RE: Pareto and the Beasts: If anyone could do it
That took some reading. Your posts and then the the comments on Ashers post. All the numbers are there, the one that seems to be being ignored is the retention number. 31 Jan 2019=12,045 Authors / 31 Jan 2020=6,326. Almost a 50% loss.
I have no earth shattering skills, nothing really that would make me stand out in a crowd. Content scarcity has been growing on SBC for the last year. The price of steem has fallen during the loss of content for the last year. The EIP hard fork has not helped retain content producers. The army of meaningless down vote bots has not helped retain content producers. The increased curation efforts has not helped retain content producers. So does burnpost help retain content producer? Has anything done during the last year helped retain content producers?
I understand the want and the desire to have the highest quality content available to be viewed and voted on by those who see themselves as investors, I understand their desire to make the most of their investment. They need to start investigating why retention is failing on SBC. Why are people not producing as much content as they were in the past. Eventually there will only be the highest quality content on the Steem Block Chain, because there will only be 10 people making content.
There is hope the SMT's are going to change that and bring more people to SBC, there was hope that the Steem Alliance which is still in the process of forming was going to be able to get real world advertising out there. There is, among a few a desire to piggy back their personal agendas on to the SMT Hard fork. SMT hard fork needs to stand alone, no add on's. Steem Alliance needs to be prepared to hit the streets before the HF for SMT's goes into testing, and need to get the advertising campaign ready to roll.
I know a lot of people still on SBC think the EIP was a boon to Steem, but was it? In some respects yes, in some respects no. It certainly did not bring people to SBC, it certainly did not keep people on SBC. I hope the experiment I joined is not going to end any time soon.
Running short on time this morning and will likely come back to this later, but will add some notes here now.
Yep, retention is kind of a problem, but not that much. The numbers have never been great and a great amount of the posting accounts were actually alts, and as price fell, they became too "expensive" to keep posting on - not worth the effort. Funnily, some have fired back up again recently. Like Kingscrown's - he has quite a few and votes religiously on himself :D
I don't think so. It will be similar to all the other medias rolled into one, it is just that some will stand out more than others. With 500 hours of YT videos uploaded every minute, who actually watches most of it? No one. Same on Medium and likely reddit too. There are bits of random content and a small group of creators that get traction though, and draw viewers.
It wasn't about bringing people, it was about balancing the economics. If anything, it was designed to get rid of a few people. You might see from those charts of Ashes in the comment section to me, that January 2019 compared to 2020, the only account in the top 20 earners that is the same is Steemcleaners.
I hope you have/had a good day at work. I really do not see the slow death of SBC, but I would like to see more emphasis on the part of the "Investors" or the Developer team working more on retention vice driving a wedge between the users/the investors/the content consumers/ the creators.
Retention really needs to be looked at, SMT Communities may help, but dreams of on boarding a lot of people need to be met with retaining those new users.
I did see the shift in the top 20 accounts, but I also saw the shift in the number of active authors, a 50% decrease. I think this user ID Number means I was number 291,360 to join SBC via Steemit. If so that means that 285360 are no longer active on SBC.
I do understand what the purpose of the EIP HF was for, but as when it was being proposed, and as people were talking about it, and urging greater safe guards, it would seem that some of the down vote pool fears are seeing the light of day. We have one down vote army, maybe two now I am not sure, and we have people renting//leasing trying to bully accounts into this or into that, first bulling action was against Pal-net users, then came SBI investors, and then against Asher, yourself, your brother, and others and those that comment on your post and theirs, and now trying to influence and bully people into withdrawing their support of witnesses. All of these down vote retaliation accounts that people/the community can do nothing about.
I hope the SMT hard fork does not get hijacked by the "we need this too" crowd and that it stands as only an SMT hard fork.
On the first comment:
I didn't raise it but certainly raised an eyebrow at the 50% drop. Pretty sure that will pick up soon, in line with price.
I certainly hope it picks back up a little bit, so far the last two major forks 19 and 20 do not seem to have helped much in the retention arena. That is why I am really hoping that steemdev's can avoid the calls to add this or add that to the SMT hard fork and hold to their guns on it being only an SMT hard fork.
Yeah I'm with you on that. SMT is key for Steem to remain something different imo, and I hope this year they appear with a bang.
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