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RE: STEEM has no future if it does not preserve its fundamental source of value: 100% human curation
The key to fixing it is to get people into a forum with truly free speech. And the key to creating such a forum seems to be STEEM.
best one I've seen so far.
it's not without it's problems...but most of them seem to be fixable.
What was your experience on Facebook? My daughter told me that she doesn't think that Facebook can be used for blogging like this, but that she doesn't know for sure. Did you blog there?
I was on facebook for quite a few years.
it wasn't ABOUT blogs...it was for discussion.
I liked it pretty good until they began to censor political discussion.
I found steem
then I bailed...been over a year now and I haven't been back.
WDYT about my idea about using an external site to completely eliminate censoring (by whales) on STEEM by providing external visibility so that people don't need to use the feed pages or trending page?
I'm thinking of basically converting my web site into a poor man's version of an alternative portal. It wouldn't actually be a portal, but it would provide enough information to make it possible to use STEEM without ever looking at a feed page.
I don't think much of it.
for one I'm not too concerned about being censored by a whale.
I avoid whales and they've avoided me.
For another thing...why?
why risk your keys with another site?
I've already been censored by a whale, and I have already seen that discussion here is totally chilled by fear of the whales. My experiment with discussing the possibility that IQ varies significantly by race exposed the chilling on this platform.
What I have in mind won't require any keys. It will be a zine platform where people can publish zines that provide links to posts anywhere on the Internet. Initially, there won't be any automation; it will all be 100% human curation the old fashioned way: editors.
go for it.
let your editors do the censoring instead of whale.
seems reasonable to me.
Yeah, but I will host anyone who wants to publish a zine. The zine editors will compete with each other for credibility, objectivity, thoroughness, etc. My web site will be a sort of magazine market, except that the articles in each zine will just be links into STEEM (or to any other web page). Although these zines might also contain content, their primary role will be to make it easy for readers to find content on the Internet.
my opinion on your IQ posts.
you were asking for it.
so...you got it.
so why complain?
I don't remember having any problem with you, but I did take note that you didn't touch that particular post of mine, and I'm sure that it's not because you had nothing to say on the topic. :)
Censorship doesn't just come from whales. It can also come from "mob thinking", peer pressure, fear of social ostracism, ... I'm envisioning a free speech zone on the Internet where (1) no one is afraid to speak a prohibited viewpoint or open a discussion on a prohibited topic, and (2) no one is afraid to participate in such a discussion, and (3) there is a community spirit that welcomes ANY topic and thoroughly enjoys fully hashing it out wherever doing so will lead.
The University of Chicago was, to some extent, like that, when I was a student there in the late 1970's.
and you weren't censored..
you were downvoted.
you just got downvoted by someone with a LOT of throw weight.
pick on the big boys....piss em off....get squashed....law of nature.
Making a post hidden is censoring. And I think I know just what to do to eliminate it.