As many of your might have noticed, the platform streemian.com didn't receive a lot of upgrades during the last 1.5 years. The reasons for this was mostly due to lack of time and the lack of an actual business plan for it that makes sense long term.
Some of you may remember that back then, I engaged heavily with the approach of other businesses that approve their own low-quality posts, every day to fund their business. Back then, I took a major hit from the community as being greedy and received close to zero support for my believes in the rewards pool not to be drained by fraudulant businesses. Back then, a flagging was considered a massive intrution into an individuals life and should only be considered in the most severe cases.
Those dicussions made me add a slider to streemian.com that allows its users to pick how much they would like to support through auto-voting of actual announcements and upgrades to the software. Since then, I made use of that feature on seven (7) occations which are (of course) logged in my database:
- [streemian.com] New options to give more power to the users
- [streemian.com] Build your own guild with 'FanBase'
- Python STEEM 0.4.0 - Massive changes to greatly simplify onboarding - Merged Steemtools
- [streemian.com] Further updates, curation statistics, max post ages, bugfixes and partnership with curie
- [streemian.com] 3M votes milestone, curation statistics, max post ages, bugfixes and partnership with @curie
- Shutdown of Streemian.com
- [Negotiations] Succession of Streemian.com - Reactivation
That means, streemian has used its customers' voting power only a few times to fund its own businesses, which is kept for free for the last 2+ years.
Being less active on STEEM for the last year, I was suprised to see the effects and comments caused by the last two auto-votes posts. Maybe I expected people to be glad about streemian.com to be continued by an actual team, maybe I thought they would approve that post anyways, maybe I was greedy after running a service for free for over 2 years that made its customers hunderds of thousands of STEEM in curation and posting rewards (yes, I tracked those payouts for over a year, too). Maybe I thought streemian.com (which has caused over 17M votes on STEEM) was considered an integral part of the STEEM community. Maybe I was all wrong looking for a successor and instead should have taken it down silently, instead.
Either way, the situation is what it is and I feel the need to appologized for the trouble caused by the last two posts.
The be honest, I am proud of the community since they (finally) figured out how precious of a gift they have been given with the reward pool of STEEM and that they do need to take care of it also by flagging/downvoting posts.
Looking forward to see if the community continues to appreciate the service offered of streemian.com indendent of who actually runs it.
Kind regards
Fabian Schuh a.k.a. xeroc
ChainSquad GmbH Management