its up to us to make steem back to its glory time.Make steemit great again

Great words of you today 
"It was like a wave of enthusiasm with awe and excitement"

The use of bots is definitely removing the social aspect of Steem.
With the soon to launch EOS blockchain and talk of a steemit v2 by @dan . Steem will needed to change its ways quickly to stay relevant.
I'm sure watching to way greed is effecting the user experience here dan will try to code against those gaming the new system.

I have found a change happened on here since i joined, it took 8 days for me to join back last august.
I have found that less people have read my posts and that to me saddens me to think.
One thing i don't like now is that they have removed how many viewers have seen your posts. that was the key for me because you could see how many people at least clicked on your post to see what I had put.
now its all about up-votes and if you haven't got a whale to up-vote you then up-vote bots are the only thing that people have.
Lucky for me when I joined I met a delegated dolphin who up-voted my work which gave me funds and confidence to keep fighting the good fight.
Once he had his delegation taken away my posts dropped from $8 dollars a post to 0.02c a post. which to me is a kick in the teeth for all the hard work I put into my posts.
I came to the conclusion that i would stay on steemit as I love the platform, i like to read others work the up-votes are nice when i get them but i am here now more for the community and not for the cash.

Not much genuine human interaction on steem. Its been a slippery slope.

steemit has a great future

I didn't realise this place was as much fun as you described it in your post, I guessed I really missed a lot then. You did make an important point though in your post, if they won't learn from Yahoo's downfall, they might lose to the upcoming competition

Its rather sad, but i think thats just the way it goes and the Community has to find ways to make it self more pleasant again.

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images are clean and completely free! just make sure to upvote! have a nice one!

![STEEM SBD.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmcYDW23P3DNsycL4EFiNztgUTDmKgiCdvMHczKHCqqz9d/STEEM%20SBD.jpg)

If you read the recent post by @donkeypong and the extended reply by @lukestokes, youll know that ono, isnt as strong of a competitor as you feel.

There is a saying, things are easier said than done.

Steem isnt just a social media platform, the goal is to tokenize the internet.

The lack of focus on user retention is perfectly explained by @lukestokes post.

The steem blockchain is being worked on to provide access for millions upon millions of users.

Steem hasnt even started their plans, in a way, steemit right now is on an ico stage, gathering funds via the attention we bring to the platform, so the "real" steem plan can be achieved.



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At the end,the above is what i feel about steem and the direction its going.

Steemit.com is the first of its kind, steem blockchain is a blockchain that houses steemit.com and very soon, millions of websites on the internet.

I couldn't agree more.

oh steemit, have missed the old times when our payout was divided into two, half went to our steempower and the other half went to our steem dollar account.

Or is it the value? i can remember when 1sbd was 12$ , but now struggling to be 3$.. we have missed you..

we have missed you dearly, please come back

I think steemit is doing a great job so far. You have to understand that it takes time. Youtube wasn't amazing in the first two years it launched either

Even though I am new to the platform I can see this as being an issue. Nice article.

Rili nice

Yes many changes have occurred lately and more will occur in the future. We have to follow up and be patient :( The most users decided to invest in bots instead of writing or reading content.

If you find a good following and community you can help each other, forget the fake vote bot users. Find your people and help each other!

There are proposals in place and the problems may get solved this year perhaps. I have been very negative about Steemit for some months now but having read some updates from @steemitblog has calmed me down.

Steemit, although a unique experiment in social media, tends to suffer similar problems that other leading platforms have faced, namely, where there are material gains to realized, human nature being what it is, people will have a tendency to game the system. This may include, for example, chasing Whales for upvotes, establishing multiple accounts for the purpose of upvoting one's own content or deploying bots to entice of members to upvote content with the promise of an upvote in kind. Ideally, content should receive upvotes based upon its merits and commensurate to the quality thereof. I do realize that 'quality' can be a subjective concept. However, I do believe that most people can make distinction between a post that required some genuine effort on he author's part and a junk post or worst, spam.

I think Steemit's developers and leadership could give take a closer look at how to incentivise members to engage in each others content and to build robust discussions and dialogue. In other words, devise a system that goes beyond pure upvotes and delegated Steem power. Offer financial incentives and other perks based on the amount of constructive interactions members maintain within the community.

Some people will come to Steemit just to make money, others, to gather a large following. But some people just wish to share their interests and talents with the community and receive constructive feedback and make connections to other with similar interests. 

I believe the people behind Steemit are a pretty smart and dedicated bunch. And, although it may appear daunting in get one's posts responded to in a meaningful manner, or seen at all, I remain hopeful that this talent group will find ways to overcome these and other challenges. Because it would truly be a shame to see this platform not  reach its true potential.

i think it was launched at a time when people have already mastered the art of buying an audience on other social media platforms. Not only can you buy followers and comments, you can also pay the company to promote your post. Steemit seemed to be a welcome change from that. However, as someone new to the platform, may be I don't see the damage as much as you do. For me, this is normal to start with. There is promoted content. and I have to find a way to dig out the interesting stuff from the crap. and there are solid enlightening posts on steemit at times. 

And lately I have a seen a lot of steemit whales also talking about around the same point - about quality content, about bid bots, about abuse of SP. Your article also links up with those points. 

Thanks for sharing your perspective. extremely insightful.

It not so easy here on steemit,  but the future owns me

Well, that's what happens when people care more about making money and less about the true purpose of Steemit, which is sharing great content... We talk a lot about sharing economy  but we are really cheap when sending out likes and leaving comments and supporting each other... Unfortunately I don't think bots and fake interactions will be regulated soon, unless somebody from the "high floors" (talking about Steemit content directors..) intervenes on the core of the platform and stop this crap.

@tj4real,what are your ideas on changing the current situation? And btw, what is this "Yahoo" you are talking about? :) 

Cheers from Prague ;) 

@klaus85

Is time to renew some things in steem

The issue with Steem revolves fully around the fact that it is money based. It's hard to do anything without investing money into the platform, and to make it worse, it's impossible to get followers on here.

Exactly my thoughts! I basically join to be a part of a community where people can truly connect and interact just like any social flatforms. But honestly all i can read in my newsfeed are the bots!!! 

I really smile to know that there are certain post worth clicking. Im glad to stumbled on yours. Keep us connected!

Exactly my thoughts! I basically join to be a part of a community where people can truly connect and interact just like any social flatforms. But honestly all i can read in my newsfeed are the bots!!! 

I really smile to know that there are certain post worth clicking. Im glad to stumbled on yours. Keep us connected!

Well I'm quite fresh here (3 days) on Steemit and my registration took 8 days. But I agree it's not user friendly (at all), but I don't know what will change for me in the far future about the bots, but at the moment still real people react ..... but I'm new ;-) Maybe one day I totally agree. Till then I keep reacting to posts which are appealing and I hope you do too ;-) 
Have a great day !!

I was accepted here 3 weeks ago after waiting for 14 days. I have been posting every day since and it's like I am invisible! I look around and everyone else is bathing in money I am wondering if this is the right place for me to be, I have followers and am also wondering if any of them are real people, I upvote and comment on as many posts as I can but I cant see where it's paying off for me, I agree it's not user friendly at all unless you can pay for those bots to help you out. it's starting to feel depressing!