Technical Suggestions to Make Steemit Post Curation Easier

One of the most fundamental aspects of how Steemit works, of what we as participants on the blogging aspect of Steemit are supposed to be doing is curation. By curation, I mean we are supposed to contribute to raising the overall quality level of Steemit posts by upvoting content that meets the criteria of being relevant, informative, useful, well-formatted and/or entertaining. Ideally, all of the above.

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Anyone who has been on Steemit for longer than a week knows that very often does not happen.

A lot of the time, quality posts end up buried under a deluge of spam and posts by the same fifteen people rise to the top of the trending page. There are numerous reasons why this is the case but these are mostly factors of human nature and utopian-io is, to my understanding, not directly set up for fixing thousands of millennia of evolution.

There are however also a number of technical and logistical reasons why curation is tremendously difficult on the platform. The primary one of this is the simple fact that the number of posts exceeds the number of curators. Curation Guilds like @curie, @steemstem and even @utopian-io itself are valid and helpful solutions but they are but fingers in the dike. To solve the technical aspects of the problem, we need technical solutions.

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SUGGESTIONS

The first suggestions I have to help make curation more manageable mostly involve some additions to the Steemit post-sorting functionality.

Currently, the options for sorting and looking at posts are Trending, New, Hot and Promoted.

What might help make curation more manageable for curation guilds and for individual curators is the addition of sorting by Word Count. This works very well for the website Fanfiction.net:

-- even if their own sort-by-word-count is somewhat limited. I would suggest something completely free-form for Steemit similar to Google's search by date where you can narrow your results to between whichever two dates you want:

In the case of Steemit, it would be the ability to select for posts that are higher than a certain word count but lower than a certain word-count. This allows curators who are looking for essays to, for instance, seek out very long posts that have been undervalued and immediately rule out short spam posts, joke posts or picture-heavy/photography posts.

SUGGESTION #2: SEARCH FOR MORE THAN ONE TAG

Another possible addition would be the ability to search for more than one tag at the same time. For a curator, there would be a great deal of logistical and curation value in being able to search for "photography + kr" or "bitcoin + art" instead of just one.

Thanks for reading. I know you guys have a heavy workload but hope this is something you might be willing to look into implementing.

Sincerely,
@madmaxfury

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