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Prices of Steem and SBD are very low. In this situation many opportunists may think to ditch steemit (Every steem based apps) and go somewhere else but the true and dedicated admirers of this platform will never leave this platform. I hope this low price period is the perfect time to judge who really loves this platform and who just see it as an opportunity to earn. I am hopeful that this platform will be the most successful social media platform of this century. 

when the price sbd or steem cheap, this is a chance we to buy steem and do the power up. And I keep stand with steemit when the price is cheaper and when many other platforms keep coming.

I'm a little bit concerned because the popularity is of Steemit is goding down

![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXkJ2mKuvuoiBa6A4Ueb4ZvpU4LQjzr3FhRwRJmXPKNb6/image.png)

Without some major improvements of UX, I think it will go into oblivion, or it will be the playground of the chosen few.

Another concern is that besides the high value of rewards, even in my country *(where it's possible to double the monthly income), Steemit wasn't able to become popular. 

My friends simply chose to stay on FB instead. Not 1, but 10 or 20. 

Youtubers never came to dTube and so on...

Firmly standing with you, Ma'am. 😎

What i think is there should be a normal way of upvoting as well, with no price associated. With this way upvotes number can surely increase and people will know that the posts are reaching out.

I think this drops in the markets are fine, everybody here is a long term investor, so this dips can't scares us!

We can see that the "commercial war" is influenciating global markets, and crypto is no exception, we are going down in the same way, the tendency is to go down, so we follow, which in my opinion shows that we are getting bigger in the global scale, because we have seen before some drops in stock markets that didn't influentiated us, for me that meant that we were too small and not enough people were reacting to what was going on in the world.

Concluding, I would say Yes, to your question, even if the FUD slows us down for a while.

I'm really torn on this.  One the one hand:

>And if we weed out some of the crap, then there are more vests in the rewards pool for those working hard.  

Absolutely true.

On the other hand, 90% of anything is crap, so if that ratio is constant* then all that's really happening is that we're losing people who want to make an above-minimum wage rate on an article.

* I won't even get into whether or not a lot of the low-quality content comes from areas where the economy is such that even a few bucks are a major income except to say *if* that perception is true, then a falling STEEM value actually enriches the crap %.

Hi @paulag nice to see you again, I am 100% that low prices of SBD and steem will reduce the number of short term commitment user, and it will remain with long term consistent user. I don't really care about the prices actually, because my concern is developing my account for really long term commitment. @el-nailul. Just able to check the thing on again...

It's pretty difficult to keep positive mind set when all the markets are falling down, but reading posts like yours definitely encourage to hodl. We truly believe in potential of steem and it's ecosystem, that's why we are writing our blog only on this platform and nowhere else. Hopefully this downtrend will shake off most off spammers and get rich quick thinkers.  Good luck to you in everything and steem on!

Well, the high SBD value did indeed make it a bit easier, I paid most of my Smartnode (smartcash) with it.  But apart from that I just prefer to keep the SP and power up the steem we are getting now.  
This will allow for more growth in my account.

This is also a reason we are running @swisswitness , 

we believe in this blockchain and are investing by blogging and by running the witness (servers do cost money)

I personally like having steem at a lower price, it allows for better accumulation

all whale complainers could buy Steem now, to at least become a dolphin.

I am super happy to see the low prices as that increases the amount of SP paid out to us. The last few weeks were as good as the few months before that for me. More Steem Power is the ultimate goal.

But a lot of people who are really good creators will also leave, I think on the whole the price slump is negative. The main reason you point out for the slump being good is that scammers, spammers will leave because the price is too low to make much money here, but also you say it is a long time investment therefore you expect the price to go back up, wouldn't that bring the scammers-spammers back?

I'm not sure I agree that lower steem and SBD prices will improve content quality because I'm not sure I agree that people spam, scam, plagarize because they are seeking high SBD/Steem, but in fact because they are looking to acquire a crypto, regardless of its price. 

