In the wider world of social media and content creation, only a small proportion of the population are natural content creators.
Everyone else is a content consumer and commenter.
I have seen in the past the statistic that only 5-10% of the population have the ability to make good content.
On Steem everyone feels they have to be content creators even if they don't the natural ability to do so.
It would be an interesting experiment if for a month, all the steemcurators only allocated 10% of their voting to posts (the very best) and the other 90% to comments.
How would that change the dynamic of the platform?
Would there be higher quality posts, and many, many more comments?
I as part of team 1 will try to do this experiment, how to find as many content commentators as possible.
Is it possible for comments to be submitted as nominations in the weekly curation report?
After being on the curation team individually for the past month, I've learned a lot and even found comments to be better than posts.
I don't have the guts to do more because it will trigger controversy on the platform.
Even if this is true, we will see users changing their views to write posts (even if they are not natural content creators), they will try to comment to get it.
How will the platform continue in the future?
Your question is right and practical which would not be possible unless the Steemit team gives you a green signal. However, even if the curators complete their quota of upvoting the allotted comments, that will serve the purpose.
Yes, feel free to give this a try...
Love this idea. I have the perfect opportunity to execute this experiment.
Regards,
event-horizon.
Hi, its very happy to know and very positive initiative because people will urge for more interaction with others' posts, in fact without comment sometimese very good posts shows zero engagement.
Oh yeah, I agree with you!
I guess so, as a curator I am proud to say that I curate a large number of comments and I have done this in all my six sessions. However, we must know how to distinguish between comments that add value to content or are the repeat of what the author has already said.
What is a high amount? 50%?
Higher than mentioned in the guidelines. If everyone was doing five I did 8. Isn't that more than usual and regular ones doing?
That is for sure more than usual.
I can't remember I read guidelines telling how much to upvote. The only thing I noticed is that I always bump into long, good, interesting, funny, engaging comments, replies and there's no one who upvotes them except me.
A few more of you and me might make a difference.
"Long" is certainly not my idea of quality anyway because I have read so many long comments that had nothing but the original author written in his post. The "Long ones" were pretty much scoring the points and nothing much. Quality needs no long sentences but adds value to the content.
It is the greatness of social media everyone is an author.
I am sure you read the application and guidelines of Team 2 and Team 1... I am fine with 90% comments only and if there are no comments we don't upvote?
Sorry, but I don't read template-based reports because they are nothing but a few changes of words, and nothing else but all have the standard similar wordings.
I don't consider the application or the guidelines of the team I am part of as the next template. The only template I use is if I moderate but you did make something clear. We can stop wasting our time giving updates about what we intend to do, what we did or did or pretend or tried but didn't work out. You just gave me a great idea. Thank you
You can't do that either lol, because you are bound to report your activities on the dotted lines and read any two reports, you will find them similar with a few changes in the structure of the sentences. Nah, you can't avoid them!
Thanks for telling me you know what I will do? I will not write a report. I don't like reports just like the announcement of the winners it takes me a lot of time. Writing 1000 words goes faster.
You remind me of "Fast Typist" and Dyna of Mylot during 2008-11. We all had a red star on our heads because we used to write comments without stopping. Yes, Dyna got a lot of negging so she was yellow but turned red in the end.
Why will you not write a report? You should write a report even if you do it in your style, like I do without using a template.
True. I always typed fast. I type as fast as I think just phone and computers are too slow. I tried speaking but it makes me think differently.
I simply don't like administration although everyone says I am good at it beside it takes 50x more time to do it with a phone so writing is easier especially if I can lie down and type one without thinking (free writing is relaxing gathering links and pictures, switching screens waiting till it all loads and typing markdown isn't.
If you don't believe me I can bring to my defense that I am crazy, love fairy tales, believe in the same chances for everyone, that you only learn by doing it yourself, and oh yes... I am busy, and have to write because without it I get grumpy, next to that I need time to cry with the wolves and I am old? What do you think? I can make up more reasons.
But suddenly we all turned Blue Star within a few days and that was all due to our typing ability. Yes, I know what you mean when you say you can't survive without writing comments.