Clarification
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So what you're saying @whatsup is that we should stop focusing on making every single post top tier OC and start making regular ass posts like this?
So what you're saying @whatsup is that we should stop focusing on making every single post top tier OC and start making regular ass posts like this?
While this might be a little further than what I was saying in chat.
I would like to see casual engagement on the site, there are more people who want to post casually than those who want to be Author's when they grow up. Since the learning curve is high and curation relatively low, it would be great if people just moved about the platform! :)
yes i would like to see more casual posting and I remember @inertia once talking about how your steem blog should be seen as a "firehose"of data, a raw feed, while different front ends like Dtube or Dmania providing the sort of filtering etc (That is, until communities/hivemind comes out then that will do the filtering)
Wil the new subreddit hivemind system be just like reddit? And will the new front page just become its own subreddit or substeemit/community just called "trending" or "frontpage" like on reddit (or is it reddit.com ?) because reddit ALSO started out without subreddits then subreddits were added, and the front page of rteddit now just shows you a collection of top posts from many of their popular subreddits including some way to allow popular posts from obscure subreddits to trickle down or up? onto the front page...
I feel like with enough communities on steem we could end up with a BEAUTIFUL new trending page where if you want to actually buy an upvote, you still have to PICK a community to post, just like on reddit, or just have it posted ON the steemit.com front page community which will be the i guess "default" one while "steemit" will just be a community about steemit itself I suppose....
I am just wondering how the future of steemit will look like after hivemind/communities and I just am excited about how much like reddit it can allow us to become and in my mind, becoming like reddit just means having more highly engaged users for a wide variety of topics and a huge overflowing wealth of daily content in so many topics that we should never be able to read it all.. i want steemit to have so much interesting stuif just like reddit and I just know we will eventually figure it out, and get the GUI looking so good that reddit users cant resists trying out steemit!
My solution is in the tags.
I've only ever seen Steemit as a proof of concept of what is possible on the STEEM blockchain. I believe that the solution comes from a combination of what both you and @walden were talking about. I believe that we need a new interface that gamifies social interaction in a more productive manner, but we also need the founding members of the platform to set the tone as well.
Communities will help to play a larger role in this as I'm currently already planning one that caters to the @informationwar community, and then you're also somewaht involved in the memeit.lol community. Both of these have the correct approach of further gamifying things in a manner that incentivises social interaction while cultivating the skill level of the users in hopefully in a better direction than current
I'm not actively involved in memeit.lol one of the guys working on it comes into SteemSpeak and I gave him some feedback.
I agree the mid-term solution is to allow people to find others with similar interests.
Yes I am resteeming this to encourage the behaviour os just making shorter posts sometimes, more to the point, preferably with an Image, Video, or even just text like on reddit
reddit is working well we need the content of reddit we can reach a reddit zen actually its not that difficult to create artificial reddit gravity, to reach a natural reddit style orbit or natural user submitted content thats interesting enough to bring users back and back for free!
https://steemspeak.com users eat free! (post here ill upvote it since i resteemed)
We should encourage https://reddit.com/r/bitcoin and 4chan biz http://boards.4chan.org/biz/ to come post here, we should be making posts about steem everyday on these websites without fail and it is hard to start a daily habit but when you start it up you can get apps and make a simple habit, like when you wake up or before you sleep or as you walk out the door everyday you can actually take out your phone on the reddit app or 4chan on your phone browser and make a simple post all about Steem and how much you have made everyday, show how much crypto it adds up to, i think people will be jelous when they see how much beer or food or cannabis or gold or cash in hand that posting on steem can help earn you over a month or so, and you can start showing these updates to 4chan and they will eventually feel like they are definitely missing out when they see a website like steemit that they have NEVER seen before, where a MILLION people compete over over a million dollars a week every day 24 hours a day, ... a reddit where you cannot get censored, everything is stored on a blockchain and its thousands of times faster than bitcoin and users get PAID in what is essentially as GOOD as Bitcoin or any crypto of your choice thanks to @blocktrades
Ill link this post to a 4chan or reddit post that I will make later
(GIF I commisioned by @web-gnar local steemian GIF and meme artist )
I would like to see informal engagement on the site, there are more those who need to put up casually than people who need to be creator's when they grow up. because the learning curve is high and curation enormously low, it'd be exceptional if human beings just moved approximately the platform!
most people don't even respond to their comments