AN INVISIBLE DISCUSSION CHANNEL FOR YOU
This is to demonstrate. Please don't upvote.
This is just one way to make a quasiprivate discussion channel for organizing a collaborative project, without having to first somehow coordinate everyone to be on a Discord chat at the same time. The point is, with a single nonsense and obscure tag, nobody else will see it, unless they are looking for it. So, unless a user with extremely large stake vested in steem upvotes such a post, or thousands of ordinary users do, which is all extremely improbable, you can discuss things like stories you'd like to write together and post in the future, without spoiling the content for 99% of everybody else.
Notice that it doesn't even initially show up in trending for #Pencil12345. (Unless somebody upvotes the post.)
The only way then to find it by browsing is with the created for Pencil12345.
Inked comics will be posted. Maybe some interesting artists will be discovered.
Great idea. I wonder how many are already doing this? Will this be found in the blockchain using common phrases or topic subjects? I guess I’m wondering if private conversations cane be found.
If we suppose the authors post the discussion under a less obvious title than "An Invisible Discussion Channel" (title: "Eating Potatoes", tag: "Potatosaladisgood9876") — and that long before the post they're actually collaborating on the channel in making — it's very unlikely anybody will notice it by looking at their blogs. Some people also have secondary, much smaller accounts that don't frequently post and whose blogs nobody would read.
So to answer your question, I've no idea if people are doing this. Very likely. Just as it's very un-likely we can confirm that and be sure.
In other words, can their conversations be found? Yes; but that's not the right question to ask.
Time is money. Searching common topics and words is unlikely to make it show up anywhere near the top, especially because most talk will just be chat. Very few are going to look at the whole list of hundreds of pages of search results just to get unfinished, unpackaged entertainment when they can get the same finished, packaged entertainment the next day.
Private conversations can be found, but with increasingly low probability.
It's like statistical mechanics; some things aren't experienced by the typical observer not because they're impossible but only because they are so improbable.
The way to think about social networks is in terms of percolation and probability.
I was thinking about how hiding secret messages in photos and how those have been found. Conversely, hiding a message in plain sight would work until someone discovered the thread. I doubt the blockchain can hide messages unless it is a privacy coin. Interesting idea.
It's can't hide messages; it's just for convenience for collaboration. Not secret at all. Rather the probability of seeing the discussion, however, is rapidly decreasing for randomly selected individuals both on and off the blockchain, which is good if you might discuss spoilers for fiction content.
Think in terms of population. A randomly selected user is your target audience. You want to discuss a project on the blockchain, but without spoiling the surprise of the content for 99% of your prospects. — That's it.
SHORT EXPLANATION
Like evolution. Suppose exists population A of individuals with a certain gene and a population B of the same species without it. A random individual is selected from each. There are two individuals; the one from A is more frequently surviving in environment E than the one from B, better adapted to environment E.
Exist some from A that are worse adapted than some from B. However statistically it's the other way around. Therefore A out competes B in environment E. Over a sufficiently long time it's all or almost all A.
There are some women stronger than some men; but statistically a randomly selected man is far more frequently stronger than a randomly selected woman.
Now what if the probability increases over time . . . That's the case here . . . Not perfect. Just good enough.
You know what? I just realized that all the flag warriors on this site were probably doing something of this sort . . . for months . . . That's why they had mostly those nonsense tags on their posts . . .
It's like organisms surviving in inhospitable environments to most other organisms. Some places certain entities/persons/amoeba simply don't go. Also, the food might not be to their taste; That is to say, they may simply not care about the private conversations.
It is a little security through obscurity, but it gets the job done--and we're not locking up the gold or anything. I'm very intrigued by this whole idea. By the way, I actually have a paid illustrator for my work, if he's acceptable. He did some artwork for a YA novel I self-published.
Below is an example of his work on my previous project. Unless, of course, you are looking for non-fiction, or a specific genre--which I could also accommodate by finding a thematically similar artist.
Also, not trying to invite myself to your party; However, I am fairly intelligent, fairly entertaining, and--like most writers--fairly willing to try anything.
Well, the content is generally spoiled, but it's not exposed in such a great extent as it could be when tagged with the famous tags.
In principle, yes, but with ever decreasing probability as people use the site. So if it's content that's supposed to be read by several hundred or more, then it's fine.
Agree @tibra. People should know know the name of the tag to discover it.
[MY THEME FOR MY NEXT SHORT STORY WILL GO HERE]