RE: Announcing Project Curie: Bringing Rewards and Recognition to Steemit’s Undiscovered and Emerging Authors
It has nothing to do with controversy, rather diversity, politics, religion, photography, Steemit, these are all topics getting a lot of coverage. As a result, lots of people are misstagging their posts just so they can be seen.
It's not that we have anything against controversy, if you read mine and quite a few members of the team's articles you'll realise that. We just want to see a diverse range of subjects being rewarded, which increases the chances of people joining because they feel they have something to offer outside of 4 or 5 subjects.
Cg
EDIT: With titles such as your latest post, calling Steemit a pile of shit, on a personal level, I will never put anything like that up for being voted, because it sounds, angry and negative to me, and if I am going to promote controversy, I will do that without being spiteful and rude.
If that offends you, then I guess we are offending each other, because I clicked on you to read some of your articles, however that title puts me off as it gives me a fair flavour of what they will be like. Each to their own though, and you may find that one or more of the team supports your brash style.
That's what diversity is all about.
Good luck.
Cg
I saw that too. Personally, i think the #curie team is one group trying to improve the user experience by rewarding talented effort, which will increase the quality of steemit over time because we will be able to (hopefully) retain more talented and professional users.
I agree with a lack of centralization and censorship, but this particular group has set some specific framework in which to operate. Just as they had the freedom to create the group in the first place, they had the freedom to set parameters in which to operate.
To respond negatively when people are attempting to do positive things is unfortunate to see. People can choose to be here, or they can choose to leave, but if I thought that Steemit was a P.O.S. I would leave.
Keep up the good work!
To be clear, my title was controversial on purpose, I think that it's a Steeming pile with potential. Many of the positive replies including yours have shown that underneath there may actually be some magic ;)
I've used a similar image before, but I created it as a new logo for those 40-some immediate upvote bots that were upvoting every article in #steemit some time ago.
I told them that the first 40 upvote bots to hit my post would be the winners of the image to use for their introduction post, since none of them had made one yet. Within minutes, 43 or so had hit it, and I laughed like crazy.
I'm glad that I could encourage you and that the positive replies were well recieved.
Thanks so much for you reasonable reply and straight forward explanation.
While you may have thought I was being rather negative I don't consider myself a negative person and would like to start of by saying that if your intention was to encourage people to post, well it worked. I posted something and I hadn't for a while.
Having said that my post was really directed at the attitude of some on this platform against controversy and your guidelines did rub me the wrong way, as my title rubbed you the wrong way.
I sorry you didn't like the title, I think this community needs to look at what it's doing to encourage controversy as that is the whole point of a censorship resistant platform. At this time I feel it's not a place I can recomend to others with controversial views, and that's especially sad when I see them being punished for those views on other platforms.
That post is actually the highest paying post I've ever had and I have this post to thank for it. Ironic isn't it :)
Thank you