RE: The Steemit Post Experiment - Everyone's Here for the Money
interesting critique.
Personally I read every post I vote on.
There are a select few I follow whom get my priority, but even then I'll only vote up on content that I find interesting.
But it's true that, given a platform whose main allure for some might be money-making, we'll see a high turnover for those not ready to work through the slough and keep at it.
We'll lose all the people who thought they could do a Get-Rich-Quick using Steemit, and who are disillusioned by the weird tradition that makes their introductory posts worth up to ten times more than the next 10-20 posts they make.
We probably also lose some who get annoyed or lose interest after a while. (I personally completely forgot about Steemit for 2-3 months... I've just restarted Steeming 4 days ago XS).
Hm... what we lack might be a kind of recommendation feature, so that the curators who do actual curating ( as opposed to a bot upvoting everything by X 2 seconds after it's posted) can get together in groups and vote amongst themselves to create weekly Best Posts in all the different categories.
I could imagine having a kind of newsletter like that...
Another option could be a recommendation feature so you can selectively allow some people you are following to recommend posts to read. like sharing on a friend's FB wall works nowadays.
There's a lot of features yet to be implemented or thought up, Steemit still has some growing pains to go through.
I suppose the resteem option covers most of that, although I'd sure like to know who resteemed my posts - there's a lot of development yet ahead of the team, yes.
I agree. Howerver, Steemit is yet to become popular in poor countries. 10 SBD may be nothing to a Westerner, but it's a good daily income in many countries. Hence the multitude of copy pasted content, poor English and, I soon suspect, pornography. Let's hope it's artistic pornography :)
True.
hmmm... some of them, at least, will try with original content I think.
I have hope for the platform !
We'll see what happens in a year or so when all those global-internet plans come to fruition and EVERYWHERE suddenly has a connection for no other cost than creating a bloody FB profile or whatever "free as long as you do ..." scheme they come up with to monetize the systems.
I just hope those that do manage to earn a living wage somehow help their local communities too, and don't become social recluse sitting in front of the computer 24/7 copy-pasting for their daily Steems... That would be VERY unfortunate XS
Well said!