basically. and this has been going on for a good long while. so long, that i've normally just stayed out of it because there's literally nothing most of us can do about it. sure, make a post. great. complain, great. but very few of us actually have any kind of power to realistically do anything about the decay of the platform in this particular instance.
shrug
it was fun for awhile. when you monetize something, someone will always find a way to scam the shit out of it and screw everyone else. if the platform won't make a correction to adjust for the garbage self-voting of comments on shit posts, then...why support the platform any more?
We should not stop supporting the entire Steem platform due to one problematic user. There are also thousands of users being supported in amazing ways for every one bad one who is abusing Steem.
it's not just the single bad user that's the problem, though...it's the lack of action from people that COULD actually prevent the bad user from abusing the system. those two things together are a powerful way to make the platform look and work in less than ideal ways.
Still doesn't mean we should stop supporting steem
i never said to stop supporting it...i was genuinely asking why, if the largest problems are never fixed, why one should continue supporting the platform. if the glaring issue is the one that seems to be the one most people are pissed off by, but the people who can fix it choose not to do so, then what does that say about the platform in general?
bottom line: it's not a good look and it turns a lot of people off. it certainly makes it harder to bring more people TO the platform when this kind of nonsense is pervasive.
Because it isnt a single easy problem that people are choosing to ignore - its a difficult problem that people are actively trying to solve. This thread is evidence that we are currently trying to fix it.