Some suggestions for the future of steemit--Breaking from Limitations.

Introduction

Steemit is a great platform for people from all works of life to interact and post compelling articles that affect their lives in one way or the other.

In steemit, you are a blogger without developing your own website. Yet you get paid for it! This is why I believe that steemit is a threat to many popular social media out there.

Everyone needs money. The fact that you can make money while talking to people and posting articles with events around you makes steemit unique. It is only a matter of time before it poses a serious threat to the conventional social media.

By the way though I'm giving out some suggestions I feel bad giving suggestions because sometimes I feel like it comes off complaining, but at the same time I know that if some of these ideas are implemented it would be even a better platform for everyone!

Disclaimer:

what comes to the hardcore nerdy stuff, I’m a total noob, but I know my social media. From what I’ve heard, the blockchain technology behind Steem is top notch so that is nothing to worry about. I’ll be focusing on the things on the surface of Steemit platform.

Here are a couple of things to consider while on our way to the moon:

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Let's stop Bribing new users.

We have all seen the poor schmucks who have had girlfriends we knew only stuck around because of the money. Well Steemit is the equivalent of those guys. The perfect example was in the movie, "The Wolf of Wall Street". He left his loyal wife for the other woman who only wanted his money.

If Steemit allows itself to be used, the leeches will show up en masse and drain the rewards pool. Then they will move on to the next target as soon as they are not getting what they want. My point is, We should be welcoming to new users but there are other ways of doing that than simply throwing money at them.
Many people come onto this site with the expectation of being paid for their content. The reality is much different. Unfortunately, people initially take the lack of reward as a commentary on their content (which it should be but isn’t). Most “on boarding” posts I’ve read have pushed marketing techniques for new users – ignoring the fact that most new users will never make it to a “how to” post since the website has no clear instructions– nothing to indicate which way a user should situate themselves especially when they are new.

As we all know that It takes a determined individual to become a member of the Steemit community – which is not a good thing – there should be very little ambiguity about what to expect and how to be as successful as you can.
Most “beta” sites operate in a “closed beta”.

I don’t know if any of you remember when Gmail or Facebook came out – but if you didn’t get an invite – you weren’t allowed in. Who are all these people that sign up and leave? Should Steem Inc be printing money for people who are never going to really use the account?

I think a number of things have to happen to change this trend. First If i was @dan i would make the site invite only and give each user 5 invites (increasing number of invites as the site grows). This would prevent people from swooping in, taking a reward and then leaving.

The Listing logarithm needs to be changed.

The current price of steem is about $1 and i think it also seems the price wont change much in future. Steems are collected on this platform by members and distributed to users again by upvotes etc.

This approach seems to be causing inflation as steem becomes invaluable over time while there are more contents on steemit. The main idea is: if people can easily post an idiot picture or low quality content and still earns steem, this makes sense that steem cant be valuable and also shouldt be either.

I think this situation can only be solved by changing the listing algorithm on steemit so that high quality content may get higher rankings even without any upvote or comments.
This could be provided by adding score point calculation to steem posts in backed software so that every new post or updated post has an updated content score calculated by a content analyzing system. If you prevent low quality content be visible on top of lists than steemit will be a much better place for content generation.

Nobody knows about Steemit!

Chances are, if you are a normal person, who uses social media every day and have no idea about crypto currencies, you have not heard about Steemit. I think Developers should create a referrals or affiliate system where existing users can recruit new users and in return they will get SBD or Steem Power, this will enable the platform to grow at a rapid pace. Increase curation rewards for those who upvotes Minnows and promotes their quality contents, this will not discourage new users and Minnows will stick to the platform.

We need to practice justice because everyone has a a just and fair ability to view the background.

Given that there is a flawed concentration of power, when some power players decide to implement something, but others don't follow suit, and then continue to engage in fascistic policies, there is no justice or equality across the board in the "community".
Plenty of people get voted on and have higher rewards that others, with no whale votes, and don't get flagged. Then others, who also don't get whale votes, get flagged regardless when they approach the payouts of others who don't get whale votes and don't get flagged... that's not justice or equality, that's injustice.

“ Vote selling- Some users should stop abusing Bidbots.”

It sounds just like it sounds, Some People sell their votes to others for money. Honestly this has to a lot of enterprising users to create "bid bots" which are accounts with massive voting power. I don't disagree with vote selling but i'm talking about some of our fellow users who abuse them by pushing sub par content to the trending pages.

This has created a lot of friction between different camps in the platform – those who are against buying votes and for it. In most cases, bid bots become a necessary evil for content creators in order to make it to the trending pages. Buying votes are the only way to compete with whales who have the available funds to rocket themselves to the top. My suggestion on this is, Bot owners should not allow the same person's posts more than x times a week or they should put a rule have a rule that they will not vote for a post once an x amount of bots have already voted on it.

Conclusion

Steemit has a huge potential, and its future can be the brightest.

The start could not be better, as I see lots of users and lots of great content which makes the time spent here very pleasant.
If this Reddit 3.0 keeps on growing and evolving, introducing new features to keep people want to write here, it'll be a huge success.

What do you think about the future of steemit?

I'd love to hear some opinions!