RE: Proposal: Bringing A Twitter Like Service to SteemIt
I like the idea of striving for this attention economy. I think the voting process should be much diferent on a microblogging service. Where on twitter there are diferent measures of engagement: simple impressions, detail expands and then likes and retweets. I see a service where just seeing a tweet or 'zapple' (hate the name but that is just me) will commit enough vests to essentially pay for the service's existence.
Now obviously likes and other features will be worth more. I think care should be given to simplify the rewarding: very small % upvotes for most all actions. Tips should be what constitutes the largest portion of rewards.
Given the size and immaturity of the steem blockchain, a microblogging service could quickly turn into just a few users making almost all the rewards for content that is not getting enough views to warrant those rewards.
We could agree for the most part yeah posts shouldn't be worth that much. But the community don't do well with apps trying to control their voting power. There is plenty of time to talk it over with the community as the app is being worked on.
You also got to remember a new reward curve is likely coming so those big massive votes from whales are going to be reduced a fair bit. So if you reached a 100 dollars from a couple hundred of people that's pretty fair.
But then again short form posting these days can hold a lot of impact in the world. So idk if its really fair to say who's posts are worth what. If people don't agree with the worth of the post they will flag it as such as they do now.
Well I'll be here for the experiment!
Well thanks.
I don't think that's what's happening here. It seems like these guys (this guy?) are going to use the Steem posting operation for their "tweets", which means rewards will come directly out of Steem's general reward fund. This means that ordinary Steem whales could still shut down abuse with downvotes, and whale upvotes will still be necessary for content to get 100s of $.
Certainly right. There is a lot to get right if steem is the universal media chain. I honestly expect something else to learn come along, learning from steem, LBRY etc.