But payment is what makes this platform unique, don't you agree? without it I would use the much more stable and efficient reddit platform.
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But payment is what makes this platform unique, don't you agree? without it I would use the much more stable and efficient reddit platform.
I do agree with you and I also share your critique. My point is merely, that we might take a different point of view, which helps to overcome the initial frustrations, when going through the minnow-stage: if money is your motivation to write, so pleasure is something external, that you cannot control. You might be lucky and people upvote/like you from the start; most of the time, this is however not the case and we get ignored.
On the other hand, if you write for the sake of writing (and you consider upvotes/earnings as an additional pleasure), then pleasure becomes something endogenous.
But as I've said, I share your critique and I think the Steemit-developpers have to change the incentive-structure. What I'm proposing here is merely a psychological trick.