Another voice from the community that people need to hear. I want to promote this message and get it rewarded. 100% of the total STEEM, SP and SBD will be transferred to @the-oracool after payout.
When one has worked very hard on nine posts in a row, without earning rewards worthy of their efforts, they can begin to lose their motivation.
Then when the tenth one they have posted finally receives rewards they are over the moon and their inspiration restored.
Then... A whale comes along and downvotes that post thinking it is undeserving, and the inspiration is gone. Now the person begins to produce inadequate content because they no longer want to make the effort to post their best work knowing that when it finally gets rewarded, it can still be taken away.
This is why we have seen a decline in quality on Steemit, and why the "flagging for disagreement on rewards" is directly responsible.
If you think this happens to no one, or is just because of flagging, you're wrong. I've been affected by this before the flagging issue. You put out meaningful work to affect people's individual lives and the world in a positive way, and yet other content that has 4-5 paragraphs about newsy fluff gets more rewards. The effort to work and put out the content is not worth it when that happens over and over. So people work towards that lowest common denominator... that's what happens in socialism and communism, and in certain "unionized" workplaces where people don't get recognized for the quality of work they produce for a company. So why work harder when it gets you nowhere... People who are active participants in creating the content and the community need to voting power to allocated rewards, not a concentrated group of people who get to choose who does and doesn't get rewarded, and who can and can't keep their rewards.
Do you want people to feel welcome, like they belong and their voice is heard? Then remove the concentration of power that controls the whole platform, get rid of the alienation, disenfranchisement, disillusionment and disempowerment that results from the concentration of power. Everyone keeps their STEEM, but that wealth and power doesn't direct the platform: the people who create and produce the products of lasting value on the platform will. That will create a dynamic powerhouse of a community that will lead itself to success. Imagine it, see it, create it!
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