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RE: What's With That "Featured" Post Thing?
It's great for Steemit, Inc communications as a more eye-catching alternative for the sidebar with pins, but they should be careful (as in: not do it :D) with community posts. For me it reminds me too much of the forced feeding of Facebook, where a central entity decides what you 'should' see even though you maybe have chosen before not to want to see/follow something.
In this case I follow and like you, but the next time I might be quite annoyed :P Centralized decisions about what content people 'should' see on a decentralized platform is a no-no. And no, clicking it away is not enough. If any frontend decides to do featured posts for 'frontend updates' that should be fine (although there will even be people not who don't like that).
Facebook and twitter don’t give you the options to not see them anymore though, but I get what you mean. I guess it doesn’t seem much different to me than pinning community posts on the side bar like they have been doing.
I personally would rather see a community project advertised to me then random google ads (if they sell the space) but I get some really dislike the ads as well and have them blocked and this feature they won’t be able to.
Centralized decisions about content are already made on front ends, but I agree they should be careful and find a balance or it will ruin what we have going here.
Yes, even on Facebook I can click it away like on Steemit.com... But after 10 times of doing that I'm so annoyed I give up and start resenting the place :')
Another thing I thought of just now is that with so much confusion going on still about Hot and Trending and the lack of a good way to ReSteem great content (like with the possibility of adding a comment that says why you're resteeming) we don't need another way to highlight posts from the community before fixing those first :-)
Exactly. I guess Steemit.com needs a real overhaul first where people can fully customize their experience and then implement features so they can reply 'it's this option in the settings you have to turn off' if people start complaining ;-)
I apologize, I didn’t realize you could x them out on Facebook. I have been annoyed by the excessive ness of them on twitter and saw no way to remove but haven’t been over on Facebook recently.
I agree, having other ways to share is much needed. I LOVE the resteem with comment idea as well as others that improve user experience.
The reason this was done now is it’s an already existing code (same as the banner but with a couple changes). I wish they would be more clear on why some stuff is being discussed or done before others that seem much more important as it makes them look like they just don’t get it. But, it’s just due to what’s “easier” being done first as it only requires existing code, not something new.
I agree with the overhaul and I know they are trying to throw in some small stuff into this HF. I’m hoping after Mira is complete they can focus a bit on that.. as with hivemind it should be easier to implement some front end changes. I know they are short handed and doing more “blockchain level” things and focusing on communities (which will be a game changer) but more focus on user experience is very much needed and I hope we see some changes happening.