Is It Time To Create A Dark Steemit or Maybe Separate SubSteems Or Groups In Steemit?
People like tribes, they always have. It's not realistic to wish or hope that everyone will "just get along". That is a naive approach. Will Steemit have groups in the future? I like groups. It allows me to be more open with a select number of people.
In @nspart's latest post, he's threatening to take vengeance on the Puritans within Steemit. After his posts were flagged, he proclaims that he will be soon:
"bringing on the Adult Industry on to Steemit......My goal now is to bring on to Steemit as many Swimwear Models, Nude Models, Fitness Models, Cam Girls, Strippers, Porn Actresses and their fans which will far out number the Puritan Crowd it will also bring in new money, and new users."
Great, another war.
Start a venture with vengeance as your primary motivator, and watch how well that goes.....
This problem keeps cropping up, and wars will continue to wage within Steemit unless we get different rooms within the site. It can best be summed us like this:
Right now in Steemit, we are all smashed up against each other like in a can of sardines. Geeks are alongside con men, pornstars lie along the hemline of an Amish woman. Details of last night's drunken debauchery lie alongside puppy photos from the lady who gardens in her spare time.
I accidentally get a whiff of someone's BO whom I don't really get along with. There are no groups, no separate boards, no places that I can cultivate businesses/friendships within Steemit. There is no dividing space that separates the disparate worlds. There's a reason that reddit has subreddits. It's to keep the world's people in separate rooms, to keep them from strangling each other.
Steemit is a petri dish of people, all kinds of people.
Steemit has no clear identity and so everything goes. But when people are involved, everything does not go. We don't like the same things, do the same things or think the same things. We are all diverse and have been shaped by a lifetime of different experiences. If Steemit just focused on porn and sports, I'd be out of here so fast. There literally would nothing for me. That's not the reality I want to live in. That's not my reality. Sure, I can just use the NSFW filter, but this reason I'm bothered by this particular user's anger is because I have seen it over, and over and over and over again. I felt this same anger when some whales flagged my post. The cause of the anger has not gone away......we are all in one room breathing down each other's nasty necks, and it's getting old. (No, this doesn't mean I hate Steemit, calm down you Steem Addicts.)
Is it time to create a DarkSteemit where @nspart can take out all his vengeance?
A place that no Puritans will be present? Sometimes it does feel like reddit's model gets it right because there are dedicated rooms with certain topics. Maybe Steemit is already planning on going in this direction?
How long can we be expected to all see things the same way, as we are packed like sardines into the same space?
With the current model, wars are inevitable. Flagging will continue. And if you upvote that conman named Dollar Vigilante one more time, I'm going to.....well, I will just continue doing what I've been doing: educating people about facts, and flagging his posts, all of them. He's pretty much abandoned his blog in Steemit and doesn't answer anyone's questions anyway.
I vote for creating a subreddit-like Steemit......I've always thought that could solve a lot of these issues....
Thanks for listening. By the way, I hope that I have not offended you, @nspart. Your post of course alarmed me, especially the vengeance part of it.
Yep, we need substeems with separate reward pools and separate tradable tokens.
Yes!
Why are you not on http://steemspeak.com yet, @stellabelle
It is time :) https://discord.gg/sqxV63P - Happy New Year!
Steemspeak is like cheers for me. It makes me feel like Norm form cheers. You wanna be where you can see the troubles are only about steem. You wanna be where everybody knows your screenname"
I'm anti-social. I've just emerged from a deep depression actually. talking is not really my gig.
Ooh, that's interesting proposal. I've missed that when it has been published.
Substeems could have their own rules, but I'd like to start small and just let users to create substeems. After they've been used for a while we can see what kind of problems come up. Then a possibility to create different rules can be given to get rid of the exact problems.
What are the minimum rules for a substeem so it can actually function as a group? I'd say: subscribe to substeem and whitelist/blacklist users (as I've proposed here).
About the new tokens for substeems, I'm not sure if they are needed. My initial thought is that they will only make the system too complicated without adding enough value to the community.
Is this is a joke? Everything needs one token thus one reward pool to make it valuable but we could have multiple websites and trending pages perhaps one tag would p say which platform a post should appear on.
You post where the most incentive is.
that is true..
I don't think new coins are the answer. it's complicated enough as it is.
I am tired of people freaking out, it just continues to happen that someone is flagged, and then seeks vengeance. Two people in a row I just came across.
If you create a substeem for another language like russian you don't want it to be dominated by english posting whales who have power by default. This is the main reason you need a separate token to seperate powers between different groups. To gain influence in a substeem you need to invest or post to that place first.
In that case, I think an entirely new Dark Steemit should rise up.
but NO MORE DIFFERENT COINS!
