With HF21 coming up which will change the economy and incentivise curation we have officially decided to start curating!
Wohoo, after 2 long years of just upvoting the best asskissers in our discord which provided no value, no traffic and barely any content on their autovotes and most have powered everything down and left we have now decided to generously delegate some almost worthless SP which we did nothing to help maintain it's value to another account so that people who do care about this platform will hopefully help us get out of it with something in the end!
That's not all, we strongly believe that manual curation is key to encourage better posts and engagement, we just figured this out and have decided to step up and be some of the first that are truly altruistic on this platform! I know what you may think, we're just doing that to come out better after the HF and hoping the community will forget our past, but that's not it at all guys because, well, it's just, uhm, we didn't realize it in time okay? No one told us. We will start adding value to the platform now though because let's face it, we can't even sell our Steem at any reasonable price even if we wanted to. Also did you guys know they're planning to changing the rewards into 50/50? So there's no point for us to have our authors send us back the post rewards through exchanges and also there's something about a curve which may give us even more rewards if we're good at curating? But yeah of course we don't care about that this is for the good of the platform you guys!
Now let's bid bot this shit up so everyone knows we the good guys!
In all seriousness though, I'm glad the HF is starting to get people to change their ways, it hasn't been rocket science that altruism doesn't work and we need an economic system that encourages content discovery and those being good at it to get rewarded more. Just imagine though how many more users and how much better distributed stake we could've had if more of the bigger accounts had even attempted to curate or distribute to worthy authors, we would've easily had 2-5x more active accounts and been ready to blast off into the new bull run possibly in 2020 or whenever people realize the cancer facebook or golos in english is about to launch.
So to all those that endangered and didn't help retention through the past years at all because "others are earning so much more ROI than me", well, nothing really, most users will probably forget and not care later anyway so congratulations, you got away with it and have way more stake than those that tried. I guess Steem really is that strong that no matter how much of a hit the price takes, how much abuse goes on on the platform for several years, it doesn't take a lot for it to survive and keep on improving cause let's face it, it can't get much worse than what we got now anyway in terms of incentives to do what the chain was supposed to in the very beginning.
PS. Image courtesy of Anna-Louise on Pexels.com without our stupid logo on it.