Elitism is not the answer and never was. It’s a niche behavior and “best content” is a niche product. Those who favor the subjective “best content” product are free to increase their stake and reward but the best content in their eyes.
Freedom, live and let live, is an important pillar of this chain and life. Everyone has the freedom to buy more stake and focus on what they want.
Just as everyone has the freedom to post what they want. Irrelevantly of whether that pleases or is tailored to few.
I don’t know what is “more consistent to most social media”. Reddit was initially a link drop and outgoing traffic generator, then once .self and AMAs started it became a super long thread platform. But the rest also continued.
I guess good old-fashioned forums are one of the earliest “social media” platforms. Very often in vibrant communities the “what’s playing now” threads are the most popular ones. Often a simple link drop can also lead to pages long threads.
The smartest and most detailed answer on quora is often the one which goes viral but at the same time quora did receive millions and millions of pageviews from google to “dumb questions” like “best pizza in [city] X”.
IMHO we should focus on dapps. Dapps which provide users a reason to use them, an incentive to contribute. And at the same time remove the complexity of knowing how everything works and what are the best ways to maximize rewards. Platforms, services which provide an experience and have actual potential to increase the userbase growth beyond the main MVP that is Steemit.
But none of the ideas suggested above are mutually exclusive. Live and let live.
Agree.
Easier sign up would also help.
Signup flow definitely needs to be improved. It should be a priority but at the same time signups are a distributed task for all dapps. Some dapps have made great improvements when it comes to signup flow. While I would love to see improved “central” signup flow, dapps will become more and more influential in the signup funnel as the ecosystem grows. Every dapp is a new signup funnel.
Keep in mind we just need one good sign up flow as one user signing up can apply to all dapps. This is the undervalued aspect of Steem/Hive.
It’s one of the main arguments for dapps, a “central” userbase.
This👆
Love this. I want to reward casual posts, you want to reward... Quality.
Whoot we both can!
I also love the idea of shifting the focus back to dapps and delegations again. We need a full social economic society.