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RE: A scenario matrix to make sense of how steemit may evolve
I like your analysis but have a few questions:
a) Do you think it's possible to steer the platform intentionally towards one and if so how and by whom? There are certainly "winners" and "losers" that would result in some cases more than others. Will we to work towards maximizing the "winners"?
b) Are these four mutually exclusive or is a combination more likely and is that preferred or not?
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a) Yes. By collaborating with each other versus competing with each other, we make this platform more like the scenarios on the right side of the matrix, and by meeting the challenges of growth with innovation rather than with entrenching in status quo business thinking, we make steemit more like the scenarios on the top of the matrix.
b) The scenarios are not mutually exclusive. They are each taken from ideas and behaviors that I have observed to be present across steemit, which will become more or less prevalent here depending on how we choose to interact with each other on this platform.
Would you care to comment on my actions of being a "featured author" by @dragonslayer109 if that is considered "collaboration" or "status quo business thinking"?
The actions are not new to have an agreement of this sort (i.e. "status quo" of selling articles to "publishers"), but also it is mutually beneficial ("collaboration"), but is it at a cost to the community?
I would like to be a part of the solution and not the problem.
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This seems inherently collaborative, and at this point I would also consider it an adaptive response to the problem of low visibility due to rapid user base growth. Users with high status give lower status users increased exposure, and receive reputational benefits in return.
My experience with the publishing world suggests that its satus quo would typically preclude you as a writer from receiving half of the money earned from this arrangement, as well as require you to surrender your ownership of the material being published.
Also, those who are sincerely asking themselves if they are part of the problem are probably not part of the problem.
Thanks for this information. I am trying to gauge my actions given my association with @dragonslayer109 and the heat he was taking. If the community was against this arrangement, I am willing to reconsider.
No problem @strangearray. And from what I gather, @dragonslayer109 is trying to do right by this community - same as most of us are. Novel projects do attract strong personalities, money does attract jerkwad scammers, and the internet is filled with people that can't separate their petty resentments from what makes sense. Figuring out how to keep our ship sailing through all the nonsense this creates is a big part of beta testing this platform, I suppose.