RE: The largest REP in the world
Which means that there needs to be an incentive for producing quality content.
I think that there is incentive now and there will be even more in the future, but quality (of any kind) will always be in the minority, which is what makes it valuable.
Time is unfortunately not limitless.
I approach this (as I write more than I curate) by finding people who I believe are builders and supporting them (I normally read what I vote on) and people who resteem quality and I can find new people to support, some I follow too. I don't have the hours to spend searching, but I am pretty good at finding through the network connections.
. It's still like trying to find a needle in a haystack for good, original, content.
I think that communities will help with this a lot as they have the chance to onboard people directly into where their interests lay, instead of a content soup. There are some good curation initiatives out there, I wish there were more at this time with stake.
I think onboarding will have an easier time in the future and trying to repair what the current situation is might be futile as so much more can be created that is fundamentally better, not just a patch.
I agree, but is quality on Steem actually being given the value that it is worth? I'd argue that the answer is "no" more often than "yes". Which is why I say that the incentive does not yet exist.
I just read a post from @paulag that indicated communities have quite a long way to go before they are to be considered the "solution". Based on her comments, it appears that communities have far missed the basic mark of what might have been expected in any sort of "first launch".
The fact that P2P direct messaging is not available in a community is a severe oversight from my perspective. Sure, I'm cherry picking a flaw, but communities have been discussed for years and that's something that I feel
that most people would have thought to add-in from the start.
I'm not trying to be negative, it's just disappointing to see such massive potential get floundered so often. It's like Steem never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity... Hopefully someone figures it all out for Steem soon, or Steem will quickly be replaced by the competitor who saw epic failure after epic failure on Steem and decided to make their own (better) solution.
Again, I'm still on the Steem Train.. I just need to see more success. It's been a long road of "the next big thing is coming in 3 months!" followed by "the next big thing is coming in 3 months!" and when it finally arrives, another 3 months later, the blockchain crashes for 90%+ of users for 3 days..
The incentive is there, but it depends of timeline and perspective. The immediate return is not available for most, unless living in a very cheap country.
The community framework is just some code. What needs to happen to make them really functional is to have apps built for them in the same way, Appics, Steemhunt or others have built for the basic blog. Once developers start thinking wider, a lot of innovation can take place.
The crashes need to be sorted out, instead of people worrying about their missed earnings. As I see it, stability is fundamental to SMTs, not the reward pool, as every SMT will have its own.