I'm going to speak from the heart on this one because I would so much like to see Steemit succeed. I still consider myself new (being here little over 1month) and realistically I would have probably left weeks ago except I got a reward on a couple posts. The money is cool, well getting bitcoins is pretty cool, I still haven't cashed them out and don't plan to, but If I didn't get a reward, I wouldn't hang around long. If there were only $1 rewards I probably wouldn't hang around either, even if I make more here than posting on Reddit I don't care. There has to be MORE to this site than just making money to keep me and probably other new people from showing up and posting.
INTERACTION
There is an absolute Minimal interaction between users. I rarely get 1comment on my postings, weather it makes 0 cents or 20$ maybe 1 comment. It gives the impression that nobody gives a shit! Oh but if this guy @dantheman makes some crazy posting about god knows WTF he was talking about, everyone and there god-damn crazy uncle come crawling out of the woods to make a comment.
Seriously, it looks retarded.
What looks more retarded is to get paid when nobody even cares. Pretty much I understand that after 1month here there are these curation groups that go around and up vote shit without even reading them. I probably have been hit by them, and I guess the sole purpose has been reached by keeping me here, but honestly I don't like it. Yeah I like the payout, like I said, without it I would be gone. But I personally think that it just looks stupid when a post gets $20 and nobody even bothers to make a comment... or maybe 1 person comes by, makes a quick comment and never shows back up.
IS THIS SOCIAL MEDIA OR A CULT?
By now, I doubt 1 person has even made it this far in my post but if you have, in order to provoke you to make a comment, I will give the first 3 people that reference this part by saying "CULT" and I will give you 1 steem. Yeah just like that, as a test to see if anyone even reads the post.
But realistically, a social media shouldn't have to operate this way; it’s not really a social media site at all. Just a small group of people that engage with each other and the rest are left wondering what the hell is going on.
It feels like a cult organization and I have said that from early on and my thoughts haven't changed. The Idea behind a social media is to be social. Sure you don't know who I am and I don't know who you are but making connections to masses is a big deal. I'm not sure if anyone agrees with this but
Social media is about being Social...
Maybe I've lost you but if you’re still hanging on, I have one more section to consume your time with.
SOCIAL PROFILE
Where is it??? How can a Social Network even call itself Social when you don't even have a social profile with demographic and other boxes to fill in with random bullshit to tell the world who you are!?
I see we just got avatars. But the pictures are so tiny you cant even get a feel of what the people look like, Obviously the avatar could be just a tiny big larger.. don't you tink?
Chatting and Messaging is key to a social network since 1950. Even before computers people messaged eachother, and ever since Myspace there was messaging. WTF. For real? Yeah, I have heard of rocketchat, but that is rediculus to have to go over there for a 1995 chatroom. Nobody wants that anymore! The only people that still go on chat rooms are those child molestors you find on Dateline. What is needed is a In-Steemit.com messaging system. That would be awesome! I'm just shocked that after being opperational for 6months that this hasn't been done yet. Please tell me I'm not the only one wanting this. Even a Profile message board would be cool for now. Something for users to engage with the people they are following.
Basically there is no user profile besides The user Wallet.
Back to the money problem. The only profile people care about is the wallet and how big they can grow it. Yeah, I noticed @dantheman has a shit load of SteemPower like a baller, but some of his shit sounds like he pounded some heroin and has been blown out listening to Hendricks’s. But fuck why not, getting paid 100+ for getting fucked up and spilling your tripped out thinking to the world is pretty awesome.
But it looks bad and even rediculus that the people with large amounts of Steem are being rewarded with larger amounts of Steem no-matter the post. This place is the Literal "Rich get Richer" in full effect.
Back to the social profile. Wait, we found that. The wallet... Ok good.