Well, I don't remember ever personally attacking you.
I don't either and never said anything in my comment to entice that statement.
"victim" tone of your posts
I'm not playing the victim here. I'm quite satisfied with the rewards I get for my posts. My concerns are with onboarding and user retention because if those issues are being overlooked then they will only escalate and I would have wasted my time here because my concerns are not about my rewards for my posts. My concerns are about the future of this blockchain, steem as a currency and the social media aspect for onboarding the masses. If I'm losing confidence frankly I think it's better for me to say so rather than leave without filling out the survey you're currently asking for. This is that interview.
Just relax a little. It's okay. That said, this is an open forum.
Please don't read this in the whiney tone from your imagination. I'm stating facts now. You complain that I compain. Then you say it's an open forum, meaning I should complain if I want to. Do you see your contradiction?
it could be true that the reasons you outlined are the reasons for these people leaving.
You have a tendency to read things that are not written. I said that the power holders should probably take a little bit of responsibility for the satisfaction of the users. I did not outline multiple reasons users are leaving, though I do know there are lots of reasons. I never claimed any one reason to be the reason.
Do you have something that shows that these users left because of the bots, by the way?
Again, I never said "users are leaving because of the bots". Please read posts and comments twice before replying.
A wonderful display of WYSIWYG - thank you @beanz for the rational and straight forward logic you present - the people who point out flaws are not necessarily whiners - it seems that any hint of non-conformity to the 'I love steemit' mantra is met with passive aggression. I can see that you love steemit, as do I; though it is in beta, it could be better, as I have said a few times now.
I have been critical of Steemit in the past, even made an entire review post, and only received positive feedback.
But it's obviously important that voicing critical opinions of Steemit won't be shunned by the community.
Are you suggesting a diminishing return? Or may I feel that you have some empathy with my expression? The latter I hope - it would be nice to feel one can have a voice in "social" media
Sorry, I was unclear. First, I talked about the stuff I've read from you in general. Then I said this is an open forum, so you're allowed to say whatever you want. That was my point. It was actually designed as the opposite of an attack.
What is it that you would like to see? Right now. Can you give a concise "beanz's roadmap"?
Sure :)
But obviously the road map would have nothing to do with the whales and how they use their power. - as said I have no control of that and would only hope they take user retention more seriously.
Beanz over enthusiastic roadmap lol
...I won't be too disappointed if most of this is not on the map though lol.
Some sort of "gamification" of new user rewarding could be a good thing. Any ideas? Maybe there could be an additional reward for upvoting a new low rep user, whose post becomes successful. But it should be designed in such a way that it wouldn't be abused.
If all new users just get upvoted, it again goes against the idea of what a lot of people view Steemit as.
But I do agree that some sort of encouragement for new users could be a good thing. It just can't bee "free rewards just because you're new".