RE: Are Curation Rewards The Real Problem?
I think that most of the "issues" relating to content/voting/rewards is due to the very low number of users. In my opinion, most of this stuff goes away as the user base expands. When we're talking about 25K, 50K, or 100+K active users, there's no way we could even see all of the posts in a given day. That's when our own little groups will emerge and we essentially just vote on content from them. There may be some trending page voting, but I can't imagine a lot of that will happen - and the SP rewards will likely be diminished per user.
Everyone is too caught up with what's happening right now and they want to make changes based on that. If there's no actual abuse, then we don't need to worry about it. Most of these "problems" are preference related and don't need to be addressed. Blind/Auto voting is a concern, but there's not much that can be done about it, other than not supporting the people running those apps and not supporting the bad (in our opinion) content that they upvote.
As @inertia pointed out - if there is a way to get around the code, then it will be done, as long as there is economic incentive to do so. We can play the cat-and-mouse game, but how far are people willing to go to prevent gaming? And what impact would that have on the platform if/when the economic incentive is eliminated?
My opinion is that we need to wait for this place to grow. If we can expand the active user base to ten times (or more) than what it is now, and also continue seeing stakes change hands and become more distributed, we'll see most of these issues resolved without having to make a bunch of new rules and implement a bunch of new code. For a place that is supposed to be decentralized, I'm seeing far too many calls for rules and coding changes to favor certain content...or to push it out entirely. It's ridiculous - and it's not good for adoption and investment from those who like the initial concept.
Come for the decentralized blockchain and censorship-resistant social media platform! Stay for the infighting and clamoring for more content-based rules!
^ That doesn't work.
sorry, this is empty sophistry. And hypocritical, bought and paid for sophistry at that. Where do you think those 100K new users are going to come from? And what metric from steemits current engagement and retention stats is behind that prediction?
You can tell out content is going to be great because were going to get so many new users. And you can tell were going to get so many new users because our content is great.
Except reality simply doesn't bear that out. We have a problem with bad content, and though it isnt the only reason we have been struggling, its part of it. And it ends up never getting fixed, because many here believe that we can have growth without value or quality. It just aint going to happen.
Yep. Seems some people want to encourage the nonsense.
You make some excellent points regarding the low user-base. I look forward to the day there are enough users and we can have filtering to our tastes in content. Thank you for the thoughtful comment.