Quality check: an initiative to rate fitness related content on steemit
This is an initiative to rate the fitness related content written here on steemit.
Upvotes are more a "proof of local popularity" than a "proof of brain".
The goal is to seek for really good content which adds value to the fitness category and to make it popular and upvoted.
Rating grades
- high quality: posts with scientific references.
- medium quality: posts of a fitness professional who write is an opinion with some references from reliable sources (eg. Wikipedia).
- Informative: an opinion or informative post with no references.
- Social: posts with social value only. for example, people who write what they eat, how far they run, selfies, youtube clips of other etc.
- Low: a waste of time posts.
I covered all posts in the fitness category published in 11 hours time frame.
I looked into 62 posts: 8 informative, 35 social 19 low.
No medium or high-content posts were found.
What you can do with the findings?
You can upvote high, medium and informative posts to encourage good quality writers.
List of findings
Informative posts
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I decided to list only the links worth listing.
since I can't cover all the fitness posts published today, you are welcome to add in the comments links you thing worth mentioning (published on 14/02/2018)
I was so happy to hear about the fitness group, because I am passionate about health and fitness, and health is one of the tags I often look up on Steemit. However I am so often disappointed when I click on an interesting title, only to find a dull paragraph copied from Wikipedia or some garbled nonsense about why X is a superfood with no source material.
I have certainly found some excellent posts on the subject of health (maybe more health than fitness) which I would place in the high or medium quality category. Two examples are this one about the importance of good sleep and this one on treating depression with natural light and sleep. It's a coincidence that both these posts are on sleep - I have read other excellent health posts that have been hardly noticed on Steemit, but I don't have them to hand just now.
I write on health quite a bit myself, but I'm not a health professional - my background is in journalism. I like to hear from different voices and viewpoints in the realm of health and fitness. I love reading and learning from the expertise of health and fitness professionals, but I also think there are many amateurs out there who might have a different but equally valid perspective.
I agree.
the posts you mentioned would have a better ranking then most posts found on the health category.
And it is disappointing to see that they don't get the rewards they deserve.
this was the first quality check and i hope to continue doing it, covering more posts and i hope to find more good posts.
Man, some of the people in your social posts category put their heart & soul into those posts. Motivation is one of the most important aspects of fitness and they presented motivational posts that many people will benefit from.
I fully agree there is some crap posted under the health and fitness tags but to pigeon hole people like that seems a bit extreme.
Some of the people you've listed as writing low quality posts (some of them are genuinely low quality posts) are established members (with lots of friends) who could take offence and get upset.
I hope you can make more more friends than enemies here man.
Hi khufu,
thank you for your comments.
social ranking is not good or bad - it's simply different.
social posts contribute to friendship, building a community, have an influence on motivation, but they don't contribute to knowledge.
That's why social has its own category.
I didn't list any users except @chandrakan which look like a bot scraping content from other sources on the internet.
I hope to find people that share my appreciation to high-quality content.
I would like to hear other suggestion or improvements for a ranking method for high quality content.
do you have any suggestions?
maybe you are right.
I think from now on. I will list only the posts that provide knowledge.
Thanks for the shout out @fitnessgroup!