RE: How Does Content Go Viral on Reddit?
The real solution is what all my main work is about pretty much: evolving consciousness in awareness of self-knowledge. Know the fallacies and biases that have us fool ourselves and others or them fool us.
This is a noble goal, however its likely not practical once steemit reaches a mass audience. I would wager that most people don't want to spend the time necessary to learn and understand the fallacies and biases that influence us (through no fault of the quality of your posts...a lot of people are just lazy), as you said:
that takes a lot of time and work
perhaps I am a bit cynical in that regard.
I suppose clever coding and algorithms are the best answer to my question in the broadest sense. Anyway this topic is something that we should all take time to think about, as its certainly something that Steemit will need to deal with.
Coding and rules imposed by a central authority is always easier. But no raising in consciousness is done. Not a real solution. Practical has nothing to do with the real solution. I'm giving the answer that few understand because of the enormity of the task and it is dismissed as inviable because people often want "fixes" in the "now" and they don't have a long perspective on the past history and vision and imagination for how things can be different and what it takes to get there. The solution is for us to raise ourselves up and lead ourselves through knowledge of reality, what is going on, and that includes ourselves.
People don't want to do the work, that's why it's not "practical", I understand. It would be practical if people understood this. And people aren't going to do this unless it's explained, unless they want to hear it, and unless they want to learn. This is a problem that has been here for centuries and millennia, where we make small strides in collective understandings of things due to illiteracy and an inability to understand ourselves to greater degrees. Now that has changed. We have more chance to get people to be aware of things, if we choose to spread that awareness. My purpose on Steemit is to do this. Popularity is another avenue for me to interject the quality content that matters more for people who would normally never even access it. Laziness, and lazy thinking, is a big factor in why people don't engage in this work to learn how to resolve our problems. It took me years to develop the understanding I have. Time, energy, dedication, determination, persistence.
Anyways, thanks for the feedback ;)
Always a pleasure chatting with you @krnel. :)