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RE: IS THE CURATION SYSTEM BROKEN?
Zero upvotes would mean no platform, you can ask the team at musing how they are doing without their delegation. Why do always I get this tune from most people I speak to about on this issue? If as a business owner you employ ineffective people (not to say the curators are ineffective) to manage your business what would the outcome be?
P.s I'm not concerned about the curators but the system. If we have a proper check and balance, and a more consensus approach amongst the curators probably things might be better. It's great for me, I can care less but I'm trying to hold the middle ground here and probably play the devil's advocate.
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I would argue majority content here is plagiarism and gaming the system for upvotes.
Valid point. Why do you think people post every day? Why do you think I post every day? Everyone is after the upvotes. We can delay this and the frequency of posts by an individual if we implement the things I suggested. But dtube needs traffic I suppose. If dtube curates at 100 percent every 24 hours I'm certain many people will up their game, including myself. Even though I can't afford a good camera now I will certainly invest in one. And if there are guidelines, say a thousand view and meaning comments which will guarantee you a nomination for an upvote, definitely, there will be more effort put into making videos. There are millions of people posting on YouTube. A significant number of them don't earn, a significant number produce zero quality but earn because they ride on trends. We should understand the vlogging sphere better. Dtube can invest more in doing better research and have quality individual that's are innovative working behind the scene. It took them all this drama to make a post today.
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I see a lot of accusation, not much solution. View count is not possible. You said it, millions of people create content on youtube and millions of them make no money. I would love to see the percentage of actual content creators (not plagiarizers) who ear 0 upvotes and money on dtube. They don't exist. Everyone who actually makes new relevant content gets upvotes. Dtube does not upvote 100%'s.
The argument has been that some videos get higher upvotes for mediocre content. This said video of mine got a $6. You might check around and find one of those bedroom videos you talked about getting as high as $10. I really don't care about these things though i notice them. Asides video quality and probably audio quality i think i can match any dtuber here when it comes to quality. Maybe @theycallmedan will beat me to it. The point is if we are all being honest we will see there are lapses. Personally I'm good. I get 2-3 upvotes from dtube weekly. At least that covers my data expense. I wishedII earned more probablyII will get a decent camera for my vlogs but they don't owe me anything. ButII fear they might fall like musing if they don't review things and make some adjustments
All that really matters is that we all have a place to post to is not centralized, that is not censored and is a place for free speech. It is that. The upvotes are a bonus. This is a place banned YouTube channels can turn to. Ideally people would get votes that reflect their hearts desire, however it is a human curation teams. I dont think it is a good idea to tell all these people that they are not doing a good job as curators.
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I do understand. That's why I tired my possible best to keep this conversation on steem--discord.i got an infuriating response that made me to respond on twitter and why I even uploaded this video. It's been on my phone for 3days, I was even planning on deleting it.
I won't take your job even for 1k steem (lies) because I might end up downvoting most videos. I tried to maintain the middle ground, which did not happen but I get you guys and thank you for having the decency to have this conversation rather than tell me to go talk to the wall. We've reasoned like equals, and that's what it should be like. I will keep promoting steem and dtube.
But I just have this to say, the team should distance itself from anything that would drag it to the mud. Bad news spread faster than good news. This is all I can say.
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I would also argue every single business that is a huge success has employees. Unless you are talking about a freelancer, or contractor. So basically, a business grows to a size, they must hire employees to handle the demand. Well, I wouldn't say the dtube curators are ineffective (even if in parenthesis you say you aren't saying that) because you are playing "devils advocate." That would be like me saying, "Man I think team X sucks" (not to say the the individual players are terrible) but what happens when you hire a team of professional athletes and they don't win every game?
Well, you can read other meanings to my statement. It is open for debate.
Employ another. It happens every time in football. If the coach can not find a way around the team's poor performance, a new one is hired to do that job
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Also 0 upvotes doesn't mean 0 platform. The platform will still be available for people to use. They just wouldn't game the system to get upvotes from the dtube account. There are a lot of steemians who are vested willing to upvote video they appreciate.
Like the example i gave--musing. Its still a functioning app on the steem blockchain with a few active persons. But currently it cannot match the patronage of dapps like dtube and steemmonsters? Why? Two months ago it was one of the top apps on steem. This goes to show the importance of upvotes in the ecosystem. We do not run attention economy but a reward economy. If people don't get rewarded they bail out. No loyalty or whatsoever.
Things will never be the same. But if you doubt, probably if you know anyone at dtube headquarters then tell them to try out this little experiment. 95 per cent of dtubers aren't vloggers. They are here for the upvotes and honestly there is nothing wrong with that. I never knew i had a passion for vlogging until those upvotes started coming (am i allowed a little humor here?)
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