RE: Steemit, Seinfeld and Success: "Quality Content" and a Show About Nothing
Were/are you a Seinfeld fan?
Nope.
Isn't most of our lives about nothing?
I think our lives are about whatever we decide our lives are about.
Is social media in general basically a reflection of our daily lives, which are mostly about nothing?
I don't think it is since I think a lot of our lives are even more mundane that the stuff people focus on Social Media, which is a sobering thought! 😂
How do you think that approach would work on Steemit?
Well the whole Ulog thing seems to revere this approach and is very popular. Also, I think the whole quality content debate is a bit pretentious on the whole.
Like you I'm against such things as blatant plagiarism, identity theft, scams and phishing but after that I'm not so concerned.
I do wish there was a way to ban certain types of content from our feeds though. DMania for example but, having said that, I don't see much of that nowadays.
I wasn't all that much into Seinfeld, either... but the premise of the show served as a good example here.
I know most of my life is incredibly mundane, and I am also well aware that most of what is shared on social media basically constitutes the "highlight reels" of people's lives. Hence we don't see a whole lot of "dozing off in front of the TV with a little drool running from the corner of my mouth" types of posts.
Because... GROSS! And yet? It's the truth of a large part of existence.
I tend to distinguish between "quality content" and whether or not something "adds value" in some way. Copy pasta and plagiarism adds NO value and no originality, so I just can't get behind that. I personally find most memes utterly inane (How's THAT for pretentious??) so I very seldom look at DMania posts.
I also wish there were ways to filter our content better, but very little attention seems to have been paid to the user interface here. I'm told "SteemSummit" is working on becoming a better front end, but it was still really buggy, last time I checked it.
Thanks for your thoughts; appreciate it!
What's "SteemSummit" @denmarkguy? I've not heard of that.
Do you follow @exyle? Have you seen his most recent thoughts about the future of the Block Chain?
My bad Gillian; I mixed my references... I was looking at a user called "steemsummit" and meant to tell you SteemPeak... with which you are probably familiar.
Yes, I do follow Exyle, and saw the piece you're referring to. I expect he may be right, and I felt a certain sadness in realizing that I will probably be looking for a new place to blog soon... AGAIN. But so it goes...
So is SteemPeak an interface like Busy is @denmarkguy? Another way to do what we do on Steemit?
I wonder if a hard core group of bloggers will remain here, even if SMTs scatter most of us. It might go back to how it was in the early days with fewer people and more long form posts. And, if the price of Steem rises, it would make it more worthwhile again perhaps.
It could work out well for you and others who truly like to write. 😁