Steemit Fail
Okay, I understand the goal of Steemit to motivate users to generate unique content. But I have a gripe about this. How do you ever expect to compete with facebook or youtube if you discourage everyone from circulating news about current events previously published elsewhere on the internet? You can't. This is self defeatism. I know this post is going to be controversial, and I really hope it sparks some soul searching conversations here. I see alot of potential with steemit and I would hate to see a valuable decentralized social network fail for lack of foresight.
I don't think steemit is going to fail because of copy-pasting prohibition, it allowance will, you see, the whole system is based on hard (or not so hard) work of authors and commenters, now imagine everyone can get easy steems by just visiting news and copying it, given that, it's matter of time steem as a currency is to fail.
Every cryptocurrency network gives rewards, i.e. bitcoin network gives reward once node proved it did useful work and created longest blockchain, this is done by consuming CPU/GPU/ASIC power. But Steem's core concept is that same mechanism is done by the user considering he did some work i.e. posted content, upvoted post/comment, or participated in mining. And copy-pasting content from other resources is going to kill that mechanism
This is how I see the problem with duplicating content from other resources, but I neved dived in, if I'm wrong at some point, I'd be glad to hear points.
I whole-heartedly disaggree. This medium will never compete with facebook or youtube if we cannot pass along content that is relevant to current events or simply found interesting or valuable. We are limited/left to rely on the "hard (or not so hard) work of authors and commenters" and not the topics of discussion on the broader internet.
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I totally agree. It will fail. There is an art & talent in data collection & the way it can be presented!
They way that it can be collected & unified in a central location to present a message can be Awsome. Even if some of it is "copy/pasted"!
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