Well I'm a heavy VC guy in tech and I have founded lots of tech projects and got a few Cayman crypto projects. Until I started using STEEMIT I was impressed with some unique things about the community. I'm not impressed with a 1 post 1 day account going to 35 Rep.
I'm not impressed with the obvious BOTS praising high rep accounts saying they saw a video that has no views on a 3rd party site.
The big problem with any social tech platform is it's organic natural growth and right now I'm seeing a few players controlling everything here.
Nothing wrong with that, but the public needs to know before they invest sweat into this community that the game is stacked.
I'm sure there's quite a few people here making what to many is a nice amount of coin, it's not to me, I'm more interested in the value of the project and if it's 99% bots like most of the net it has little VC value to me and I sure will have to pull back my public praise of STEEM and STEEMIT.
So I personally still 'like' the idea, but the reality is starting to hit me, this is a very controlled game here.
A whale or player blesses a new player they can make minor coin (6 figures) but the real players will be reaping the VC reward as the coin goes from 1 Billion to 10 then 100 BILLION BUCKS.
So when a new user comes into the game and in 1 day and 1 post goes 10 up in Rep I say BULLSHIT it's manipulated
Just like when the rockstar of STEEMIT who is @papa-pepper has a ton of comments praising a video that no one has seen, it stinks to me.
I'm 100% sure @papa-pepper is real, but the army of bots upvoting him to profit and praise his videos that have no views makes me laugh.
So the fake comments and upvotes by bots on @papa-pepper and now this hand picked account are just two obvious RED FLAGS the game is stacked.
Which is fine, a lot of money can be made in a stacked game if you're one of the stackers.
This site obviously needs REAL COMPELLING content and also a way to monetize it to attract more players into a stacked game.
I'm concerned though by the real players trying to build something of value when the value is centralized and controlled by the few here.
So if Marco is real or not is not really the point, it's how this account was blessed to become a star attraction so fast.
That is my concern what accounts are hand picking what new accounts to shine trending power on.
It's still early in this game, 700K users of which 7K to 70K is real is still a lot of players.
But the 700K is BULLSHIT.
That's fine, tons of projects had fake accounts early in their creation just to look busy and justify VC money coming in.
Most of the dating companies did it, other social media did it, that's why 90% of the net today is fake bot traffic.
If the real accounts coming in see this, and they realize this account was CHOSEN to star, then they might not want to invest their time and energy into this game.
That's the point of me shining a light and asking questions, how did this happen, what accounts chose this account and what is really happening here.
Just like I'm sure @papa-pepper doesn't care about if his upvotes are bots and if his comments are bots, he's making his coin like other chosen accounts do.
I'm just glad I didn't send a huge bankroll into here to grab 10K or 100K steem into a stacked game then powering up that dough into SP and being stuck here 13 weeks.
Disclosure as to how this game really works is all I'm looking for.
Lot's of misinformation here, such as hard work and compelling good content gets rewarded.
You think this was fair to new users putting in weeks and months of real legit content that is often very good and yet they're stuck on 25 reps.
So that's why I'm wasting my very valuable time here saying how did this account jump in 1 post and 1 day to what took me 4 days with 100+ posts and comments to obtain and that's a feat doing it in 4 days when most new users take weeks and or months to try to get 10 points of rep.
You're almost whale level, which I consider starts at 70+, I haven't looked at your account to see age or value etc, but I'm sure you're real. You might be an early adopter and grew naturally great.
But to see this account with 1 post in 1 day get trending status and pop 10 points in rep makes this whole game STINK.
So there will be no influx of STEEM into my account to power up as I was planning to do soon.
I can see the game is stacked and now I'm just looking around to see who is stacking it.
RE: Introducing myself