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RE: What if steemit users were rewarded according to their 'attention span'? Opening a quantity vs. quality debate.
Bad Idea... as it will be unfair to Visual Artists. People will not look at a picture for the same length of time as an article.
We just need more quality content over all. I see posts that are not really articles but only a paragraph. But they don't get many upvotes. So it seems it's working fine for those.
Thanks for your comment @nspart!
I don't agree on your first paragraph. First because blog posts are not read as books and second because depending on the art it surely can be more involving than text.
You say we do need more quality content. What is quality in your opinion and how would you encourage its production?
You don't have to agree, it's a fact. People don't look at pictures for as long as they read text so it would be unfair to visual artists as I said before. I have been on sites that do what you are suggesting and it does not work well. If that was in place I would not have even signed up honestly. As the time I put into my work far exceeds writing the average article.
The system is in place already. Upvote quality content don't vote for poor content. I don't think it needs anything else in this area.
You didn´t reply to my anwer :-) But it´s OK.
Just had a look at your blog. You joined the network 10 days ago and have already a rep of 60, that´s pretty cool. Good luck though!
What part did I not answer...
"What is quality in your opinion and how would you encourage its production?"
Quality to me is apparent. It's something someone put some times, energy and thought into. I can tell a quality text post because it was not just one or two paragraphs that really didn't provide any useful info.
A song that someone spent time creating, a image from an artist, painter, photographer, an article or story that shows quality. A self-portrait vs. a selfie.
I personally think it's easy to spot quality. In the terms of photography or art or music some of it will be more objective and rely on the taste of the viewer.
For example in my own work. All of my Photographic Art images are quality that I put out I feel. I put time and energy into them. I size them for the web, don't over compress. My Polaroids don't have as much time put into them, but some love them and even buy them from me because they like the raw feel of them. So Quality is in someway subjective. But even then I have Polaroids that are not good pictures so I scrap them and I used the best ones or highest quality.
I think the same can bee seen in music, painting, drawing, articles, tutorials of people all over the web.
How to encourage more. Upvotes on the quality work and people that put out consistent quality. And don't upvote on crap like stolen pictures or posts that are just some youtube link to a video the person did not create themselves.
Now of the created a post filled with good info and a youtube links as resources then I would say that might be a quality post.
That's how I look at it.
Thanks for your super detailed reply!
I have a different point of view. In my opinion quality is not defined by the time spent when creating it but by its impact onto the recipient. You made me laugh? Awesome. You made me think about something? Brilliant. You surprised me? You taught me something new? You provided me with anything beneficial?
A lot of different types of content are able to spark something. Even a link, a joke, a quick thought which came to my mind could be 'valuable' for my audience.
A quite controversial topic - I like that! :)
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