RE: HardFork 21 is About D' Vision
Steem is a social media platform first and foremost, posting, commenting and such engagement is encouraged by any of those "visions", after that it's use case is in content discovery powered by rewards for both creating content and curating/consuming it which consequently ties right back into social media for engagement and last it's a platform that can underpin all manner of apps. The reward mechanism is not going to get dumped, ever, as that is what makes steem what it is, so thinking that it's going to morph into "eos 2.0" or the next ETH is wishful thinking among the fringes of the community. That is why math is so important, because the game is "create content, build an audience, and win" or "engage, get rewarded, and win" or "engage, build a following, and win" and right now winning is simply a matter of milking the system for the detriment of the whole network, short term win, epic long term lose.
There has to be a reason for people to care to read it and vote. 5 people having the ability to vote and actually reading isn't going to change that. If we don't have eyes on the site... There will be no meaningful curation.
Why do you think we don't have the eyes on the site. As far as I'm concerned any site in the top 10k Alexa rank has more than "5" sets of eyes on it. We get massive amounts of traffic from all over the web, from web searches especially, and our search ranking is very good because of the incentive to create good content that even though it gets hardly rewarded like the shit content, it is completely irrelevant to a search spider that crawls the web for keywords, those bity spiders love our content, it's new, it's SEO inadvertently by the incentive to
be the best you can be
We are major hub of traffic, bring back the view counter and you will not be able to make any such disparaging remark regarding the lack of traffic. What we need is a good turnover rate, a good retention rate, and then we will explode, network effect chain reaction, and you do that by making the math as good as it can be at encouraging honest behaviors and discouraging dishonest acts. Yeah, vision of a decentralized governance is not crystal clear, and I don't think it will ever be, but those things mesh together, like a good stew.
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