I'm not sure why this article was greyed out. It appears that you are with good intentions bringing up some points of contradictions that concern you. If you see these things other people will see them and perhaps that is why we are not growing super fast as originally anticipated. Sometimes what we think will happen doesn't and we need to reassess where we are and where we still plan to go. There is nothing wrong with being wrong as long as you make it right! Thanks for sharing some honest thoughts and let's hope the whole community can come together with solutions.
What you write is well considered and very interesting.
I think Steem was always going to be an oligarchy, but it is probably a better one than in the real-world because the rules are slightly clearer, and public.
One thing you have to credit the Steem 'government' with is for allowing change to happen. Certainly it may not always be the right change, but Steem doesn't seem to be stagnating in a conventional sense.
Whether the appropriate changes will be made to allow the platform to grow, or logical contradictions which lead to the externalisation of costs come to dominate remains to be seen I guess.
I'm interested in your ideas to address Steem's shortcomings as you see them. What other changes would you like other than witnesses not being able to vote? did I read somewhere a longer power-down period too?
I don't see how their relationship with the community can be worse than detached detachment, and this falls far short of enmity. It feels more like concerned detachment to me.
This is a very interesting article. I give the whitepaper authors the benefit of the doubt in so far as their intensions go, but of course most whitepapers, theses, and similar documents have their greatest practical use when printed on soft paper and wrapped around a cardboard tube :-) I am including my own graduate thesis in this assessment too. The real goods come in the execution, where the means by which a system adapts comes to be more important than the initial architecture, especially as more and more time passes since inception. The question for me is - does steemit have well defined goals and effective adaptivity?
Write only what you would have written otherwise. Do it for intrinsic value. If you happen to get a reward because of it, it was simply a reward for playing :)
I used to spend hours and hours creating content to share on other platforms for free because I have an innate desire to do so. Now I get to share it here and get rewarded on top of it! It's wonderful. The majority of people who are treating steem not as a social media platform but as a "job" or "work" are going to be sorely disappointed.
You mistake me for trying to teach you a lesson. If you want to treat it as a job (you sound disappointed in the blog) you may end up disappointed... I was simply stating my approach.
Hell, I approach all of my life as play and not work... But, that's just me.
I'm not sure why this article was greyed out. It appears that you are with good intentions bringing up some points of contradictions that concern you. If you see these things other people will see them and perhaps that is why we are not growing super fast as originally anticipated. Sometimes what we think will happen doesn't and we need to reassess where we are and where we still plan to go. There is nothing wrong with being wrong as long as you make it right! Thanks for sharing some honest thoughts and let's hope the whole community can come together with solutions.
What you write is well considered and very interesting.
I think Steem was always going to be an oligarchy, but it is probably a better one than in the real-world because the rules are slightly clearer, and public.
One thing you have to credit the Steem 'government' with is for allowing change to happen. Certainly it may not always be the right change, but Steem doesn't seem to be stagnating in a conventional sense.
Whether the appropriate changes will be made to allow the platform to grow, or logical contradictions which lead to the externalisation of costs come to dominate remains to be seen I guess.
I'm interested in your ideas to address Steem's shortcomings as you see them. What other changes would you like other than witnesses not being able to vote? did I read somewhere a longer power-down period too?
I agree, it seems that their self-interest may not always be the most enlightened, but I think enemy is inaccurate.
It's very lateral, but this article may give some ideas for how we can think about governance:
http://ijsaf.org/archive/15/3/bock_etal.pdf
I don't see how their relationship with the community can be worse than detached detachment, and this falls far short of enmity. It feels more like concerned detachment to me.
This is a very interesting article. I give the whitepaper authors the benefit of the doubt in so far as their intensions go, but of course most whitepapers, theses, and similar documents have their greatest practical use when printed on soft paper and wrapped around a cardboard tube :-) I am including my own graduate thesis in this assessment too. The real goods come in the execution, where the means by which a system adapts comes to be more important than the initial architecture, especially as more and more time passes since inception. The question for me is - does steemit have well defined goals and effective adaptivity?
How to win the game. A 1 step guide.
Write only what you would have written otherwise. Do it for intrinsic value. If you happen to get a reward because of it, it was simply a reward for playing :)
I used to spend hours and hours creating content to share on other platforms for free because I have an innate desire to do so. Now I get to share it here and get rewarded on top of it! It's wonderful. The majority of people who are treating steem not as a social media platform but as a "job" or "work" are going to be sorely disappointed.
You mistake me for trying to teach you a lesson. If you want to treat it as a job (you sound disappointed in the blog) you may end up disappointed... I was simply stating my approach.
Hell, I approach all of my life as play and not work... But, that's just me.
Awesome! Definitely, building a better system for all is actually in the best interests of the few "on top" as well!
Excellent, you wrote quite a great article and I hope that we can shed more light on the drawbacks and are able to design a better platform. :)
Thank you!