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RE: Can Steemit Become a Viable Content Platform?
This is absolutely a concern of mine, as well. Once you start associating compensation models based on content, you're going to run into:
- porn
- stolen content
- circlejerk upvote dorkfests
- bots, galore
That would've been my prediction - and voila, that is what we have here! Who woulda thunk it.
The thing is, cryptocurrencies are climbing so hard, so fast, without any apparent ceiling (oh, trust me, there's a ceiling...) that even something as not-completely-thought-out as this platform will still net its creators a ridiculous amount of money, and may even net content creators (like us!) some money in the process.
Doesn't mean I won't criticize it though.
LOL I always know when @lukestokes has upvoted me, because my posts go from $0.28 to $7 instantaneously.
Same. We basically work for @lukestokes now.
Like my posts, boss? I'm sorry I said bad things about
cryptocurrencyI mean "crypto"! I'll write nicer things in the future, I promise!They're good posts, Brondy.
BLOGS. Dammit, "They're good blogs, Brondy" would have worked better. /tinyfist
Hahah. Sorry, I don't read it all (though I try to), but I did add you both to my steemvoter account because I do think you both provide great value for this platform, and I want to reward that.
I get that, but really I'm trying to imagine long-term viability. The reality is that the porn upvoting wankfests are working right now so there's no reason for the platform to change.
I've been writing online for 20 years, and I love the idea of being paid based on the quality of my content (versus praying some poor fucker will accidentally click on a banner ad on my site and earn me $0.00057).
Anything I create here, I created because I think it's good content and I want it to exist in the world, and if this place burns down to the ground, I'll have to copy all of that stuff over to my regular blog - when ideally, I shouldn't need a regular blog anymore if this platform can show me it's really got legs (other than the ones attached to the vaginas in the porn posts, that is.)