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RE: My Top 5 Gripes About Steemit
I don't know about the other items you mentioned but I am very thankful on this wonderful turkey day, to learn about the one hour password situation and I'll change mine before bed some day soon. Thank you!
As to your soonfest - Please add a seminar discussing the upcoming:
Steemit Mean Girls Red Paper
The top 47 things that might make a whale downvote you.
Avoid these tactics so that you do not screw up and have your rewards wiped out on this censorship-free platform :)
The blockchain is censorship-free, not Steemit nor any other website displaying post on the blockchain.
I think it's important to make that distinction because it helps people avoid the confusion of thinking their post was censored. All post are always viewable on the blockchain and they cannot be censored by anyone, and anyone can make a website displaying all or only certain content they wish to display.
I think down the road we will see more individual community websites dedicated to one single topic or range of topics that closely mirror one another in some way, and only those topics will be displayed on those sites.
It will be like picking and choosing which topics from the blockchain a sites userbase wishes to be displayed, Steemit is the first example and it's creators and userbase have choosen to display most every topic on the blockchain. Other sites may choose differently, and one may only display post that were flagged on Steemit to give balance. You never know, but it's possible and likely to happen at some point if not already.
The concept you are talking about reminds me of fb groups - which I still use and which work beautifully. Like-minded individuals in a semi-private spot talking about one topic. But groups don't work unless you have a big user base though and the 7000 active here on steemit is meager to say the least.
I guess I will call it "soft-censorship." Yes, posts 1, 2 and 3 are still on the blockchain, but the person never posted 4, 5 or 6 because of the down-voting. And then maybe they quit in disgust.
Here! Here!
And perhaps the reason that communities are not yet present on the Steemit UI?
Discord and the like could be argued as one offsite representation, and I'm undecided at present as to their benefit to the Community as a whole.
I remember you replying to me a few months back regarding a site that introduced a community type setup, and that it did not work at all.
Apologies for the reply hijack 😊
No problem - I am always glad to hear from you :)
It was tsu - a very similar place to steemit that collapsed with 3 million members when the groups came in. That was the same time as steemit started and a few of the tsusers were lucky enough to jump over here in July and August 2016. I declined because I was so disturbed by the failure of tsu.
I don't go in chats and I'm against them in general. Too much scamming and THE VERY REASON we don't have comments here. The active people are blabbing away in chats for free and hidden. Then they come out here to post about their fights in the chats and downvote each other. No benefit to steemit at all in my opinion.