RE: 💬 Promoting WOX's Top Commenters
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... 😉