RE: Apparently I Have Been Curating Wrong - Appealing To The Masses | Comedy Open Mic Round #30
That is such a misguided article you linked. Sure, the vast majority of users on the more mainstream platforms like facebook, instagram, etc., post shite content. But the vast majority of them also don't get rewarded for posting shite content. The ones who do, typically have some degree of celebrity status, thousands of followers, etc. So sure, of course when (if) Steem becomes more mainstream, there will be even more users posting shite memes and other crap content. But to argue that they should be rewarded for that, or that because most people just want to post crap that actually talented people who post awesome creative stuff shouldn't get rewarded, is asinine. And btw every other platform out there actually goes out of its way to attract and reward actually talented people who post awesome creative stuff. In fact, it is sad to say, most of them are doing a better job at that than Steem is despite the fact that "proof of brain" and upvoting quality content is supposedly the backbone of this blockchain.
I couldn’t agree with this more. The post made me want to bang my head against a wall to be honest... instead I decided to go gif crazy 😜
Yes sadly even though uplifting that exceptional content was always discussed as one of the main goals, I feel @ned and Steemit, Inc. have failed at this aspect. Maybe it’s not too late for a change...
Thank you for the support!
this is a hilarious post...i laugh out loud more than a few times!
there could be a method to this concrete headbanging madness.......like they say there is often solum truth in jest...nevertheless i still thank the blogging gods for @curie & @comedyopenmic 😜
i say we welcome both the mass shit posters and the quality content and let the innovative ones sort it out and build solutions they can monetize like search engines
no to your specific point of rewarding disproportionate shitpost...but the fact that even if we have 50% of reward going to 90% shitpost which they have to mostly buy themselves via bots and 50% still going so-so as well as great content say 10%...then do the math if we have 10million account....i'm happy that 50% of SP goes to shit posters aka 90% of shit posters......that's their judgement, but if 50% goes to even top 10% of the rest....this might actually work