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RE: A Call for Leadership - In Response to Inteliguy
Good stuff. I think all we really need is better organization on the website. Rather than everything all being in the same blue and white drawer, we ought to have a wide array of different drawers, like subreddits, each with their own unique personalities. The activity is good but it shouldn't all be on display for newcomers to have to make sense of. When people join, they should easily be able to find their tribes and not have to bother with a bunch of other stuff that they don't care about.
That's a good point, thanks for commenting. I don't think it's all that difficult to find content of interest, and that of course leads to who created it. Is that what you mean be "tribe"?
Have a look at Reddit to see what I mean. People join subreddits that interest them and just visit those particular areas of the website instead of being subjected to other topics that don't interest them. For example, you'll notice a lot of anarchist writers on steemit these days - imagine if those posts were all swept into one convenient little echo chamber so that newcomers don't see it all and mistakenly think that steemit is some kind of anarchist website. Those who want that sort of content would join the steemit/anarchy page and go there while people that just want to read stories about cats could go to the cat-themed page and the two tribes wouldn't have to cross paths.
Yes, but to grow adoption we need more than an "echo chamber". If people are offended so easily that looking at other perspectives riles their emotions then let them either learn how to avoid the places they dislike or go elsewhere. It's only when we encounter different views from our own that we're given opportunities to grow beyond what we are now. I don't think Steemit should cater to the close-minded, it's a poor way to grow adoption and maintain quality content.
I'm not convinced. If people want to see other perspectives, it'll be easy for them to find them. Otherwise, let them shut themselves away and marinade in their own juices. To grow adoption, you give people what they want, not what you think they should want.
I agree with your last sentence, but how you achieve that is subjective. I don't believe isolation is the answer. I feel like the categories or tags, the search bar and a person's feed are good tools to filter content to specific interests and provide sufficient isolation of interests. The feed page alone limits content seen to those who the user chose to follow. IMO one improvement would be to better organize the tags in some determined way, even a basic alpha order is better than the random ordering in place now.