After eight days of blogging on Steemit, she finally made a post that got traction. $50 Dollars which made her happy for about twenty minutes until someone came and kicked her down the stars. What, what what??
I have been following @karenmckersie now for a long time, she has been one of the most active bloggers and commenter on here and has because of that made over 500+ followers who I think for the most part love what she is doing and adore her positive personality. That is why it was so devastating to see that of all people she became a victim of a self-proclaimed-policeman who gave her a 50% TAX and downvoted her post to $25 Dollars and all her motivation was lost.
Her last post was a "take a break from Steemit" post, and you can read it here: I am taking a break from Steemit. And after reading both articles and going through all her posts from she entered into steemit and until now, I had nothing but sadness in my heart for how cruel this platform has become thanks to in this case one single person with a lot of steempower.
"Please go and stand by the stairs so I can protect you"
Can we please make our culture a more positive culture were people vote for each other and congratulate those who once in a while make it to the top instead of this self-policing "you have made too much money today, so you have to be taxed hard and brutally, and if you whine about it we will be back with a gang of Internet-Thugs that will destroy your entire account because we can".
It is like The Law of Jante has become the law of Steemit, not always - but sometimes, and I quote from the Dano-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose who wrote these rules into his novel: "A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks" from 1933/1936.
The ten rules if Jante state:
- You're not to think you are anything special.
- You're not to think you are as good as we are.
- You're not to think you are smarter than we are.
- You're not to convince yourself that you are better than we are.
- You're not to think you know more than we do.
- You're not to think you are more important than we are.
- You're not to think you are good at anything.
- You're not to laugh at us.
- You're not to think anyone cares about you.
- You're not to think you can teach us anything.
These cultural rules are a sum of how to keep peasants and poor people down, written down by an observer who noticed how the upper-class was talking down and judging the people beneath them. It is a great set of rules to go by if you want to create depression, sadness, oppression and in the end the entire society collapses into a non-productive society where everyone is afraid to stand out.
people try to fit in instead of standing out - which is sad because are we not supposed to be an outstanding generous platform were little old ladies and everyone else can contribute with their original content or share their opinions about other peoples content?
People are seeking Social Acceptance - When your break their spirits like that, you ruin a person for a long time so whoever is into this "flagging for making too much money" thing - please cut it out and find a better solution that does not make active bloggers break down and leave the platform. Let us be known for our generosity and not for the platform that is being cheap.
The Shover-Robot says that Pushing is the Answer. Humans must be pushed down the stairs!
In the end I just want to congratulate everyone who has made it to the front page once or twice for being outstanding people. I do not always have the same kind of interest as all of you, but I respect that you all put down time, effort and creativity into blogging and I hope you stick around for the longest time and not give up your accumulated steempower. Our platform is not even one year old, and from time to time things can become very unfair around here, and there is gamers of the system everywhere that run away with far more then $50 dollars in a day so on behalf of myself and others that might feel empathy and even sympathy with @karenmckersie and others that have gotten the baseball-bat to the head for not being political correct enough or part of the political correct guild, I want to apologise and inform you that you have far more supporters than haters. And hopefully we will see a cultural change around here soon. I personally hope so and working towards it one day at the time.
