RE: Dear Power Peeps, Did You Learn Anything You Would Apply If Given A 2nd Chance?
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customer support/relations?
What is that on steemit? Where is it on steemit? Who is it on Steemit?
No one knows, I don't think it exists.
After realizing that nobody with any power cared (or weren't listening), I stopped offering tough but constructive advice.
While what I offered was more of opinion as a user, yeah, pretty much gave up on that. No ears on the receiving side. I still remember there POLL about downvotes, 32 hours old, poll closed the vast majority agreed with it. Yeah vast in their minds was less than 0.00002% of the active people on steemit or there about at my uneducated guess.
Steemit, not stem block chain, is a neighborhood bully, and an unconcerned governing body. I know they will deny it, but when it only takes two people to decide the witnesses, well, not good.
I think the two top witnesses voters should un vote all the people they are currently voting for and recuse themselves from witness voting for two years, just to see what an organic set of witnesses would look like.
lol yes my point exactly on the customer relations @bashadow!
and couldn't agree more about the witnesses... I think they think they are giving the "appearance" of giving people a voice, but fail to realize that the people will eventually learn the truth. While of course it gave them a brief bit of success when they fooled enough people, in the end it will always come back when people see the flaws inherent in the reality (vs the perception they would like people to believe).
I do think their fear of not trusting their users is behind the issue, but unless they take that plunge they will continue to wane IMO. And for the record, I don't think the answer is for them to be completely hands off either. I think "engagement"by the power peeps with all levels is very important. And they have to have BALLS when they see things that are clearly wrong. Shit, any of us could go into separate rooms and make a list of our top 20 grievances; and I bet you we have 15 in common across the board. It doesn't take genius to recognize this, it takes a willingness to learn and accept that you don't have all the answers.
Internet anarchy does not work. The decentralized myth does not work. Hands off does not work. Rule by fear, or force does not work. They must be learning something, but they still fear the people.
Guidance by just simply stating this is what we think is best, but it is your platform also, so what do you think? The 'alliance fund' distribution, and this new 'Delegation Committee' they just came out with, is all to say this is what "we have given you a voice", talk to them, complain to them, Fall out teams, steemit's own personal fall out shelters I feel. What is the difference between the two, more red tape, not sure they have thought this out at all. It just seems like more smoke and mirrors to me.
So we have @steemalliance, (the steemfoundation), the 'Delegation Committee', and steemit, Steem Block chains own little Triad. Future denial plausibility built-in system, it's not our department go talk to-blah blah.
Still if they could open their ears to the users needs and wants they would see that we and us and them are really not at odds with each other, we all want steem block chain to survive and thrive. In a lot of ways Steem Block Chain is thriving, it is just steemit that is not. I still use the steemit front end, a few others still use it, but a lot of people are moving to the other front ends, steempeak seems very popular right now. They are listening to their users wants and needs, and making changes to how the content is displayed and viewed. (my wife uses it, so I get kept up to date on why I should switch). I am thinking about it. Busy was up and coming, I am not sure where they are now, or partiko, prices may have something to do with their lack of news, I don't really know much about the other ones.
I think onboarding by the alternate front ends is going to be the turn around for steem block chain, I think steemit can see that, and are in preservation mode, they may have left beta, but they are still in the we don't know what direction we are taking mode, so they are pulling themselves apart.
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I did not word that part very well I should have put the steemfoundation in parenthesizes (the steemfoundation). I hope I did not confuse to many people, I will go back and edit that.
you confused me a little, but frankly I got the gist of your point... The bottom line is your points are informative and should be listened to by those that want to know how their changes will be received. You have always been on the lookout for the little guys, and honestly its the little guys that add up when they want to see growth.
And glad your wife is keeping you in the loop, that's great... its always good to have another pair of eyes! :)