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RE: Where have all the intelligent Steemians gone?
There are big problems with the feed system as is. The more members are coming the less useful any of the New, hot or trending are to discover relevant content.
The other problem is that curation on this platform is widely misunderstood. What people are selecting is not relevant content that fits in a framework but a bunch of posts that seem to be upvoteable. The fact that for most people this is complete garbage does not seem to alarm anyone but it should, it could wreck the platform's growth.
A slightly better manner to discover relevant content is ChainBB https://beta.chainbb.com/
Thanks for your input.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?
Unfortunately chainBB only gets a small fraction of Steem's traffic. It might be that everyone brings their friends into Steemit or that chain BB has its own issues. That might be something to look into. I started with Steemit and did look at chainBB, but for some reason came back to Steemit. I should go back and see why I didn't explore it further.
my elaboration got a bit out of hand...
made a post about the curation problem
https://steemit.com/curation/@the-traveller/upvoting-is-not-curation-so-i-want-to-manually-solve-curation-for-my-own-purposes
Wow. Yea... this is what it is supposed to look like. I wonder though, if making a post compiling articles is the way to go, or rather simply suggest that certain tags be exclusively used for certain topics? (Which is really what they are there for.)
Good point. the particular problem I am trying to solve is giving the context. Currently making up the proper curation library post, and for each article adding a why you should read it section. This helps to decide before you click if it is worth your time or not. Tags still don't help with that...
Good point!
For those not wishing to read it all themselves and have someone screen their material, this will work great.
For those who think that is a kind of censorship, it won't work so well.
It will be an interesting experiment!
That is the point about curation, IT IS CENSORSHIP or DISCRIMINATION or what ever you want to call it. In the sense that it is a filter on a public set of criteria. If the curator DOESN'T discriminate content, they are in fact useless because there will be information overload quickly rendering the whole exercise useless. People don't realize that too much information is NO INFORMATION at all!
I understand that. I was simply pointing out that we all have a different view of things. It is not a 'one size fits all' world. Some will appreciate the filter while others will not. I'm sure there will be enough that do like the filter and you should grow a nice following from it.
I personally flip-flop on the idea. If I'm pressed for time, I want the 'Coles Notes' version. If I'm looking for random new ideas/authors, I prefer doing my own filtering.
There is enough material on Steem now that there will be no shortage of interested people on both sides. Ultimately, communities are what is desired. How we build them will remain to be seen.
Indeed, there should not be any "authority" element, in fact you are right the viewpoint of one author curating might be limited but necessary as an "arbiter"
So a hybrid of many contributors and a filter element might be best. But there is no problem for me if someone else "forks" the curation posts and decides to build their own!