#FOMO

Why This Exact Title Format Will Never Work On Steemit

There exists an ocean of articles telling content consumers how x signs, tricks, vacation locations, or or habits will improve their lives. This brand of articles has a habit of arousing your curiosity just to leave you entirely unsatisfied, true or true? These articles are successful because they trigger Fear of Missing Out in the reader i.e. "What do they know that I don't know? Am I falling behind? What 19 things are more deadly than a shark? Should I start wearing pants again?

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Too many FOMO articles promise pearls but fail to deliver valuable content. Why won't FOMO titles survive on Steemit?

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Quality Over Quantity:

Let's be honest, a ridiculous amount of us made a Steemit account because we had serious FOMO. But the primary directive of segments utilizing red-flag language is to drive page traffic by eliciting a fear-curiosity reflex in users. FOMO title appeal is brilliant, and it has survived thus far because, previously, frequent page traffic was enough for a domain holder to sustain a revenue stream via advertisements, avg. user subscriptions etc. But a 2016 SourcePoint study found that 78 percent of premium publishers are taking steps to measure ad blocking as we begin 2016 and that 51 percent expect ad-block rates to reach more than 30 percent in three years. What content will occupy the advertisement space we're blocking?

As we all know, Steemit has erected its own digital currency value system. The STEEM value system is coupled with a quality content value set which rewards users for up-voting useful original content. @arhag

One result of a built-in quality content value set is that FOMO appealing authors are now compelled to satisfy the user's expectations of an article else risk their post being further smothered by the massive volume of useful content being uploaded each hour. The larger result is a quality-weighted content exchange platform. @joseph By closing the gap between user content expectation and actual content delivery, Steemit can minimize content expectation slippage and therefore minimize user disappointment. For this reason, future content exploration on Steemit may be a far more qualitatively satisfying experience.

Interesting Side Note: Awarding a user for their endorses the user's content. This article is an example of award gone awry wherein A Girl With Good Intentions Raises 8K By Littering A Beach With 100 Balloons

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Which brings us to,

The Steemit Personality:

What will the personality of Steemit be? How the majority Steemit content value set evolves with the user base is unpredictable. What we do know is that user content rewards are contingent on the weighted platform content preference; preferential posts are not those with greater user activity but those with greater Steem Power. Posts advancing our knowledge of Steemit have been so popular because we're all fascinated with this platform; it's what we all have in common!

How does Steem Power distribution affect our content? @liberosist addressed power distribution among Steemit here. Preliminary field results indicate evenly tiered Steem Power distribution - top down distribution of wealth and power. Having said that, the nature of Steemit promotes a niche for every user. @kevinwong @roelandp

Ideally, there won't be a dominant personality on the platform. Ideally, the platform will simply offer tools to promote group formation, peer review, event production, debate platforms, and monetary transfer. Ideally, the platform will be so intuitive that any personality can exist on it.

For now, the user base is a absolutely bomb group of people. Do yourself a favor, spraypaint the spectrum, scroll through the big players in each category. That'll give you a general idea of the direction content is taking. @bigsambucca

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Quality Content QC:

Quality content maintenance includes 86ing pesky bots, uncovering falsified stories, plagiarism, advertisements. @beowulflegend @anyx Steemit developers know this and the community has done an outstanding job recommending tools, applications, and identifying bugs.

As the platform user-base evolves, content will evolve as a derivative of the original majority consensus at hastening pace which means that, at an est. 40,000 accounts, and an est. 14,000 users, our current majority weight directs the content future of a platform with an absolutely behemoth potential.

We'll finish with a question that applies to each individual user from Steemwhale to Steampunk:

As a user aggregate, do we market Steemit for its commercialization value and pander to flash-trash FOMO media sources, do we power down when an experimental technology defies our expectation, or do we build integrity as a creative thought platform by recommending equalization measures to maintain a quality content feed?

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I'm saying a few things here so let's recap.

1. Don't let trash media into the club.
2. Quality weight is bomb.
3. Let's not lose our minds when the platform does something unexpected.

Let's pump the FOMO flow!

Jos.Denmark

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