RE: Contracts for Newbies? - Steemit development
Nice proposal, however this would only increase the difficulty of getting the platform into mainstream exposure.
Let us face it. steemit.com is not for every one. There is a learning curve of becoming somewhat familiar on how the fuck things are going on here.
For someone who is not much into blogging and crypto stuff, the sheer amount of complexity here would seem too overwhelming for them particularly those who work 8 hours a day.
Ordinary Facebookers would only easily get frustrated upon their first shit posting and realizing no one even bothers to read, how much more after 7 days and all of their activities are hardly making even at 10 cents combined.
This is not for the lay netizen. Perhaps those above-mentioned regulations will be necessary when STEEM price climbs up.
The increased difficulty would be short lived past maybe the first entry screen as behaviours spread. Right now, a new user comes in and without having their own feed developed, see spam and shit posts and think 'Well, this is the way of Steemit'.
I don't mind raising barrieers to mainstream in the short-term while we sort all of this nonsense out with crap content being upvoted be bought votes and delegation
I think it's plausible that it could have a positive effect for noobs actually. On boarding is always going to take a little time and new users expect to have to take a few minutes to get instructed or feel their way around. The proposal here is minimal and actually helpful, I think there will be tolerance of it.
Additionally a little extra instruction could make new users feel less confused and helped out a little, which might translate to them sticking around for those crucial first few minutes, hours and days to get hooked.
It's definitely true that Steemit is not for everyone but I think we're losing some people because they don't know how it "works" (as in, what other users expect and reward) and have misaligned expectations. I think that's the intention.
Yes, I think Steemit throws people in and then habit takes over meaning they fall back onto their normal anti-social social behaviours.
Oh I didn't realize you were willing to make such a strong assertion 😱 I'd like to hear more on your views on that.
Perhaps in a post :P
I think that sums it up nicely.
The undesirable behavior will not be curbed by these measures. The abusers will continue to abuse and it will just be harder for regular users.