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RE: Separating Content by Type: Making Steemit a Buffet and Not a Stew
There is effort related to posting links too, as it requires to surface the respective content from the web. Having said that, I obviously agree, that the effort for posting links is much lower compared to generating primary content. So why not reflecting this with different payout schemes for the different content categories? Author rewards for link-postings could be at 10% of normal payouts and still make this a very attractive category, I´d assume. I made a proposal about this three of months ago.
Yeah, a different payout is 100% required. Time, effort, energy, labor, work to create content VS. no time, no effort, no energy, no labor, no work to copy/paste a link. Obvious difference in labor-value ratio.
The difference in labor-value will be handled automatically by competition. If links are overrewarded people will post more of them, and fewer and fewer will gain votes. Either the quality (and timeliness) required to be rewarded will go up, or it will become somewhat random, with those who post a link and win the raffle rewarded, but most who post links will not be rewarded much if at all.
Or. People will post more and more in an attempt to merely get lucky. Because its really not that hard to post 100 or 1000 links or 10000 links, even if you're making sure that your links are somewhat topical, there are a ton of link aggregators out there. It wouldnt be hard at all to find 20 or 30 sites like coin telegraph and link every single news story that comes out of them.
Even if this task could not be automated diretly with a bot of some sort (and i strongly suspect it could), there are already a ton of windows automation programs that would bring the compatative amount of effort to practically zero.
And even if the labor differential was not huge, there is another problem. The people who cannot make money writing "long content" (either because theyre bad at english or because they have nothing to say or whatever) are still offered a better hourly by link spamming.
That is to say that the raffle ticket we offer link spammers, for at least some of them, is the their highest hourly EV option. SO why not gather as many raffle tickets as possible.
Posting the links is kind of useless. They need to get votes. Probably the most successful link posters will be voting their own links to give them at least minimal visibility, which means vote power becomes the limited resource, and those doing it will will need to be selective.
Beyond that, even posting the links themselves requires bandwidth, which requires SP. So those wanting to compete by posting links will need to buy more SP, both limiting volume and driving up demand for SP.
You call that a "problem". I call it an opportunity to be more inclusive. Instead of shutting out people with weaker english skills or less captivating personalities, I'd rather have a system them offers them opportunities as well.
Posting a link is not effortless. Even to vote for a post on steemit with a single click is not effortless. It requires time to identify good content.
(Sure you can drop random links and vote whatever your mouse pointer accidentally finds, but such effortless strategies would not lead to relevant rewards, I´d say.)
One of the reasons (probably the main reason) that posting un-commentated links is now frowned upon is that this is exactly what happened
Really? I haven´t observed that. I haven´t seen many un-commented link-posts at all and I don´t recall any with a significant payout. Do you have examples?