Growing WEKU
This has nothing to do with HF22
I have been thinking for a while about how these money driven platforms attrack all sorts of scammers and farmers and shit creators.
How to solve and avoid that?
Steemit set the bases for a disaster, greed driven posting whales looking for revenue...
These platforms have several type of users... But it is a social network afterall, and what happens to social networks?
That you usually remain around those you know, liking and sharing their content.
Then from time to time a star is born and everyone shares and likes the content of said star...
There are content consumers:
These are basic users making silly small posts, sharing their cat and what not.
they dont get much attention and their presence would be mostly in the celebrities posts commenting and engaging with good content and liking their circle.
There are content creators:
Artists, musicians, writers, educators, that provide content what interest the many content consumers and become viral in the platform.
There are investors:
They get a lot of stake and help make viral the content creators and reward their effort.
There are other types but for what i am thinking these 3 suffice.
Now the steemit mistake
Is to think that every user deserves huge rewards from their shitposts, if you look at facebook, youtube, twitter, your posts are mostly seen by family and friends, it is very difficult to reach the masses and to become successful there.
The comment estigma
Most users should get their rewards from commenting and engaging while they try to make a success of the content their create.
But in these platforms we think comments are worthless and we dont value them properly, so what is left for the small user ?
Shitpost... Farm and all these shady practices.
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What i think:
Curation projects
Should only exist from investors who bought tokens to earn money identifying great content, not those bullshit i farm my way to become a curator, and i am entitled to free money because i do a great job.
Real content creators
Should receive a delegation to promote engagement, imagine that all the good undervalued authors got a boost of 10.000 WP to reward their fan base on the comment box.
Promising users
Should build their reputation around the celebrities comment box and the quality of their comments should drive content creatos to identify them, share their content and help them be known...
That is how a social network should work.
That the small users will create circle jerks around their inner circle? Yes is true, but that is what social means, we have a tendency to gregarize and create smaller groups within bigger groups.
It is normal that you want to vote @ 100% the post of your mom hanging the laundry, it is normal that if you do not engage with your users they stop commenting your posts.
It is normal that if no one knows who the fuck you are, no one with WP will vote you...
It is your job to let your self be known, and not in the dungeons of a discord server, but in the platform!
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Final toughs
I have been talking with the mazinga guys and with weku, @mazinga and linx like this idea and have started delegating small amounts to several users to give i a try.
However it is not in their interest to dilute their stake delegating to many small users because they live on curation rewards and when you delegate you don't get rewards. (And yet they have delegated more than 400K WP)
weku on the other hand should be interested in creating a healthy user base but they seem happy with the failed steemit model of delegating big amounts to so called projects that in the end make rich the project owner and instead of driving the user attention to content creators it creates a follower base for said projects that rarely has much to offer in terms of content appart from a curation report.
The "La teta" effect
If i had the power to do it like that i would make 1000's of small delegations and adjust them as time evolves, this platform was designed to have the voting power decentralized spread around as many users as possible, yet we insist in concentrate the power in a central entity so everyone can come and beg for it.