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RE: If You're Autovoting Me, Stop
If they are autovoting you, will they see this?!
I do think that as more people join the platform, the worse the content will get!
If they are autovoting you, will they see this?!
I do think that as more people join the platform, the worse the content will get!
Hear, hear. So much emphasis is put on getting as many people as possible to join the platform, and not enough emphasis on getting high quality users to join.
I'm sure there are autovoters who won't see this, but at least I tried.
Every policy change since Dan left has moved us away from quality posts.
Changing the 104 week power down to 13; linear rewards, 75/25 author/curators split; all delivering 'fairness' at the cost of quality.
My rewards used to range between 2c and $300 (most at the 2c end), now they range between $20 and $50.
So why not post 4 times a day and make $80 instead of laboring over one incredible post only to take a paycut?
Amen here. You are totally spot on about the posts and creating the quantity over quality with how the current system is designed. I think we need to focus on quality most importantly.
Ah, yes. Fairness. Because, for whatever reason, Steemit needed to become a social media site catering to people who don't know how to social media.
In the name of fairness.
Yeah...I've been saying this exact thing for a long, long time. Rather than catering to actual bloggers who know how to blog and network, the community has decided to cater to those who - quite frankly - suck at creating content and never bother to put in the time and effort to network and market themselves.
The protocol changes that have been made since last spring have been awful. There's no coherence. There's no vision from the "leaders" we have here. There's no real development outside of hobbyists and marketing outside of Facebook group posting. It's a sad state of affairs and nobody wants to listen to actual criticism, whether it's constructive or not. Everything has to be sunshine and fucking rainbows - all day, every day.
Work on something that might actually have widespread appeal or otherwise be useful, and you'll get little support for it.
Create another vote-selling bot or promise to upvote "minnows," and you'll get whale approval for your witness node, delegation from STINC, and the nincompoops who can't social media will throw their money at you for upvotes, even when taking nothing but losses on the "return."
Can't fix abject stupidity, bro.
100% truth. I do believe though that there is no need for fixing the stupidity (since as you correctly said it cannot be done), it just needs to be replaced or at least challenged by whales with a long-termish vision.
I think if the platform is really going to become the go to social media platform there will need to be millions and millions or more of daily active users. But getting high quality users should be a major priority
Oh dear, do you think so? I was hoping the opposite. I don't ever dare to click into the 'New' tab but I find a lot of newbies through reading the comment threads on posts, and a fair few of them are posting some good content.
Some are posting quality content, but I also see a lot of trash getting posted by people who don't really care
This happens on other social media too. I get more memes in my facebook feed than quality thoughtful posts. Most people just share shit there..
Just have to follow the right people I guess to get the good content. I agree with most everything you said on your post though, you have the good problem as opposed to the new people that dream of the auto votes. Dont stop posting though, don't not post because you don't know if its worthy or if the auto upvoters will be made etc... Some people care what you say and bother to respond intellectually. Just focus on those kinds of people.