I'm not sure I understand the question. Meaning is my instinct to check out reddit a measure of article length? Like is the compactness of reddit's content part of the compulsive draw?
If that's the question , then yeah, it definitely is - although the subs I frequent usually have longer form content as well. But, I guess ease of mobile access to my feed on steemit would also be a big help in encouraging compulsive use. It's difficult to compulsively scan steemit.com on mobile - and the esteem app tends to freeze up after reading and backing up from just a few posts.
(also side note - what kind of idiot am I saying reddit doesn't have a bot/upvote buying problem)
@dber i totally agree with you about the lack of a good app. Infact i mentioned this in one of comments earlier.
I believe the issue with the platform is that cover photos of articles and reputation score is a means to judge a post. Most of the time even manual voters do not read the post. In such a narrow scenario the content suffers. Desperate means are used to attract upvote via cover photos. Yesterday i end up reading a comment where someone said reputation score is how even without reading the article they vote.
The content is also dominated by memes, blockchain, photography. In fashion tag pictures of models are posted. Tags like history philosophy economics are so away from popularity.
I believe once heed is paid to these issues the platform will grow. Minnows need validation for good content.
I'm not sure I understand the question. Meaning is my instinct to check out reddit a measure of article length? Like is the compactness of reddit's content part of the compulsive draw?
If that's the question , then yeah, it definitely is - although the subs I frequent usually have longer form content as well. But, I guess ease of mobile access to my feed on steemit would also be a big help in encouraging compulsive use. It's difficult to compulsively scan steemit.com on mobile - and the esteem app tends to freeze up after reading and backing up from just a few posts.
(also side note - what kind of idiot am I saying reddit doesn't have a bot/upvote buying problem)
@dber i totally agree with you about the lack of a good app. Infact i mentioned this in one of comments earlier.
I believe the issue with the platform is that cover photos of articles and reputation score is a means to judge a post. Most of the time even manual voters do not read the post. In such a narrow scenario the content suffers. Desperate means are used to attract upvote via cover photos. Yesterday i end up reading a comment where someone said reputation score is how even without reading the article they vote.
The content is also dominated by memes, blockchain, photography. In fashion tag pictures of models are posted. Tags like history philosophy economics are so away from popularity.
I believe once heed is paid to these issues the platform will grow. Minnows need validation for good content.