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RE: "Our Corrupt Sense of Fairness" or Steemit's Incessant Rule Changes?
I'm OK with the rules changing in the early days.
The problem is that the rules are changing and it's not transparent to all. There needs to be a changelog that's easy to track and a central repository where the updated rules are published.
Now, I'm scrambling between Google searches and Github, and it's very hard to know what the updated rules are for things like curating, voting, etc. Rules are so important on this platform and there really needs to be more transparency and clarity for all newcomers.
What are "the early days"? Yes, I know there is a "beta" tag but that is someone's arbitrary decision and we are approaching six months in. That state can't continue indefinitely or it causes more harm than good.
I understand that not everyone was around, but from the very start (mining phase) we were told that very clearly that there would not be many or frequent changes. That was described as an advantage over Bitshares and also as a lesson that had been learned getting this wrong with Bitshares. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how well it was really learned.
@sean-king. I agree that catastrophic problems need to be addressed but many (arguably up to 100%) of the changes are not that. They are small tweaks that address various vocal complaints or theoretical or philosophical concerns that may or may not ever matter, and yes as @complexring (and @blocktrades likewise elsewhere) said they are being done without any sort of good scientific approach or method. Not infrequently these changes try to solve one problem by creating one or two more (the original 24->12 change being one simple example). The benefits of these changes need to be weighted against the costs of instability (including the costs of constantly proposing changes even if not adopted) and that balance is out of whack.
Spot on @tuck-fheman
"Early days" is obviously subjective but it often takes startups 2-3 years to find product market fit and get things right.
Crypto projects should be thought of in the same context, imo. The changes must be reasonable of course but if done transparently and reasonably, experimentation is a good thing.
I cannot agree enough! :)
https://steemit.com/steemit-ideas/@tuck-fheman/steemit-changelog-posted-here
wow 3 months ago! nice :)
That should be the no.1 post on Steemit because it is such an important issue. We can't even upvote it now because the 30 days are up. @tuck-fheman please repost it - it is even more important now.
made a new post alluding to @tuck-fheman's old post
https://steemit.com/steem/@ntomaino/echoing-tuck-fheman-from-3-months-ago-we-need-a-steem-changelog
I can guarantee you after I said it 3 months ago, others said the same thing at least 10 times. They started posting a few updates here shortly after creating the "@steemitblog" account and then it seemed to stop and people were simply referred to Github to read code to see changes. =/
Point being, I don't think reposting it will have any affect on Dan and his decision concerning this practice otherwise he would have made this change, and stuck with it, 3 months ago when it was first brought up.
It's been 3 weeks since anything has come from @steemitblog. But I still maintain that the updates/changelog should be posted as a notification that cannot be rewarded and so everyone can see it upon logging in, during this beta process.