What's rotten in the world of Steemit
It's a disease spreading through the network, poisoning every bit it touches. It's by far, the worst human quality there is. Have you guessed it?
I was just in the middle of replying to one of the comments I had received when I realized that a comment was just not going to cut it. There was just so much I wanted to say that I just had to do it.
I just cannot help myself but facepalm when looking at a post such as this one written by @brupvoter. I hereby challenge the writer to defend his opinions in the comments below.
Okay, this picture isn't really what this article is about, though it is closely related. I think self-upvoting can be somewhat justifiable, provided you are delivering quality content. Using bid-bots on posts like the one I will be discussing, however, is borderline unforgivable.
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Also if Steemit wants to get away from being a cryptocurrency ponzi like economy we need >advertising on the platform in the form of 1 or 2 banners on the page that advertisers buy that allows >a bid/buy to the Steem currency. This would seal the loop of Steemits economy.
Who came up with this? This is complete nonsense. Being built and driven by the community, nobody wants commercials here. Yes, there are proposals of networks that reward users for consuming commercials, but I don't think this is the case. What purpose would the commercials serve here? To make money to Steemit Inc.? Why? They already make money (albeit in the form of STEEM) by developing the portal itself.
Video games
"Making games is not that difficult and only requires 1 to 2 pretty good flash developers from a 2nd/3rd world country and 1 to 3 designers. A game can be made for about $2000 USD and if we introduced the Steem currency we would have a great new dynamic to the ecosystem. $2000 USD is for a flash game not one that have Steem implemented inside it."
Nobody ever plays such games. They are trash. And if someone actually plays it, it's just because they really have nothing else to do and they won't pay a dime for anything in such game. That is not to say that games with Steem would not be valuable, though. I think that there are real use cases with SMTs, just not as simple as this guy proposes.
Also, has the writer ever developed such game? If so, I encourage him to send me a link. I would like to try it out and see for myself.
A moveable layout...
"Imagine if in Steemit you could make shortcuts or move around the page. Google use to have iGoogle and they had about 1 million or 100,000 layouts people made. But for some stupid reason because it didn’t have 1 billion users, Google discontinued the feature. (They have brought it back but it only has 7.1 million users as of right now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle )"
Like, are you for real? A movable layout? Seriously? Why do you think Google discontinued their iGoogle? Nobody used it! No social network wants its users to move around their UI elements. And no user wants to move them either. Users just want the thing to work, be simple to use and most importantly, not change, like ever. Users hate change.
The cherry on top of it all
"If Steemit developed a news feed which was tailor made, that would catapult it into the top 5 or top 10 cryptocurrencies. You could just have an algorithm that allowed for analyzing keywords/tags and grouping them above or below posts that were related to what some of your followers were saying. Or if a follower posted some travel pics or travel notes you could have an advertisement or related travel post above or below it. As Facebook lightened up on news in the news feed recently you could have Steemit get some market share."
This is just the last nail in the coffin. Does the writer think that Steemit does not have algorithms to reorganize the posts? How else would he get to the top of the trending page? It's embedded in the very core of Steem blockchain. The higher upvotes you get, the higher on the trending page you appear. The faster the acquisition of such upvotes in a short period of time, the higher you get in the hot page. Transparency is the main idea here. Period.
All of this is not to say that I do not believe in Steemit. In fact, the opposite is true. However, I do think that throwing ideas around without doing any actual research is just wrong. I just want to stress that nothing is only Black & White in this world and that the direction which we see today, may not be the future after all.