For the love of Bulb
Good morning/evening
As some of you may be aware I have been posting on Bulb for quite some time now, I have always loved what Bulb was doing and therefore that made me loyal to the site.
I remember back in the day when there were a lot of copy pasted articles from Medium. Then there were the regular users whou were also having their own work copy pasted and actually reposted on Bulb. There was a great community spirit and we all got together and cleaned the site up, banned a lot of accounts and it was great.
There were people like @Miguel with his 'we are bulb' there was @CryptoLuke who was desperately helping to clean up the site. The great OGs @Andrew is... And @Investigator515 I know there are more but I can't list everyone. Then there are the genuine writers and I really can't list these, there are a few left still posting, but their numbers are getting smaller and the site is now full of buy old accounts rubbish. ( I am sure there will be sketchy links too).
Is anyone still here? is there still a team? @BULB Official @JCBEST. New users arrive and see a site full of spam and leave and it is a shame but if there is still a team it can be cleaned up again. I know this post is a bit of a moan, but I do actually care and I am sure that there are others that do as well, so it is also a shout out to the Bulb team.What concerns me most is not that a few poor quality posts appear on the site. That is going to happen on any platform where people can publish freely. It is when this sort of content starts to dominate what new users see.
Look at the posts appearing on the site today. Articles about buying old GitHub accounts, Facebook accounts and similar services are hardly what attracted many of us to Bulb in the first place. I am not saying that every article has to be about crypto or blockchain, but there should still be some sense of quality and moderation. The thing is I do not want to see Bulb fail, quite the opposite, perhaps it is my rose tinted glasses!
The trouble is when a site becomes known for questionable content, it will become more difficult to attract good writers back, especially if they have spent hours researching about an article for it to sit alongside some of these spam posts. They are the ones that will stop posting and quietly disappear. If you only discovered the platform today and knew nothing about the old community spirit and the good side of Bulb and all you saw were articles with questionable content that is possibly harmful it would not be a good first impression.
So perhaps this is not a complaint after all, just a simple reminder that there are people here who still care and would like to see things improve. I know it can be done, it has been done before so it can be done again. For the love of Bulb can we please fix this?
