What's the biggest feature you want added to Steemit?
Since I can be a reservoir of satirical remarks, I want to make sure I am reading the question correctly. When I first started my journey on the Steem Blockchain, I thought the interface was rather bland. To my surprise, it lacked many features one would expect from a supposed blogging site.
As time went on, I became acquainted with different dapps and frontends on the platform. Then, I asked myself about why do I even bother to use Steemit? Any Steemian would have a better experience using @busy.org or @steempeak. The latter doesn't even have massive delegations from Steemit, Inc.!
To be fair, wallet transfers on Steemit.com is still the best out of all the other alternatives available. That is about as far as I would go in terms of Steemit's advantage.
Without further ado, here's my horrible idea for the day:
There have been many discussions about Steemit as a blogging platform. The truth is, it has not lived up to everyone's expectations. The main obstacle seemed to be the quality of content on the blockchain.
If you search around, you will find many who feel that they shouldn't have to blog at all to access the rewards. Given this is a supposed decentralized platform, they are correct! The platform can be anything the users choose to be, but consequences could follow in forms of flags.
What is the next biggest feature, you ask?
Interaction with everyone's transfer history, profile information, and their activities!
Think about it, since almost no one cares about quality (or original for that matter) content, why not? There would be more items for you to interact with on the blockchain at the expense of the Witnesses.
Hate the fact someone upvoted @steemcleaners? Downvote that. Your buddy finally followed @berniesanders? That is worth an upvote. Let's take it a step further by looking at the mysterious @freedom. Perhaps we could downvote every transaction to display our discontent for the stagnation?
While we are on the subject of @freedom, why not take this feature to the Witness voting page? Not like many of the current top 20 would be dislodged from disapproval. Don't stop there! Head straight over to Steemians' profile page and flag that lame profile picture. We could gamify ANYTHING!
Remember those pesky 25 rep accounts that don't post? Now, we can give them a piece of our mind! In addition, pass judgments on people's Resteems.
You might be thinking to yourself: man, this is such a bad idea. That is the point. I presented a bad idea as a satirical response to the state of the Steemit frontend. It is also a reflection of some current trends I've encountered time and again.
Let's be honest, wouldn't you want to make a silent, but aesthetic, opinion on someone's name? I would upvote the crap out of @onefatindian's name because it is humorous. We would see engagement like we have never seen before. Then, Steemit can stop pretending to be a blogging platform.
Your musing answers are really entertaining. This one is hilarious and not a bad idea!
The questions are like freewrite prompts. I might try Musing...soon
It's a fun app. They definitely offer you some writing prompts.
It's pretty much my go-to "shit post" zone. Surprisingly, I get a lot more engagement from these posts. I guess Bernie was right.
Hey @enforcer48,
In this awesome suggested update (which I assume will be part of HF21 - if anyone is 'listening'), may I suggest a correlation between upvotes and the size of the username?
I must have the fattest name around, so it would look something like this:
The fatter, the better...
Fat.
Cheers,
Hahaha I like the signature better. Just add an @ sign and it would definitely look fatter.
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I can get behind this 😃
Does it literally have to be the display name or the suggestion of how heavy it is?
In that case, we better snatch up the name @RCDebt before others.
Why not both? Lol
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I like your thinking.
I would like to transfer Steem directly to bank or use it for shopping etc. without the long exchange process to Bitcoin or other coins. I know that they have virtual credit or debit cards for some currencies. I dont know if we have one using Steem or not, but thats another good feature :D
As far as I know, Steem does not have that venue. This is why I say Steem is lightyears behind BTC and LTC when it comes to payment processing and merchant adoption. That needs to be addressed.
I remember some months ago Jerry Banfield introduced such a project, but didnt hear about it again. Hopefully someone will work on it, because it will change everything. People will take Steemit more seriously and even the value will go high. Lets keep dreaming :D
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