NO Questions

It’s now been over three years since I’ve been part of a curator team again. With Team Europe, we had/have big plans. Not to turn everything upside down, but to possibly offer some different approaches. A week of truly hard work is almost behind us, and the disappointment runs deep.

This isn’t meant to be a complaint post - it won’t change anything anyway, though it might help to let some of the built-up sadness out. Besides, the-gorilla already said so much concerning "What happened Steemit?" in a very personal post - things that speak directly to what I feel. And the recent post by denmarkguy also expresses exactly what’s on the minds of our team members.
Still, I feel the urge to share a few of my own thoughts with the world. Fairly neutrally - I simply want to ask you a few questions. A bit all over the place, but here goes:

• Have you ever spent more than half an hour writing a post?
  • Do you look after your post once it’s published (or are you already rushing to the next one)?
• Would you want to read your own post?
  • Would you pay for it?
  • Would you pay as much as bigger stakeholders potentially could—yet you clearly expect them to?
• Are you aware that violating copyright (e.g., through plagiarism) is considered a serious offense in most countries around the world?
• Do you actually read the posts you vote for?
  • Do you engage with them?
• Do you write comments that show the author you really engaged with their post?
  • Do you spend more than 3 minutes (if at all) on a comment?
• Do you expect comments on your own posts?
• Do you respond to those who took the time to write something for you?
  • Do you at least acknowledge their comment with a vote?
• Have you built a network?
  • Do you enjoy interacting with it?
• Is your network (made up of real people!) able to vote your posts past the payout threshold?
• Would you still be here if the Steemit team and all its curation teams suddenly stopped voting tomorrow?
• Is it an issue that major stakeholders might rather focus solely on themselves and delegate their SP elsewhere?
• Are you embarrassed that, due to you delegated a large part/ all of your SP, you can no longer support the community the way you expect it to support you?
• Do you keep track of what your vote trail is voting for on your behalf?
  • Are you embarrassed by the kind of crap your SP ends up “supporting”?
• Do you sometimes feel ashamed to be an active Steemian - a part of this “community”?
• Is the word “greed” a negative term for you?
• Do you think the Steemit team sometimes feels sick when they see what their SP has been used for?

And on and on... So to wrap it up, three final questions:

• Do you expect more from Steem than just “a quick coin”?
• Do you see a future for Steem?
• Do you believe that you, as an individual, can help keep interest in this platform alive?

Okay. Writing these questions down, as random as they are, actually felt quite good.

If you answered even one of these questions with NO, please take a minute for some honest self-reflection.
If you answered several with NO, then please find yourself another hobby - before you ruin the hobby of the few human users who are still here and still care.

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06.07.2025

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