RE: New Ad Slogan: Steemit... Where The Rich Get Richer!

The supporters of it seem to think that it isn't a problem because most people don't make much more than 75% on their posts anyways. Since the 75% will still apply then they feel it will have minimal impact on the smaller accts. On the other hand, the larger accts get upwards of up to 90% because they can grab early curation.

I'm not convinced this is going to work, but they seem adamant that it will. I encourage you to think it through and form your own conclusion. I would hate to be the reason that someone left steemit and it turned out I was wrong (or looking at it from a narrow view).

Personally I don't like the idea of any money leaving my posts... I think the money should stay either with the author or the curators. I also don't like the idea of further "gamifying" the way in which things are done (it seems like a lot of rules already).

Please let me know your thoughts and its nice to meet you. I agree with your mission statement too, so I hope if you stick around to learn more and maybe find a way to help you out with your mindset!

I think the real reason I might leave is the frustration that :

there is little interaction (you need writers but also readers)
steemit,inc doesn't do much to promote creation(no writing/photography/drawing/music/podcast/... contests)
no sense of community, like reddit
no one reference steem content outside
and I won't even start on the blockchain side( low decentralization, full nodes, security,...).

I have been here for a while so I had time to see the directions steemit, inc pushes, when they do anything at all. I will be totally fine forbidding self vote for instance. I don't look much at the money part, even I am happy to make cash doing fun things. I remember how in the beginning I decided to not buy steem and to earn my way up. I value much more the interaction I have and that is what I will miss if I leave, not my payout and easy money.

I tried to work on helping communities around here. The basic idea was that you could automatically vote for some tags of communities you are part off because generally speaking there is no point saving your vote and you know the content is good. My goal was to make a website to let average users do that and in the mean time build a program using the Steem API then burn some steem to rent some SP and help some communities. But I run out of funds and had to stop my bot. I hope I can start again soon.

I guess I would like the focus to switch a bit here. Steem is not a good social network yet so let's work on that.