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RE: Moving to hive

in #notagoddamnnovel6 years ago

I think about this often Bernie... I wrote extensively about this the other day. This is the best explanation I've come up with.

All of us, almost without exception, had this idea that the profits we would make on the steem platform would be directly correlated with the amount of contributions we could make. This meant in our minds, that a hard working Steemian could and probably should have good results granted he or she practiced consistency and subjective quality. I say subjective because beauty and it's cousin quality are biased by nature.

Our inability to fully grasp what effective contributions actually mean, at least in the stage that Steem currently resides in, leaves the newcomers confused and disappointed. In truth, the effectiveness of contributions could be best measured for their ability to bring social value to others and not the subjective quality itself. This means, that my pet peeve of poorly written english is somewhat irrelevant to a post, if said post had a positive social effect in the way of interaction, resteems and what have you

So, I could say to make this a little simpler to digest that content, should not be looked as just content, but more like contribution. And they in turn would be measured (if that is even necessary) for the network effect they can generate.

So for example... if you make a post about.

Bergs or Dogs?

And you get 200 comments, people chatting in the comments, laughs, memes, resteems, etc.

That contribution has more social value, than the new shakespeare showing off his skills to an absent audience.

This might anger some people, but that is what the word "social" is meant to symbolize when we are talking about social media.

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It's a fair point and a very effective one - however, what I personally, and what I think a number of other people are looking for is

  1. The ability for new users to display their posts of a good subjective quality to a multitude of users, the main problem new users have (other than low quality) is a lack of attention. I've seen many new users put up posts of a good subjective quality and fail for lack of notice. There are ways to get around this (specifically posting high quality comments), however they're usually very slow and quite a bit of work.
  2. For all these terrible, low-quality posts to be removed from the front page. No, I don't mean Bernie-esque posts without much solidity in them (though these should also be limited, there shouldn't be more than 2 or 3 up at a time), I mean the people who are posting unoriginal and/or plagiarized content, as well as those who post in terrible english (or whatever language they use - I don't want to see almost unreadable content), and seriously - please stop with all the drama.

Other than that I don't really have any complaints, I just hope Steem can move forward toward the highest quality platform it can be, and finally manage to live up to all that potential.
And Bernie - I've seen a lot of new users attempt to copy your style and flop. It's annoying for them , it's annoying for us. Not much you can do about it, just wanted to point it out to you - I've already told a few of them that it only works if one has a good following, like yourself. Cheers, and Steem on.

I think it's true.

WOW "social media" somebody's finally said it right !

I agree! Its a social media not a book publishing company.