RE: We Really Need SubSteemits To Be Implemented As Soon As Possible
I believe what the OP is talking about is "Content Siloing", which is something reddit does through subreddits. Each piece of content belongs to a specific silo within the site, and that silo is highly curated to only allow relevant materials.
Currently the tag system we have in place is doing a terrible job of siloing. Tags are being used inappropriately - causing most of the tag pages here on steemit.com to be just a jumbled mess. Occasionally a large stakeholder in steemith will issue a threat saying "I'll flag anything with inappropriate tags", but that's not a good solution, as it requires constant vigilance and is impossible for a single person to do, especially given the limited payout windows.
To draw the comparison further between reddit and steemit, steemit.com's homepage right now is just like /r/all on reddit. It's shows everything, all tags, sorted by the "hotness" factor (payout in our case). It honestly doesn't make for a homepage that's all that appealing, except to those with a lot of power. There's also probably good reason as to why /r/all isn't reddit's homepage, and instead reddit uses a silo'd approach to the default subreddits.
To answer your question of "what features do they need to have", in order for steemit to move to a silo'd approach, we would need:
- A mechanism to allow for one "tag" that would act as the Silo. The post would only show up under that tag.
- Limiting each tag page on steemit to only show posts that used that single "Silo" tag.
- A mechanism to allow the community to adjust the silo'd tag on a post. For example, a great post that used "gaming" as the silo tag and "league of legends" as an additional tag, but is 99% about league of legends, should have the tags swapped so "league of legends" is the silo'd tag. Pseudo-moderation.
I don't know that any of this would necessarily work in the steem ecosystem, but I think it's worthy of the discussion. Currently what we have isn't good, and a better solution needs to be worked out. Hopefully the OP, your comments, mine and everyone else's will help lead to that conclusion.
Yep. This is what I'm trying to beta test with stuff like #steemit-hunt. I think we can (for now) just make do with having groups of people be thoughtful about using tags and self-policing.
Then we can also build alternate client front ends which are optimized for different kinds of use cases.
Of course, @jesta's #steempress project might very well be used to have individuals RUN those separate "sub reddits" in even more of a distributed way, even with separate domains.
It does bring up the issue of trust. What to display / what not to display / algorithms for content sorting can very much influence what people see, which influences how they vote.
This guy gets it :)
Great comment, This is really what I meant by SubSteemits, There should be a discussion about improving the Steemit front page, because as you've said, currently Steemit front page isn't appealing to everyone.
Thanks :)
I've been putting a lot of thought into steemit lately, and I think you're touching on an issue that many feel. I hope we can get some good discussions going about it and help spark a change that'll benefit us all.