Let Us Make Steemit Great Again

For the sake of argument let us assume that steemit.com has been the social media exemplar for greatness.

But how do we exactly define the word greatness when applied to this particular case?

The answer is obviously subjective. There is no definitive answer on what makes Steem truly great. You might notice that I am interchangeably using the words Steem and Steemit on my context.

To simplify things I am referring to any Steem platforms that make use and/or capitalize content production as a way of money making.

Now I am bringing this to the table in order for the community to see and weigh in my little tiny voice barking into wilderness.

Let us begin with Bubblews.

Back in early 2013, when bubblews.com was as hot as steemit.com today, people were gravitating towards the platform like a flock of hungry crows.

Just like Steemit does, the goal was to participate in the content creation in a hope to bag a portion of the reward pool generated via third party advertisements.

Steem however is on a completely different domain since the system is not sustained by adverts but by stakeholders and the active participation of community members.

Praise be with us!

Critics at the time were very uncomfortable regarding the sustainability of the Bubblews ecosystem in the long run. In fact their prediction was vindicated when in November 2015 bubblews.com finally decided to shut the system down for ever.

Bubblews relied heavily on advertising revenue for the distribution of incentives among content producers.

I am not saying that Steemit will ultimately follow the same footstep because we know they were NOT on the same league in terms of where they money comes from. But, it could really happen one day if we don't fix our own shit.

The thing is, even though Bubblews fell short to live up to its promise, the noble goal of incentivising social media activities, it has on one hand succeeded in the implementation of some basic writing guidelines.

This set of rule that I am talking is basically the essence of what the title of this post is about.

I am not talking about Donald Trump moving away from Twitter and take over Steemit! lol

But if that is the case, it would probably be his most badass accomplishment being the newly elected president of the United Steems. What do think?

In this article I prefer not to touch more on the other criteria of publishing a post and instead focus more on Word Count.

Bubblews, given the limited technological sophistication back then when compares to today's advancement, was nevertheless keen in enforcing its sacred rule.

bubblews.com implemented a minimum of 400 characters per post. It was a sort of micro blogging platform but I did see a lot of articles though that truly comes in a long form publication and well thought out.

After all, 400 characters was just the minimum so why the fuck limit yourself when you feel you're not done yet?

Doing so is like having sex without romance with the sole purpose of replicating the Big Bang right here, right now. How unsatisfying, isn't it?

In Bubblews' case, violators were not getting flagged but were not getting paid instead. And that was even more off putting but we know it is unlikely to be the case on Steem. So keep calm and steem on.

Now I am not saying that we should also imitate those numbers, that would be an understatement in proportion to the platform's revolutionary potentials.

Let us double those figures here for fuck sake, or better yet make it at least 1000 characters or higher.

We are publishing here for free while earning in return. Let us put some value towards the platform if we are to make this a long lasting journey.

We have witnessed for ourselves on how effective the bot @cheetah is in its daily mission of detecting plagiarized content.

My point is that why not create a similar bot with a special task of flagging those posts which do not meet the minimum number of characters or words? Task force minimum sort of stuff!

Of course, let us not act like a freakin' government where ignorance of the law excuses no one.

Nah, there should be some level of warning with a corresponding voting power in every offense. This is to observe proper due process and fair judgment.

This, in my humble opinion will decrease the number of crappy shit posting we see around even though the word quality is subjective.

And will somehow increase the reputation of the platform which in turn brings a positive impact to the whole STEEM ecosystem in general from the outsider's point of view.

Am I missing something here? Let me know in the comments.

@introvertspeaks