RE: an open letter to @ned
You just said what I wanted to say, when I saw this latest upvotes/downvotes hugger mugger and mini scandal.
I'm presently embarrassed to recommend the platform to serious people like academics or businesspersons, my actual community. Serious people don't play games. Yet they're the only ones who can typically vest to any great extent and help get the ball rolling qualitywise.
Right now, what'll happen? They browse for a few minutes, see 3000$ comments and 300$ "no"'s, revenge flaggings, trending spam with bought upvotes from bots, and just wonder why I ever told them about this site.
And they won't look back. First impressions are nearly impossible to shake. Market position in the mind of the prospect is broken at that point. That's why statistical learning from the 1950s, which didn't impress when computers were too slow and data too sparse, was rebranded as deep learning, as if new research, in 2010s.
Which is not good, because this platform has amazing potential to change the world.
Amazing that even ned, who did a great thing by creating it, doesn't fully understand it, that which he created.
the websites on Steem have plenty of unorthodox and great turn offs—in the flags and lack of trending quality—we have many solutions in progress..checkout Steemit/Hivemind in GitHub for one..SMTs will be another..interfaces dealing with Spam is another,just like Reddit and others do..no silver bullets..don’t get sold one
There is one thing that can be done now, I suggest. I'm aware there's no silver bullet for low quality content, flags, and spam.
SMTs may improve things in the future, bring more stake to quality activities, yes, but there is, however, something simple and easy that can be done now to help deal with the above issues:
Installing MathJax (async) or KaTeX (sync) on the servers which typeset Steemit.
I'm thinking of bringing people from MathOverflow. — Steemit with LaTeX is an easy pitch there — monetized arXiv with archived comments. That community might be helpful. Spam lasts average ten to fifteen minutes there.
More serious people, like scientists are joining; but the rate can be improved.
LaTeX typesetting allows Steemit to absorb MathOverflow and other existing communities which have individuals willing to curate for quality and having the resources to vest in sufficiently larges stakes to make a difference. They might make a big difference, if they come here to play, — help deal with all the current problems.
Larger systems behave differently from a smaller ones — in this case better. A stubborn minority dedicated to quality can have a disproportionate impact, if there are sufficiently many people in it. In this case, a positive impact.
I'm discussing with others building a busy.org- like interface, but with MathJax installed, and a little extra code to the post editor. (It's not externally loaded anymore, since a few months ago, so no more security concerns.)
However, if you can get MathJax directly on Steemit, that would not be third party and better. There's no silver bullet; yet there are strategies which make a visible difference. I suggest that would create a feedback that further improves things.
TEST.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Team: I propose we can discuss project COMMUNICATE as comments beneath this post. ... Let's get this Dapp built. ... What do you guys think? ... Is this is a good spot? I like it. ...
Project: Navigate pdf, html video, images, distributed on a decentralized blockchain. Steem. Think Gfycat. Think Scribd. But permanent. Archived. Free. Forever. For you.'
Posting binary in pieces. Reading binary in pieces. Efficiently. So that all users can do this selectively.
Pretty much summarizes it.
First Unit: DMonoid ("Monoid"). @DMonoid ("@Monoid").