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RE: Thoughts for Curation Guilds
So called 'curation guilds' are mis-named. Do the 'curators' actually read the posts, think about them, and evaluate the value?
I'd be surprised if they did.
I suspect that the name should be 'processing'...they process the steem-stream. Something akin to desalination.
I do. I've been doing it very carefully over the past 5 weeks as a kr tag community curator.
Are you talking about the situation today, or what they are proposing to add? Nobody really knows how they are going to work, but it would be up to each guild to decide on what/how to vote. In theory, guilds that were not doing a good job would lose their backing from the SP holders who were delegating their voting power.
today..."curation" 'bots' for example.
The whole point of 'curation' is an inhouse replication of a free market economy. That is...you read a post (analogous to a newpaper or a paperback book)...you like it...you buy it..
Only we got the order wrong. We get paid (bribed?) to upvote something. I suspect the majority of which never gets looked at by human eyes. There's a disconnect. To work well it should be reconnected. I dunno how.
I agree that today it's bad. I think most people do too. The proposal of curation guilds is intended to address that very issue. I'm really hoping that it will work!
It would seem to me that 'curation guilds' and ' voting bots' are gaming the system.
at the moment I have 1,718,735 units from posting. During the same time it took to get that I have 4,473 units from Curation.Three orders of magnitude lower I think? Millions vs thousands. Perhaps I should be less concerned with what pays less and more concerned with what pays more?
Would you rather have the whales using voting bots or curation guilds?
Do I have a choice?
Replying here due to nesting.
If it were up to you, which would you prefer the whales to use? Voting bots or voting guilds?
Suppose I chose neither?
The IDEA is to read something, like/dislike vote/not vote/ flag.
.The very concept of guilds presupposes processing.
In fact I wouldn't argue to hard against eliminating curating rewards altogether.
but it's irrelevant. The whales built this place. They offered to let me come in and play.
I'm doing that.
If I invited someone to come play in my sandbox and they started complaining about the toys I might just kicke them out.
So I'll just wait and see.
Because money is involved, the system needs to be setup in such a way that it can determine which content is "good". If there was no curation reward, there would not be very much incentive for people to spend the time finding good undiscovered content. They would just upvote for their friends stuff, and random things they came across that they liked.
You should read the comment from @luzcypher in this post. The post itself has nothing to do with curation, but the comment does a really good job explaining its importance.
Hehe, yeah. I totally agree. I have that exact same thought when people go on rants about how much this place "sucks". I'm not against constructive criticism and feedback (even this post has one thing I disagree with Ned on), but this place wouldn't exist at all if it weren't for Dan/Ned and the people who designed/built it and helped bring the system/community to life. We are interacting in a world that they created for us, and we should be thankful it is as awesome as it is :)