I think of it this way...the person who wrote the post took time to communicate with you, shouldn't we be willing to put at least one minute of time back to engage with their communication?
And to my point, especially if you feel you can't leave a quick comment anymore (which of course you should be able to do here and there) the spammers are already changing the way we have to operate, proving what a problem they are.
Not rewarding comment spammers does help and will help stop them, flagging them will also help. These actions will solve the spam issue by taking away their motive, which is the money.
I don't like the "circle jerk" so much myself, but I do see they have to motivate people to want to buy or retain STEEM. You're only going to buy $100K of STEEM (or $1K or whatever) if you know you're going to get your money back. The circle jerk makes people want to own STEEM, so while it can seem annoying, it serves a purpose, which is to make a market for the coin - a reason to own it.
I will rest on the "good post" part... I do not think we are that far off.
as for the circle jerk part,and buying steem, as anything you want value and not be like buying a new car and loosing 10% value as soon as you drive it off the lot,..lol..but cryptos are like stock,someone needs to loose for you to win,I do not buy that! I believe in sweat equity,you can produce your own value! that is what powers this platform , not the whales who had the privilege or opportunity to get in on the ground floor, they have made a killing!
when 90% wake up to the facts,the whales that are circle jerking are ripping them off worse than the "good job" spammers I bet it changes fast!
please do not get me wrong there are a lot of those whales from ground floor that do want the platform to succeed! and are putting a lot back into the platform to promote the minnows! I commend those people!
"Greed" is not "good", a maximum wage will cure inequity faster than minimum wage ever will or can.
feel free to write a post on that . I will gladly engage in the comments.
:-)
I hope you have a great day @trevorlyman.
please don not think I am being hostile or trying to fight. I hope my sense of humor come through.
Namaste!
I don't think you're being hostile but yeah we can wrap it up. Someone does not have to lose in order for you to win in stocks or crypto's. It certainly happens but it's not required. As for sweat equity, how do you think the person who invested their $100K got that money? It just came out of thin air? Someone had to work for it. And the actual value of the coin does not come from sweat equity, it comes from people putting money into the coin. Without people willing to buy the coin it would have zero valuer and there would be no possibility for sweat equity. Greed is good and a maximum wage won't help us in any way. We definitely see these things very differently! haha Oh well. Have a good day as well. Bye.