If Steem was like 0.01 USD perhaps that would mean lame spam/scammers would disappear because then the reward would be perhaps too minimal, but unless we get down that low, I think spam/scammers will stay, unfortunately.

*A long-term thinker here.* I have been investing my own money and powering up ever since I joined Steemit more than a year ago, and I will continue to hodl for as long as necessary. And although I would have liked to see the price of Steem go up, you have a good point that the lower current prices somewhat cleanse the platform.

i agree  low prices will aid quality of content and discovery but on their being more vest to go around normally this is the case but due to the amount of whales powering down its reducing vests POS system's rewards are calculated by the total amount  staked.

Also with the amount of whales powering down it would be a poor decision to buy into a market when at least 500k Steem will be powered down this week and most likely sold the best time to buy would be after whales sell

This is a well writen post,i agree with almost everything.

I celebrated one year on Steemit just 5 days ago and have witnessed the prices when they are high and down! 

As you stated,the high prices always bring scammers who want to make quick money...the get rich mentality. I have seen this in my 1 year here
>After going through a period of high prices and for some, very high post payout values, this has attracted many ‘get rich quick’ type people, more plagrisim, more spam. 

It is fascinating to note that right now we get more SP from posts because of low activity.It is only the long term thinkers who can stick tothe lows of crypto.

I am happy because i am a longterm thinker....I am also sure Steemit will stick around and deliver results to us the long term thinkers.

This hard times(low prices) is the time to separate serious folks from the unserious(get rich quick!) guys.

I will stick for the longterm .

Great points. However, those that came here for the quick bucks when price was high, will come back again when price rises. I also think that next uptrend will be caused by more adoption and therefore new users will come at an exponential rate, meaning there will also be more "get rich quick, post spam" kind of people.  

I don't know if steem price causes every bad element to leave as many have figured out and adopted ways to use bots to get paid for spam. And some of them will be happy with whatever they earn. Other point that i can think of, low price means more volume is needed to sustain similar level of earnings, therefore much more spam.

I also wrote a bit about this last week, and I totally agree with you.

Yes, of course it is not so super rewarding seeing your good post payout only a couple of cents to a buck, but on the other hand. It is still free money.

I also enjoy the engaging at this moment a lot more, because so many more people are now like 'stuck' together. These relations seems more meaningful in a way. Its not bad having these kinds of times 

(but yeah in the end we all want steem to moon again hihi)

Many small dolphin steamians despair desperately with the current state of SBD I little whale keeps excited at Steemit and always gets the spirit of the great whales crypto, thanks

The best I could think of is to power up Steem. Otherwise, we have to find an alternative solution during this downtrend. The good news is there is another project support us with better rewards such as SteemPress plugin for WordPress.

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Great post!

We're losing the people who want dollars, and keeping the people who want SP. 
Fine by me :)

I always beside you mom, steem ON

I = better platform. :) lol

I've started my experience here on Steemit last January,when crypto values were quite high and SBD was around 7 dollars, so payouts were higher and there were lots of newcomers every day. Today I see a huge difference, of course; sometimes I wonder why I stay, because it's not just for the money, it is because I see some good potential and the possibility to create communities and projects inside and outside Steemit itself. I stay for the people, for the projects I am involved in. I am interested in SBD and Steem, I can't deny it, but if at the beginning this interest was almost primary, now it is somehow secondary. I am part of the italian community, for example; that's one of the reasons I stay and I am still involved and excited even if crypto now are going down. I believe this platform can be precious if its contents have a good quality and if everyone shares his knowledge honestly and tries to create involving experiences/challenges/contests/project/etc. It can be a source of money, it will surely enrich you in many other ways as well. This moment, I agree, can be like "natural selection": only the ones really interested in will keep believing in Steemit and will stay here; the others, maybe, will come back as soon as SBD and Steem values will rise again. 
You wrote: *I believe a low price of STEEM will create a better platform for content discovery*. Well, I totally agree! Always look at the bright side!

Thank you for sharing :)