I am only here for two months, so what do I know? I get your irritation, I only agree with half of it. I see very good artists leave after a few days, I see battles about rewards and a lot nonsens I don't care about. But you know what? I see the same in the real world, and there it irritates me even more.
The other half is why I stay. Here I have a possibility to earn some money, I have found interesting people who share their knowledge, I have interesting conversations with them. I almost never look in trending, I find interesting people mostly in comments of people I already follow or in new.
I hate the begging and the spam, but even that is easy to find in real life.
I am sorry that you will be leaving but i understand. Being that frustrated isn't a situation you want to stay in.
Good post. If people don't like it, they can always start a Wordpress blog where they will work for nothing and probably have 0 visitors/subscribers to their blog for the first 6 months. People get easily discouraged here because they only earned 5 cents on a post that they wrote. Meanwhile, that is more than you can ever expect to earn on almost any other blogging/social media platform that ever preceded Steem. We have a great opportunity to get people in 3rd world countries to earn an income by posting content online. We have an opportunity to make hundreds/thousands of dollars. What would you get if you posted all of this on Facebook? ZERO YouTube? ZERO
This place can suck sometimes. Most of the content on here is crap. But if you watched all the youtube videos, tweets on twitter, facebook rants you would get a total pile of trash as well with a few diamonds in the rough.
oh that's why I can't upvote :D missed the timeframe, well he's still here :D he's still on the autobot vote, plus he never went out of his way to change anything or help the state of things aaaand he's still here :D
you are doing as well as myself and probably like most of the people with comments here. It is what it is and we can do what we can. It's still funny how many good people there are here and how easy it is to overlook them with all the noise going around, we aren't helping each other that much either, but that's another story.