Is This Steemit? Or An Annex Of The Free Republic!
I swear! I was talked into coming here by my friends in the Anarchy. All that I have found since I've been here is a 'nest' of ultra-conservatives with an 'axe' to grind! If there are ANY left wingers here please prove it to me that you ARE there! This is supposedly a 'free' forum, yet I get screwed by Freepers & Trolls just about every post I have written on this platform so far. My posts are 'controversial', but I didn't think they would draw anybody other than those interested in political discourse. I've met a few very 'good' conservative debaters! But I've also met a contingent of trolls here as well! As a matter of fact, I've had more trolls here than on Facebook. If you are a left winger, get a hold of me @terryrall We need to form a progressive voting block!
Good luck... I don't identify as a conservative. I am a straight up anarcho-capitalist, a voluntaryist, and you will find that a large portion of members of Steem are also.
But I will say one thing. Though it does not exist now, there will eventually be a way to create groups within this system, my proposal involves a sidechain something a little like Namecoin but with a membership list that is moderated by the holder of the private key associated with a Name.
Your proposal of forming such blocs could be implemented using such a system. You are also not the first person to talk about this. One of the other features that I want to implement is an instant messaging system based on the SteemHordes name/membership blockchain I mentioned above. It would use something like the mechanism underlying Bitmessage, which essentially is a blockchain where old blocks have an expiry duration after which they can be dropped by nodes on the network.
This blockchain then distributes the posts made by users, and while posts are unexpired, you can intercept them and see what they are, and make your own... but these will be filtered out by the chat system if you are not an accepted member of the group - but nothing would stop you from watching. Private groups would add the feature of an encryption key which your client encrypts your message to the listed members within the designated Horde, enabling privacy as well. This will be a later added feature. Public chats that link to groups within the Steem blockchain post stream would be very useful, I think.
I will quit yammering about this, and get back to making it happen.
haha ... watch it; the comment will get more votes than the post itself; anarchy at work
You hit that nail squarely on the head...that comment deserves upvoted! I gave you an upvote for making a valid point!
This isn't yammering! It is sheer brilliance! I mean it! This platform runs rife with 'trolls' that are adding NOTHING to this platform what so ever...Facebook has 'fewer' trolls IMHO...that's because they KNOW they can be blocked there...Here they KNOW that their 'crap' will stay on the block chain FOREVER!...so they are trashing up the platform! It's eventually going to ruin this platform with a bad 'rep' overall...Nobody wants to come to a platform where they basically pick up 'fleas'...Thanks for the comment! It was a 'good' one!
Thanks. I will do my best to make the means for people to access these extensions to Steem as quickly as I can. I don't think it is at all appropriate for them to live on the central blockchain, because the main blockchain is PoW whereas the one I am proposing does not need quite such strong immutability, and will never grow as large. Thus it can be a secondary system, a 'child' chain if you like. The chat system i just proposed, would exist as a 'child' of the SteemHordes chain.
I think that the message will start to get through to the top, and get the attention of whales too, who will reward especially those who have been hammering hard at getting this attended to. Like me. I sure would love to be a part of implementing the ideas that I came up with as solutions to problems I see. I think if these two child chains were added to the Steem system, we would have the basis of a Facebook killer. It would also help curators, who could then specialise in topic areas (nothing stopping you from read only viewing groups, nor voting up their posts).
There needs to be something done about indexing the blockchain as well. I know there is people building blockchain explorers, these probably will include search systems so it may not be long before Steemit has a real search engine.
Steemit.com has 'beta' in the little logo on the top left for a reason. The core functionality already exists, but it is not completely debugged and by this, in beta, I mean functionality-wise. Like the issue you mention, this is a bug that is not inherently a problem with the core system, but a feature that needs to be added, in order to address a weakness in the system, that cannot be addressed within the core without a massive restructure, fork, etc.
@l0k1 ...These comments actually make a viable post in themselves! Do you have a comprehensive post on this? I will definitely vote it up!
The majority of my posts are actually about this. I am in the process of doing software development and I have already observed that steem-enhancing software projects win a lot of votes, and if I am to spend my time really digging into the work, the money helps me spend more time on it, so it's win win all around.
The thing that will keep Steem at the cutting edge will be precisely this, and the way its' architecture fosters this, is what will be the central core element of its design that keeps it at the front and moving faster forward than any crypto so far.
By the way, have you noticed that the 'mute' button now works? I posted an issue on the steemit.com github about it, in two days one of the contributors submitted a patch, and a couple of days later the site went down for maintenance and there is quite a number of bugs that have been fixed. If you see a problem, it's worth getting a github account, and posting the issue on the steemit.com github project page. I have already seen one oddity, where certain transactions in the wallet page launch the trending page underneath, this is a bug but so far it's not causing me a big problem, and I expect it was an inadvertently added issue as part of other fixes.
Posting about it in here isn't necessarily the best way to address an issue you see. The steemit.com github, and writing your own software solutions, I think are the keys. The latter especially can be profitable because as this platform grows, issues related to its size become more visible to more people, just as you have observed.