Please note that I am simply defending myself here, I was actually not aware that any of this was going on or being said until very recently. Not trying to stir up any more shit, I'm just trying to clarify some things. I'm posting this mostly for the sake of anyone else who is unaware of what's going on right now. I don't hate steemit as much as people might like to believe, I want us to have a better user experience in the future and don't want people to be surprised at what happens in the markets when certain things come to pass.
Quality is subjective, I wanted to help create some memes of decent quality, so I did. I eventually created an alt account when I read a post that I could and should do that. Maybe you're talking about some of my entries for writing contests? The writing, not the formatting, was the focal point of those posts, and, hey, not to brag or anything but I at least won or placed a few times.
I literally invited people to recommend charities to get voted on in my last UBI post. I am one person with one opinion and have not been here a long time so I asked people to help me out with that one. How my voting power would be divided up and used was detailed in another post.
I live under a bridge, so this one is true.
Do we even Upbit bro? Look at SBD volume on exchanges. Steem is a little better, but not by much. Please educate yourself on the Tether situation, their massive printing leading up to and accelerating in December and collusion with Bitfinex to raise prices, how the price skyrocketed after SBD/Steem were listed on Upbit near the end of November, how Upbit price action leads the rest of the market, yadda yadda so on and so forth.
Coinmarketcap's SBD volume
1 Upbit SBD/KRW $39,575,000 $5.32 95.20% Recently
2 Upbit SBD/BTC $1,047,560 $5.16 2.52% Recently
3 Bittrex SBD/BTC $916,809 $5.13 2.21% Recently
4 Poloniex SBD/BTC $30,671 $5.02 0.07% Recently
Some educational links
https://hackernoon.com/the-curious-tale-of-tethers-6b0031eead87
https://hackernoon.com/the-tether-effect-7310cbf5523f
I'm not saying that Steem or SBD don't have intrinsic value to the users here, I'm saying that the prices have become decoupled because of outside forces over which we have little control. I am simply trying to make users aware of these situations as they unfold. I believe that steemit users would be better served if they have this knowledge at their disposal, instead of being surprised as hell and wondering what happened if we simply ignore the issues and blindly cheer about prices being elevated.