RE: What Are The Positives and Negatives About Steemit?
I'm seeing a lot of spam. Makes me not want to go to "New" anymore to find anything worthwhile. That makes engagement for the site harder to achieve.
I shouldn't see any posts that aren't in my native language. There should be a preference for this, with exceptions being multilingual postings that fit the filter. I'm not about to learn Mandarin or Cantonese any time soon, yet Chinese postings make up large portion of what I see in "New", for example.
I'd like any post I make be a potential earner.
Aging out after 7 days is an arbitrary window that doesn't incentivize someone to create. Why post a multi-part story when after a week no one can contribute to the author's motivation?
It circles back to the bot question, no doubt. I'm sure if you lifted the 7-day restriction then a whole army of self-voters would go insane milking the rewards pool like hungry leeches.
Solve the bot problem, some obvious fixes, voting after 'n' seconds a post is live (too fast for a human to read, its a bot!), sensing multiple comments that use the EXACT SAME PHRASE over and over.
I'm sure there are other clever ways to do this. Also consider a small fee to post, something that would hurt a spammer but let newbies float unscathed. Something similar to the "bandwidth" restriction, but tied to a token that can't be easily duped to enable spam campaigns.
Steemit has lots of promise, but if the bot problem isn't solved it will drown in a sea of auto-posted chaos.
We could reduce the posting frequency to once every twenty or thirty seconds. This would reduce the amount of bot responses. We could also tie this built in limitation with reputation and thus encouraging beginners to take time in developing their posts and punish spammers for pushing trash. Lets say that you have no limitations at 25 or above (other than the few second delay mentioned above), and those below have to wait extended periods of time and sit in timeout, with the timeout being longer the further below 25 you are. The max timeout would be a day or something like that.