RE: What's To Become Of Steemit?
Hi, @richq11. I found exactly the same thing a month or so ago. My feed was becoming inundated with worthless posts and I was missing the stuff that I wanted to see.
I managed to solve the problem by being utterly ruthless with my follows. I went through the whole list removing everyone except those who I really wanted to see posts from (by the way, be pleased, you made the cut! :-D). It took a while but I went from having six hundred and something follows to forty-three and I now have a feed which consists of good quality posts (to my mind anyway).
I am now much more selective with whom I follow and will continue to hold culls every once in a while.
As you mentioned in your post, hopefully, those who post the junk will give up and go home and leave only good quality posters on the platform. I agree though that it is a worry that good people may become discouraged and leave.
If all else fails we will still have each other!!! :-D
This is part of the solution to the problem OP is having. From time to time I note something I cannot abide from someone I followed and I have to unfollow them. This has aided in my ability to control my feed, although there's no doubt I could be more ruthless. I tend to be tolerant of human foibles, and my feed reflects this.
I hope OP does this, as he seems to be less enamored with Steemit of late, and I'd hate to lose his presence in my feed if he gives up.
Thanks!
I echo what you say about losing @richq11. It would be a tragedy.
You might be better off being a little more ruthless @valued-customer. To paraphrase Gordon Geko in the film Wall Street:-
With regard to follows anyway. Enjoy the rest of your day. :-)
One of the reasons I am not ruthless, is that I have a healthy regard for my own fallibility. I want to hear voices I don't agree with. I want to be criticized. When I am wrong I want to be set straight, and that won't happen in an echo chamber. I cannot predict which direction the next useful revelation might come from, so I try to seek some diversity in my feed.
That being said, I limit my feed to at least thoughtful voices. While I may miss some revelation of my own fallability, I can only see so much, and expect to gain epiphanies from folks at least giving things thought, rather than just following their programming.
Thanks!
I totally agree with you. Diversity within ones feed is a great thing to have. However, I wasn't referring to posters who may post things we are not in agreement with (for example I am in a healthy discussion with some people who views I do not share at all) but rather those who only post the 'you follow me and I'll follow you' comments without even referring to the post or those accounts which are totally bogus and only post plagiarised material. Be ruthless with removing those from your feed as they degrade the whole platform.
I could not more strongly agree!
Thanks Buddy... I just did the same thing a couple of days ago (you're still there too lol) I cut about 50 more. I'm still over 300 so looks like I need to go back to work!
LOL! Glad I figured that out when I only had 230 to sort through, it took me all day. I was new, followed anyone who followed me. I did not understand that it would jam up my feed.
I am getting frustrated, the soft porn, the "follow me I follow you" begging (it feels like virtual panhandling to me!) but the thing that bugs me the most is that even the reputation score is rigged. Some wooman with TWO posts and a dozen comments, been here a week, has an instant reputation of 53. That is bullshit. I thought the rep score was the one honest thing here...
But then life just ain't fair, is it? I decided to make steemit what I want it to be, for me. If I make no money, well, that is what I was making on facebook and youtube already, right? So I started dumping the people I follow unless I ACTUALLY like their content. Going to every blog, seeing what they post. Some of them are pure trash accounts, it seems it is unwise to just follow for follow, but I have not even been here 2 months, took a while to figure it out.
Hello, @fishyculture. Many thanks for your comment. You were quicker than me! I was a 4-month-old Steemian before I did the cull. :-)
I must admit I don't know the reason for the woman's rep score. Maybe asking that kind of question in a post with a steemit tag may throw up an answer or two from someone.
I agree totally with your attitude to Steemit. It can be quite demoralising when a post on which you have spent a lot of time and effort makes next to nothing (happens to me quite a bit) but like you, I look upon it as an opportunity to improve and grow as a poster.
Take care.