Some amazing features that would improve SteemIt drastically
If you have been using SteemIt regularly you probably have thoughts like "if only we could do this easier" or "if only we could do this or that". I have collected some of my ideas from the past year:
STEEM POWER rental
We all have STEEM POWER, but almost nobody uses it 365 days a year, right? What if you go on holiday with no or limited access to SteemIt or something unforeseen happens that prevents you from using SteemIt for a while? Well then it would be ideal if you could rent out your STEEM POWER to the highest bidder. That way both parties benefit: the person who rents out STEEM POWER earns a little bit of money while being away and the person that won the auction most likely has some extra STEEM POWER for a while at a discount.
Collections
This essentially is Youtube playlists for your posts. Right now there's only a "Blog" tab with all your previous posts unsorted. This is one of the most important features we need right now! It will help organize all our posts. I made a simple design a while back.
Quoting feature
It would be amazing for everyone if we can quote original SteemIt content. My implementation would be something like this: there is a quote button on SteemIt clients, if you press that, a dialog will popup where you browse to the post in question, there you copy certain text, the client will then insert the technical quotation code into your post. The technical quotation code is simply the start position and end position within the target post.
Quoting someone could maybe work just like voting: if you quote someone you use voting power and the author of the content you quoted will be rewarded.
Content promotion as investment
Instead of the current implementation where only promoting yourself makes sense, you should be able to "invest" in content of others! I suggest that you earn a percentage of the rewards based on the amount of money you invested in the content. This way everyone wins: the content will be seen by a wider audience, the author will likely make more than if it wasn't promoted and the "investor" will make money if the investor picks the right content!
The history of your investments and their results should be visible in a new "investments" tab.
Tipping
You're probably thinking "TIPPING? We can already transfer money you idiot" and yes that's true, but people are lazy and adding a TIPPING button to posts would remove a barrier for a lot of people.
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The ability to rent steem power out sounds very cool... even if there would be obvious kinks to iron out.
We already have formatting for quoting, but I agree that a button for it would be better. Just type "<" without the " and copy in the quote.
Great example that clearly nobody ever reads the content of a blog and just looks at the earnings. The whole point of the quoting proposal is that you don't have to copy the text, so the blockchain isn't bloated and that the author could earn from it. Please read the whole thing before commenting on it.
Renting SP to simply the highest bidder is somewhat unethical, we know it's going to happen at some point but could cause problems if detectected account votes might be suppressed by whales.
There are some things to think about, but i think in the end there should be a feasible economic & technical implementation that works.
I'm not a fan of the quoting feature, Most of the time I quote someone is to tell him how wrong he is. It's also overly complex and should be very low priority.
Good point, assuming it will be easy to use and you can decide if you want to pay the author or not, would you like it then?
The Contend promotion investment is a completely different scheme than what steem is trying to accomplish. I don't see it.
If you mean that SteemIt wants bad content to make a lot of money then yes you're correct :)
upped and resteemed ! You have a few good ideas here ! Keep up the great work , and best of luck to you ! 👍👍👍
I especially like the renting out steempower and tipping button idea. Great post :)
isn't the Delegating Voting Power feature already included in the HF17-18?