Hello, I go by the name of effection on the internet and have for a while. I'm relatively new to the whole cryptocurrency thing but have found this site after looking up several guides and have finally decided to make and account here after all. I originally got interested in ETH a few months ago whenever it was only around twenty dollars and have since gotten more interested as it went up along with my investments. I feel like this place is a neat mix between a place to learn about crypto and engage in it, considering in order to get upvotes on anything, you have to make good posts in the first place. This place forces you to be a good poster.
Of course, like any user here should, I have some doubts about how this whole thing would work out. For one, I think that it acts like a sort of social pressure community, where unpopular opinions are forced out and you're forced to conform to the general public opinion in order to gain anything from posting: this could of course be countered by the argument that you'll get more upvotes the better your argument gets, but as anybody who has ever argued online knows, good arguments aren't always the ones that are upvoted. A second doubt is one that I found when looking on the reddit page for Steemit, where some users were criticizing it for being to 'Buzzfeed-y' in the sense that people post nonsense clickbait articles that anyone can make that don't technically count as plagiarism: while I have seen this, I believe that this sort of thing will be more of a test of the community than anything else, and that hopefully more well-thought out content can be made up.
Now onto the bit for myself: I consider myself to be a leftist, a nihilist, and all other sorts of things that those two labels entail. I'm heavily interested in philosophy and love to show off my amateurish book collection. Among some of my favorite philosophy and leftist authors include: Marx (of course), Hegel, Slavoj Zizek, Nick Land (not particularly for the philosophy but for his arguments), Deleuze, Sartre, Debord, Camus, Derrida, Berkeley, and Luxemburg. At the moment I am reading a book called the Situationist International Anthology -- a group the Guy Debord, one of my favorites, was in -- which is a collection of articles and such from a group called the Situationist International. If you want to learn about ideas that may have sparked their group, I'd recommend the short piece by Ivan Chtcheglov, Formulary for a New Urbanism. Chtcheglov is famous for trying to blow up the Eiffel Tower because it reflected light into his attic room (damned be curtains).
I am most interested in writing sort of introductory pieces to philosophers or concepts in the philosophy tag here, so if there's anybody that you want to learn about, please feel free to comment one of my authors and I'll put them at the top of my priority list.
Now before I go, here is one of many untitled pieces by my favorite dead artist, Zdzislaw Beksinski:
