Thanks a lot for taking the time to respond @apolymask. Your input and opinions mean a lot to me and I am always happy to hear them.
Of course I have decided to stick around and this is because as you say there is no way of knowing yet whether this platform is a positive or a negative in the long term and whilst my initial reaction was to walk away from something I couldn't trust, I have spoken with others about it and their positivity and dedication to ensuring that steemit is a positive has led me to the decision to stay and help make sure that this becomes the case but I must also admit that the initial outlook isn't good if the majority of the decision making power lies with only a few members at the top which seems to me to be the way it is now. Why can't someone just coming into steemit have the same voting power as anyone else?
Thanks again buddy! Wish I had more time to respond a bit more but I'm a bit busy today.
Hope you are having an excellent day yourself my friend!
Good question, I've been thinking about this for a while now. I'm not sure I understand all the dynamics enough and the model does concern me.. I see people making like thousands of dollars for somewhat trivial posts and I'm making like less than a dollar per post posting about some really interesting stuff.. It's frustrating in that respect.
Though it does appear as if they are moving toward more fairness, I hear the next hard fork which I think is in a couple days or really soon is suppose to increase regular peoples voting power. I think in time we'll be able to improve this system and make it better, though.. If there's a social media that comes out that is even more fair, I would use that one as well.
For now this is still way better than the other ones, and maybe it will become even more fair in time as well.
Thanks for the well wishes and same to you! Glad you're not quitting. :) You're one of my favorite people on here.
Thank you @apolymask! That means a lot to me buddy! You are also one of my favourite people on here because you post about what you want to post about and share your thoughts honestly rather than posting things that you think will be popular and make you lots of rewards. :)
Hopefully the hardfork will make everything at least a bit fairer. From what I am hearing it should do!
Always good to hear from you my friend and I understand how hard it is to keep up with comments and stuff. I'm starting to find it difficult myself and I don't have anywhere near the amount that I'm sure you have to deal with! :)
Hope your day is going great my friend!!
Look forward to speaking again soon!