Have You Tried Musing.io on Steem Blockchain

Day before yesterday my man @nathanmars made a post asking users to share their experience of musing.io. At that time, I didn’t even know what it was. So as we all do, I went to search about it and found something that I hadn’t quite expected but nevertheless very interesting.

musing.io is a Dapp on the Steem Blockchain. Just like Steemit and Busy, you can post content here but in a slightly different format. If you already have an account to access the steem blockchain (like Steemit, Dtube, Dlive, etc.) then you can use steemconnect to login. This is how the musing.io describes itself:

“Musing is a question and answer platform, built on Steem's blockchain, that rewards you with tokens for answering peoples' questions!”

They go onto explain that what they are doing is pretty similar to Quora but with a major difference. That would be the fact that the whole thing is based on the Steem blockchain and thus the content (both questions and answers) can be rewarded. Neither Quora nor Yahoo answers had this system. The only incentive there was to gain a few likes (or whatever they called it).

This model for a website may certainly not be new, but incentivization of a platform based on a question-answer format is quite a breakthrough. The modern-day internet is purely based on making people work without paying them. Every click we make, every alphabet we type is being used directly or indirectly to profit somebody (there are plenty of people who still will argue with this and to them I politely ask to open their f****** eyes).

Yesterday I was discussing Quora with someone here on Steemit and I am quoting myself not because that I said something great but because I am a lazy typer

Last year I registered at quora and answered a few questions and in return a few of them were answered for me. I'll be truthful here, quora started to feel like an expensive hobby after a few days. You waste tons of time answering questions and for your efforts you get nothing...... literally

musing.io makes a few good points as to why incentivizing questions and answers could be a good idea. First, they mention that the quality of answers could be great if people were being rewarded for answering questions. It obviously goes without saying that people would be interested in answering in the first place because they see the rewards that they might get for their answers. Last but not the least is that you already know the intentions of the responder to your question – we are all here to earn something for our efforts. Thus, we have a little less to worry about answers that are affected by endorsement of third parties.

Before I forget, keep in mind that even good questions can be rewarded here too.

….. more will be coming in the next part about musing.io