I think that an alternative to separate tradable tokens could be a system that permits substeem's users accepts transfers only from members of that substeem, like a Walmart Sam's Club. The system also could have the option to limit the transactions only with steems mined into their members, avoiding eventual impacts from flooding of non-members users' steems.
I agree, but with "Home" page consisting only of people I follow, I can usually avoid the BO. Problem is, I still do have to search "New" and 'trending' now and then to stay fresh.
Perhaps if we could follow categories, or hashtags, as part of our homepages, that would help.
Busy already has that feature, check it out.
what is "Busy"?
Steemit on steroids. ;)
https://app.busy.org
hmmm, I like the look!
Great idea! Using followed hashtags as main way to set our homepages would be very helpful.
We need to flag every post.
We can't be a 13+ site and an 18+ site.
Glad you take this stance @stellabelle i do agree with what you say concerning Vengence, as it is a stupid and ignorant reaction to any provocation no matter how serious, as it brings you down to their level I feel. Best preserve the high ground in my opinion . It could be that we need to create a sub steem categorisation of content as you say, why not if that is what is necessary to keep this place as cool and as diverse as it should be !! But then its the ghettoization process which i think could break this community into a thousand pieces too so i am also not so sure if it will help things. I think its always healthy to raise points like this for discussion and I hope this post and its comment section will see the debate which is clearly necessary !! upvoted )
the flagging is making us sore, and new people are always getting sore, and then leaving....
Yes well i personally have just one brief problem with another account here !! He then went on to commit Steemicide by crossing swords with a few whales and he went down to rep 4 lasat time i saw !! i think he is gone too now !! We do need to stop this childish behaviour and people start to assume there place as an adult human being. The problem we see and face in this world is that it seems some people cannot live with other,s and even " Online " !! Its a sad state of affairs and if the human race is to evolve out of its monkey state they have to change !!
Great post @stellabelle. The problem is that certain users get easily offended. This user seems to get mad at everything, Once I saw one of his posts and instead of flagging him I wrote my opinion on a coment saying that I wish Steemit didn't have those images, and that that was objectification of the woman's body, something completely valid, since I am a woman, now the user got offended and not only flagged my comment, but also started attempting towards against me in a personal level...
Now, users that post NSFW content, should be less sensitive over other people's opinion, in the end they are the ones posting controversial stuff.
He can start "a war" if he wants to, I don't care.
Steemit is too good to let trolls ruin it.
Thank you for sharing this post
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Yes! substeems. I am definitely for that. It seems inevitable at some point. I think it is already in the long term plan from what I've heard about @mughat's discussions with Ned. @mughat has written about it on his blog too.
I think sub-reddit system could be the better solution. I also agree when you mention Medium as a good model to Steemit, I think they assembly the home page showing posts based in the visitor's history of navigaton and preferences. If you're interested, I wrote another suggestion few days ago: Steemit Knots, an idea of places to share subject specific, group created content on Steemit.
but isn't that what tags are for?
At least users should be able to subscribe to tags. Otherwise there will be no community.
well, we are all forced to look at the big trending page....that's where everyone wants to be, on one page.
yes, but nsfw tagged items are concealed from view by default
To be honest, i think it would be far easier to create a "light" steemit, where NSFW is just completely hidden, rather than create a dark steemit and turn the current regular steemit into "light" steemit.
if that makes any sense.
You mean creating a safe space?
I suppose so (though i despise the term). I guess my point is that right now, good, bad or indifferent, steemit.com is the one and only way to access content on the steem blockchain.
That being the case, I think it should include as much content as possible. As much as possible (while still maintaining mainstream appeal) steemit should be the "anything goes" site, and if there is a need for a site that excludes specific types of content, that should be the new site we create.
I don't know who the "we" is.
But maybe a solution would be that, the safe spacers, would create a whole different platform themselves.
I've given a "Dark Steemit" some thought, tho' not for NSFW content as such: I was thinking more along the lines of stuff you'd see on 4Chan.
Unfortunately or fortunately, that would require forking Steemit and starting afresh. It's not a bad idea - back in tha day, LiveJournal threw up a dark-sister Site called "DeadJournal" :) - but it would require a large gang of cryptonauts to get something like that off the ground. For one, it would require enough folks to be witnesses...
4chan is the anti-christ.
I am not sure why 4chan gets such a bad rap, they have some of the best trolls, they helped me pick out my car, offered information to improve my health, taught me about cryptocurrencies, informed me of Steemit's launch and they have even helped many men with a midnight diagnosis of what's that on their junk.
I can understand hating some of the boards on there, but to demonize the entire site seems like overkill. If 4chan ever dies Steemit and Reddit may end up with an influx of refugees asking Seriously, is this how it's suppose to look after coming in contact with rust?