The disconnect between you and I on this subject is that I never saw a ”need” for a ”fair playground” for everyone. As in I never saw a need for minnows to have that shot to get their stuff to trending right away.
The way I saw it was you were supposed to work hard on your content and network.
Trending was a lot of the same people every day, but legit stuff rose to the top every now and again, still.
Now no one curates and everything is next to pointless.
Unless you’re a stupid bitch who takes her clothes off on a platform full of crypto nerds who like to masturbate to you, that is.
It just comes down to personal preference. I understand that you like the current, sort of more business-oriented direction better - I originally joined for the social media direction.
When it comes down to preference, neither is right or wrong.
But the fact of the matter is that Steemit no longer represents what the original idea was.
Edit: I also think it’s possible that our views are affected by the fact that I was doing well in the old model, while you weren’t.
That makes us prefer one model over the other.
I agree with some of what you said, because the content side will take care of it's self. I am not worried about it... Yet.
I do want to be clear on one point. I also don't care about fair. I don't care about a minnow getting to trending. I care about a content creator getting to trending. Professional, mature content creators are used to this model.
Also, I don't mind if a minnow gets to the top if they can handle the scrutiny.
You are correct, I care about the business model first, because the content can be corrected at any point. If we don't have an audience, content creators will not stay.