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RE: 💬 Promoting WOX's Top Commenters
It was interesting that when I first launched the initiative in WOX, I received some replies from people who were hesitant about commenting because it appeared to be something that wasn't welcome! Fortunately, by encouraging more people to comment, the people who like commenting have found each other and the community feels a lot more like a community rather than a stage for people to perform.
There will always be users who post and do nothing else, almost invariably delegating any power that they earn to UpVu. I'm still hoping to find some way of bringing comments more to the fore somehow but with the entire system being built around rewards, this is no easy task.
You will never be able to prevent vote boosters from being used. What you can do with the Steem is allowed. So I don't see a way to prevent such excesses. You can hinder them, but you don't want to make that your profession.
But you can design a front end that consistently hides these providers and instead offers advantages that you never had with Steemit. I'm thinking of tools for professional blockchain participants from the content economy. If you want to change something on Steem, you have to think about how participants from the economy could use the blockchain. I can think of a lot and I don't understand why developers haven't found any answers on this topic for six years.
I've accepted that BidBots exist - I don't like them for many reasons and one of my motivations for creating a new front-end is to hide them and their usage (like you suggest).
In the long term, I'm hoping that my front end is more prominent in the world than steemit.com and subsequently, people won't know about delegating to them once they reach 10,000 SP (or whatever target people set themselves).
There are lots of more popular blogging platforms where users get paid nothing and they aren't filled with as much crap as Steemit is. If we can get the new front-end right, we should be able to attract some of these users who will continue posting good content and will be happy with a little bit of money - no matter how small it is.
I just need to find a better way of hiding all of the crap.
This is right. But blogging this is not the only purpose of the Steem. Think about companies. Do thy make incentives for their customers on Steem? No! Do they make incentives at all? Yes, for example they are connecting customers to the expencive Payback system or other "tenth-of-a-penny-data-collection machines". Why not collecting STEEM, HIVE or BLURT? Because of the very poor Frontend Steemit.
This should become one of the functions of any new frontend. Users should be enable to raise fine defined filters. Unfollow and Mute are rough tools only. Users should be enabled to set their own criteria. The user defines what crap is. The developer defines the tools and presettings. You are the very first user of your frontend. So think about how to do it and don't forget to get any feedback you are able to get on the long way of creation.
You never can find it alone. So you have talk to people and listen what they tell you. The most cases the result will be a huge bundle of work.
The Stinc., always at a loss, threw Steemit on market, cheep in design, poor in function but enough functions for to make money very easy. Very good for whales, the are no active bloggers but very active investors.
Any professional using this starving frontend clearly can see how poor the offers of Steemit are. @Dan and friends always were talking about a mass adaption. I used to laugh about. Real insiders of software design hearing such infantil thoughts laughed about. The wish of mass adaption was always bigger than any will of Steemit or the big players around to pimp up the frontend. They all made their money even without any investment for a better frontend. They called the product "Social Media" but producing greed on the blockchain only.
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Die neue Runde ist gestartet - bitte "verschlafe" den Einstieg diesmal nicht... 😉
Both are welcome. This is what the blockchain was created for and that is why it is called “social media”. Imagine how good it is for one on stage to be spotted by a member of a community. This is how an open society works and this is how all Steem-like blockchains should work.
Unfortunately, there are always people who counteract open societies. Socially harmful phenomena such as greed, hunger for power and sick vanity are based on conspiracy, the opposite of social. They produce trolls, serve to plunder the community pool and split or destroy communities, as was just once again well observed on the Blurt.