A long-time bond is not a scam and exists in the real world too. Long-time savings accounts are a pretty standard offering anywhere.
You have a choice: If you believe in the platform, keep the Steempower. If you need liquidity or are a continuous trader/speculator, use Steem. If you want something stable long-term with slight interest, keep the Steem Dollars. If none of these applies, convert into any other crypto-currency you like or (god beware!) cash out to fiat at last.
i do believe in the platform..the idea is cool but i feel theres so many things that need to be changed before i even consider investing... my only problem is people getting paid to flag.. flag system should be changed.. like maybe warning first flag.. if a user gets 3 or more flags then they get a penalty or rewards taken..instead currently all it takes is one pissed off emo whale to fuck up someones day by flagging them.. its lame! and if you think thats fair your probably a bagholding emo whale lulz.. if anything if you want to flag someones post you should have to pay steempower.. having steem power gives you the power to silence someone.. thats too much power people..to much power and then theres abuse.. hope you realize this.. also curators should have some type of powers .. authors shouldnt be able to flag a curator. if anything if a curator decides to no longer support your post there should be some kind of cause and effect .. if a person is the first person to write on the post they should be rewarded! none of this bull shit pick and choose curator bull shit the whales are only letting thier whale friends eat! i develop video games and i know broken shit when i see it.. lol this site has and will have many users abusing it at its current state because they dont have a fair system in place yet..and all the flaws.. i get it its still in beta cool.. but im not investing shit untill i see real improvements in this system.
or since we only get 4 post a day why not only limit the flags to 4 flags a day ;d we got idiots on here with so much steem power they are flagging the lowbies and making them disapear literally on steem.. stupid vengeful emo whales with nothing better to do.
limit the flagging can stop people from flagging someones whole blog.. and might stop some of the abuse.. but what ever i dont run this shit hole.. just my two satoshi
whats the point of having a curator? isnt it the point of the curator to be the first one to and maintain the post and support the post and the author??? or am i missing something.. which is why they are rewarded in the fucking first place? so if the author can just flag the curator .. what use is the curator really? lol so how is it the author can flag the curator for simply supporting and maintaining the posts.. what a load of horse shit.. if thats the case the curator isnt even needed for the post to go live in the first place.. it would be different wouldnt it if the author actually needed to acquire X amount of curators for the post to even go live... in some kind of mutual benefit how it was meant to be but hopefully people can see the flaw in the way things are currently on steemit... what ever im done ranting fuck off.