I find it painful all this is happening at a time I don't have enough time to write a science post because of my exams. This is really something that hurts.
Whenever I call @samminator and it happens that we talk about steemSTEM, the major thing we talked about is the sense of entitlement people show towards steemSTEM.
The time I joined steemit, I wrote science posts without having a touch or something valuable on the post. Although my posts were not as defined as they are now but at least they were scientific. FInding @suesa was one thing that made me feel lucky. She introduced me to steemSTEM.
In steemSTEM, I wrote my science posts, read a few others from better authors to step up my game and be a better person. If steemSTEM voted me, I used to be happy because I saw it as a priviledge not an entitlement. For God sake, I didn't invest in steemSTEM to believe I deserve to be voted everyday.
Aside from seeing the upvote as an entitlement, saying a wonderful post was not voted by the steemSTEM curators is an insult to them. Having 19 people search for quality science posts, read them, check for plagiarism and copyright violation, disqualification from curie vote, and other things that might be involved is more like a selfless to the community and we still insult them by claiming we are entitled to votes we didn't pay for or by even saying they didn't see our post.
I appreciate the steemSTEM community and the curators because of the huge effort they put into this platform. This is a reason I take it upon myself to send them a token once in a while because I feel they deseerve to be appreciated and I know they also have a private life to manage and of course, some of them have works that they do outside steemit too.
If there's one thing steemSTEM has always emphasized, it is that this community is set out to give visibility to quality STEM related post and not to enrich writer's pockets. I now wonder how most people have become oblivious of that..
If steemSTEM is taking a break, I think it's well deserved. A restructuring is necessary for the betterment of this community!
Live long, steemSTEM!!!
Thanks for your message! SteemSTEM will live long if the community wants it. Let's see on the long run :)