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RE: Skinner Box: How To Control People Habits And How Games Abuse This
Technically Steemit reward system is also a Skinner Box scheme since it offers a reward for making posts that. But at least here there's a system that imposes limits, like voting power for example... it's not perfect yet so it can be improved!!
Was actually going to say Steemit hits pretty much every aspect of Skinner Box scheme. You're encouraged with the time factor to contribute x amount of upvotes/time a day for best gains, act in a really programmatic way, mindlessly grind, etc
It isn't healthy whatsoever, as you can see as it's encouraging a lot of bad habits, low quality interaction (or lack thereof), and trivial achievements.
Yeah... the system actually encourages "low effort posts" if you're Whale enough... but at least the Community (not all of them but....) values the Original Content so it's doing a counter-balance for that....
If this was reddit-like community the result will be much worse.
Ah! @teslalifestyle 3 weeks ago I wrote a post titled : ' We are not minnows, we are rats! ' and it explores the very things you mentioned. Basically, Steemit x The Skinner Box! :))
@ahmadmanga I love your post! I love all things Skinner! 🙂