for the $ than how to create a good quality content. Someone with 10k + in the account who is randomly rewarding 2 or 3 commentators with 100% upvote will be crowded. That popularity doesn't come because of his work and quality but because of his wallet. And this is something that in a long run is pulling back the creativity cos creativity is less rewarded than touching the big ones.
You must believe that touching the big ones doesn't require creativity.
Indeed, It is actually killing the creativity. Why would someone put effort if that is not rewarded or less rewarded than just following a current. Of course not all people are same, thanks God, but Steemit in order to be more fair and successful in a long run will have to address some issues, also related to rewarding system and distribution of power.
Well makes no sense to continue, we have different view about the community.
Just short about distribution of power only based on SP, should be also on karma. I see this as an vulnerability to the system, only money gives you power and if you have bad intentions you can work against the system once you have purchased your power and influence in the market.