The game is going to turn people away unfortunately. It won't be long before a competing platform comes along and poaches people away from Steemit. Maybe sooner than anyone realizes - like in three days if the rumours are true. Thank you for the post. Upvoted.

Brilliant article teatree. This one should be high up on the list for newcomers.

I have read some great submissions that deserved more than I felt they received but I think commenting is just as important to the success of this platform.

I like the post.
I disagree tho.

The difference between real life and a game ?
**In a game, there are rules.**

Waiting for the whale...

Great article btw.

19 votes in 19 minutes... the fish are swimming and the whales a-coming...

@teatree you gotta popularize this post. I sure am. Posting in replies on other posts. Usually 1 in three upvotes, which puts you in active and may get more upvotes. This is a great post and deserves more views.

I don't like how this puts a lot of power in the hands of a few.

This is disappointing and I fear its true. Makes Steemit less fun in my opinion. Thanks for the post.

[Aquí](https://steemit.com/spanish/@mondeja/steemit-trata-sobre-una-gran-teoria-de-juegos-como-votar-correctamente-parte-2) está el post traducido al español.

Hey, I'm new to steemit. Nice succinct post that helps me get an understanding of how it all works. Upvote for teatree! I plan to have a careful read of the whitepaper.  Any other recommended posts and documents would be appreciated. I was also shown various other sites that use and repackage the steemit content and data. Still trying to get my head around it all. 


In response to beowulf's comment about the potential for steemit being usurped due to the game turning people off - for my part it  was friend explaining  some of the nuance of how steemit reinforces desirable behaviour that got me to signup. I feel it will be (or at least should be) the platform which is most functional that will win out. The question is what's "most functional". For me this is the platform that most effectively supports good debate and sharing of knowledge. Based on my limited knowledge thus far I'm very impressed with the mechanics of steemit. I guess it will be an arms race between platforms with those non-complacent platforms that are responsive to their own limitations who will win out???

I'm getting ahead of myself here but I really like that "correct" behaviour is being reinforces. I think this is something we struggle with increasingly in society, e.g. it is often the pushy argumentative customer who complains loudly that get their concerns addressed, thus this type of behaviour is reinforced. I think it would be tots amaze balls if the mechanics of how best to encourage desirable behaviour could be developed in a microcosm such as steemit, and subsequently integrated into society more broadly. I want to see a better world where you don't get rewarded for being an asshole. Am I being naïve to think steemit could play a role in this?... or perhaps naïve in my general outlook, but that's a whole other debate.

If you look close the whales go around upvoting each other comment they posts.... they are gaming it for sure...shame...these friends and pals of the dev team are stinking up the joint...I was threaten by a whale about down voting something... here's the link to what he wrote me when he sent a penny to my account with a note..
https://steemit.com/whalebullying/@poias/who-is-the-mini-whale-tuck-fheman-why-is-does-he-threaten-minnows-flag-bully-alert

you could get 10000 votes from minnows and still be at 0.00, its all about the steem power in here

Yes, Steem is really set up like a game isn't it? And it is making gamers out of us all. We need to work hard and play harder!!

When you play the Game of Steem, you either win or win more! :D :)

To put this content in layman's terms I went to Area 51. 

 https://steemit.com/area/@steve-mcclair/area-51-steemit-has-arrived