If you want to know what i think bad content is: badly written articles with spelling/grammar mistakes, bad layout, usually posts under a couple 100 words, illegal/offensive content and so on...
While I'm not fond of spelling/grammar mistakes, it seems that a decent portion of SteemIt users are English as a Second Language writers. Over time and through interacting with the community, their posts will likely improve. Not to mention, some users aren't writers (or technically knowledgeable) and have never blogged before this. In these cases, giving advice and/or showing them how to use a feature would be more beneficial to the platform. Plus, if SteemIt really is a social media service, then that automatically implies a lack of professionalized writing style and/or content layout. Yes, professionals use social media, but mainstream users are not professionals. They're everyday people who want a chance to have their voices heard.
Don't get me wrong. I've seen some shit content get great upvotes and, likewise, great content get shit upvotes. One of the things that might help make the up/down voting easier would be to have a button for both, rather than a button for up and a practically hidden, obscure minus for down.
I've been thinking about the flagging too. There are different implementations possible, for example 2 reward pools (upvote & downvote pools) so that you get rewarded based on what the majority votes for. So if a post gets 60 upvotes and 40 downvotes, the users that upvoted get rewarded a little more because they more accurately predicted the quality of the content. Of course there are probably new problems that will arise then, but the devs should be smart enough to find a solution :p
That's an interesting idea. I don't know jack about setting up algos for that kind of thing. I don't know how easy it would be to implement. But, it does seem like up and down votes should negate each other. Do they not already do something like that?
See there... I really am still learning. So, there isn't even a [-] for posts, that's just on comments?! Only flagging for posts? I wonder if SteemIt Dev would want to add a check box or something similar to the flag option, so then users could specify why they flagged during the flagging process. I get that they can always leave a comment about it.
If you want to know what i think bad content is: badly written articles with spelling/grammar mistakes, bad layout, usually posts under a couple 100 words, illegal/offensive content and so on...
While I'm not fond of spelling/grammar mistakes, it seems that a decent portion of SteemIt users are English as a Second Language writers. Over time and through interacting with the community, their posts will likely improve. Not to mention, some users aren't writers (or technically knowledgeable) and have never blogged before this. In these cases, giving advice and/or showing them how to use a feature would be more beneficial to the platform. Plus, if SteemIt really is a social media service, then that automatically implies a lack of professionalized writing style and/or content layout. Yes, professionals use social media, but mainstream users are not professionals. They're everyday people who want a chance to have their voices heard.
Don't get me wrong. I've seen some shit content get great upvotes and, likewise, great content get shit upvotes. One of the things that might help make the up/down voting easier would be to have a button for both, rather than a button for up and a practically hidden, obscure minus for down.
I've been thinking about the flagging too. There are different implementations possible, for example 2 reward pools (upvote & downvote pools) so that you get rewarded based on what the majority votes for. So if a post gets 60 upvotes and 40 downvotes, the users that upvoted get rewarded a little more because they more accurately predicted the quality of the content. Of course there are probably new problems that will arise then, but the devs should be smart enough to find a solution :p
That's an interesting idea. I don't know jack about setting up algos for that kind of thing. I don't know how easy it would be to implement. But, it does seem like up and down votes should negate each other. Do they not already do something like that?
See there... I really am still learning. So, there isn't even a [-] for posts, that's just on comments?! Only flagging for posts? I wonder if SteemIt Dev would want to add a check box or something similar to the flag option, so then users could specify why they flagged during the flagging process. I get that they can always leave a comment about it.
I am agree with that. What is a bad layout? Making sure mine is on point.
The simplest example is not using enough paragraphs. I see it all the time :)
Also not enough headings/sub headings and using too much or not enough pictures.