95% of the Steem BlockChain
Is Crap
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Which is NOT really very exceptional
95% of EVERYTHING is Crap
Which brings me to the question.
Why have tabs?
Why have Trending , New, Hot, and Promoted?
They all have the same thing. The same posts are in all of them. The only tab that is NOT 99% crap is your feed. You have control of that. YOU get to select the good from the bad.
It's gotten worse actually. I've been on Steemit since August of 2016. The more bots...the more crap. Bots degrade the signal to noise ratio. The only good thing about them is that they can be muted.
Fun Fact: 99% of all votes are by bots.
Does this make Steemit bad and not worth your time?
No...far from it. As noted earlier you can select what appears in your feed.
MY feed is NOT mostly crap. I carefully select content creators who don't write crap. I weed the list of people I follow constantly.
I don't follow bots.
The lesson to be learned here is NOT to bitch and moan about the poor quality you encounter. Be selective who you follow and do your best to actually curate and produce good stuff.
Yeah bots are pretty much cancer....
Good insights. I use same logic. I read my feed first and not much beyond. If any author starts to inject a lot of crap into the feed, then they are kicked out of my feed.
@ned so this is a point you could use to make positive changes in steemit.com
Provide additional filtering and control mechanisms that allow each person to control what gets into their feed. This would be helpful to the users who want to come to steemit.com for useful content
the new 'community' feature and 'hivemind' will address this issue I think.
Hallelujah brother!!!!!
I am so glad you said that.....bots are some bullshit! I am weeding out bad content people and bots that I followed due to my ignorance in my first month here.. It's month number 2 and it's clean up time. Glad I have found you my friend!
thank you.
as always your milage may vary.
Is that corn starch?
I'm honored that you follow my blog, which is mostly PISS.
everyone gets a probationary period.
Oh no! Now you have me worried. You mean my careful deselection may be nigh?
quality first.
Admit it. You're already hooked.
Bill Clinton admitted to nothing.
Shultz knew NOTHING.
what better role models?
I'm the exception to prove the rule, right?
😂😂
(forgive any purile postings for the next hour - Jack Daniels has me in his grip, and he don't wanna let go!)
If the bots die, will the whales all wilt from lack of pooper scoopers converting their crap into steem?
whales (the rich) are not like us.
they have different motiviations and different reasons to be here.
I don't take whales into account.
I arrived a little late to the round of comments ... but, I think you sent a tremendous message to all the members of the platform, especially those who give their lives for the support of a Bot and they do not help to strengthen the platform; remembering one of the themes of yesterday: they are selfish!
I get a lot of my news from you so it better not be crap news!!! :-D
serious responsibility..
It's sad because it's true ... most of the content is garbage, that's why I'm doing exactly the same thing you're saying, I'm only following people worthwhile, I've been in Steemit for 8 months and I'm only following 95 people.
I follow two types of accounts.
one. Those people whom I 'know', correspond with in comments (like now), and like their 'stuff' to one degree or another. People inside my steem monkeysphere
two. Academic accounts. Like STEM, or updates from the SteemDevs... or others who post technical stuff that I find interesting...
I add and subtract all the time.
One thing that annoys me are constant resteems.
StephenKendall was one that I kicked out of my feed due to excessive number of resteems.
yup..I seem to recall I did the same thing.
I don't much care for 'resteems'.
You've given me an idea that has been trying to break out of my thick skull for several days. Imagine a web page that lists steemit users that have signed a pledge. The page entries would be links to the person's blog page, so that people could easily click in, make a decision, and click "follow".
The editor of the page would serve as an arbitrator and would accept complaints about people allegedly not living up to their pledge. No one would be delisted (unless they delisted themselves), but people who generate complaints would have their listing moved to a separate section at the bottom.
Does anything like that exist already?
not to my knowledge..
BUT.
I think you might have just described 'communities' which is being worked on as we speak.
I am extremely interested in the community feature that I read might be revealed within about 3 months, and I plan to volunteer as an alpha tester/user.
You won't be able to test it on Steemit.
I think they will soon be implement a test chain
you might keep an eye out for it and check there.
I think that I'm on the email announcement list for it.
I think that I'm on the email announcement list for it.
I'm not sure there's such a thing, although I'm not sure I understood the idea of what you were trying to say either.
Within about 30 minutes, I will be able to show you:
http://steemit.ideafarm.com