10 Suggestions To Make Steemit The Best

I was thrilled a few days ago when I celebrated the completion of my first month on Steemit. There are so many things that I like here including the helpful community and the diversity of topics, besides the fact that it pays to publish good, unique content.

I have a few suggestions which can be considered in the time ahead for if they are implemented, it would make Steemit even better than what is out there right now. I do understand that Steemit is in beta and that there is work in progress to make it even better in the days to come.

My Suggestions

1. Home Page Design

While plain and simple is not a bad design, what is in vogue are scrolling feeds on a highly customized home page on a website. Each user should be able to customize the feed to display content pertaining to the topics that he or she wants to read. This does not include displaying your follower's posts only - rather expand on it and make it possible to include content that is based on a keyword or a particular tag.

Make the home page for visitors modern, colorful and irresistible. Once a visitor lands on the home page he should never feel like going back.

2. Showcase The Best

Staying on the topic of the home page, let us showcase only the best on the home page where a visitor lands after typing in Steemit.com. The current feed may not show the best posts that Steemit has to offer especially the new and hot tabs, and we know it - the gems are hidden away beneath heaps of average or low quality content.

This is the right time to change it, as Steemit matures as a platform. It may be better to show the best 100 posts from diverse topics for the entire day than show a continuous flood of spammy posts throughout. In the current Niagara of post feeds, identifying good content becomes almost like finding a needle in a haystack.

The bitter truth is that anyone who visits the site and stays on does it mostly for the love of (earning) money rather than to read the posts.

3. Curation

There are more bloggers than readers on Steemit, and very little curation takes place. Part of the reason for the lack of curation seems to be the low curation rewards and also the fact that most of those who have high voting power prefer to vote those who are tenured and have a high rep score.

This needs to change by way of redoing the reward structure and creating more avenues for good content to be rewarded, and for good authors to be given due recognition.

4. SEO for Steemit

The main category pages followed by sub-categories in a silo structure is the format favored by all search engines. Besides a top posts section which consists of truly exceptional content is highly recommended for good SEO. Then you have proper backlinking including internal backlinks and external backlinks.

These are only a few things that a site needs for SEO for which a team of SEO experts might do a better job than programmers.

5. Reputation Score

Having a reputation score against each username is a great idea, but it seems to have lost its relevance to some extent. Users who publish plagiarized images and content posting a few times every day rise to a high rep score easily in a month or six weeks.

Reputation score by no means is a true indication that an author produces high quality content - it is more a gauge of how much a person has posted since the beginning of his membership, and that could include copy pasting text and publishing plagiarized images.

The reputation score system needs a revamp so that those who are truly worthy of high reputation(and there are many!) have high scores against their usernames.

6. Search Feature

Make it easy to find content with an advanced search function.

With such a large repository of content an advanced search feature is a must so that a user can get as close as possible to the kind of results that are needed. The Google based search is very general and doesn't bring up very good results when you search for something specific. It is better to use Google's advanced search than the search function on the site.

7. Resteeming

Resteeming is extremely useful for spreading awareness about good content published by others, but maybe not at the cost of your own posts not being seen on top. If I resteem a few posts they appear on top of my feed and my own post goes under. Due to this reason alone, many do not resteem any posts because they feel that some of their latest important articles may get hidden. Some also feel that it may result in their followers starting to follow someone else!

So resteemed posts may need to be placed away from an author's latest posts.

8. Hide The Money

The dollar sign at the bottom of each post is the biggest attraction for most people but that also includes spammers and unscrupulous plagiarists who seem to have manifested Steemit. Now that the whole world knows that you can earn money on Steemit, it may be time to remove the monetary figures, unless there is a dire need that I may have missed.

Any site that shows dollar signs on its pages also attracts the desperate "make money online"crowd which may not exactly the type of people that the platform needs right now.

Instead the platform needs visitors to read blogs and writers who can contribute more good content that is not only of high quality, but also provides a lot of value in the form of new information or solutions that people are looking for on the web.

9. Spam

The spam problem has enveloped the platform nearly to the point of no return - because once you put something on the blockchain it stays forever. As I type this there are hundreds of spam comments and spammy blog posts being made and new spam accounts being created. The situation is so grim that any big company would stop operations and plan for an emergency solution that needs to be implemented immediately.

A formal team needs to be formed to tackle spam - volunteers may no longer be enough to tackle the problem on a large scale.

10. Followers

It is important to know who follows and unfollows you. After all it is a social platform and you need to take decisions on what content to offer based on your followers likes and dislikes. Getting more details of followers and unfollowers has to be done through apps but it could be easily fixed by having the feature as a part of the site.

More Suggestions?

This is by no means an exhaustive list of suggestions. If you have any, please put them down in the comments below.

Also, this is not a post containing negative criticism disguised as suggestions. I consider Steemit a revolutionary platform that can easily become a preferred social platform for all those who use Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and all those other social networks which are just that - a place to socialize and nothing else except maybe watch some ads.

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