Valid question man. I think what we have now is various initiatives to focus on trying to get people to post in general anything. I guess that is a good way to encourage people to start, however, at some point folks, the quality and usefulness of the content has to improve. You have to up your game. Improve that shitty cell phone audio with a bit of a better mic. Work on a bit better editing. Try new things and grow and expand. I believe I've seen that very thing with your own work man. Your videos have grown, improved and changed over time. You've experimented and tried new things. Played with colors, black and white, hyper-lapse, you bought a gimbal, etc. We need more improvement....myself included.
So much agree.
I don't hope for significant improvement of the content, unless the community members start to use FLAGS more often, on the truly shitty clips. Which I don not see at all yet.
What worst can happen to someone who uploads a shaky, out of focus, terrible sound or just meaningless video?
Well, he may not get that fat upvote from Nathan or DTUBE itself, but yet a bunch of bots and friends will generate him 0.50- 1 Steem, maybe even more.
But, at the risk of harvesting flags, loosing rewards and deteriorating his reputation - maybe many will think twice before hitting that "upload" button.
Are we all so much afraid to run into flag-war?
Just came across another clip on TRENDING page (to bad that MUTE function seems to be not working for me on DTube's page), a perfect example of "low quality" work (as I understand this).
Bad sharpness of the picture, often just out of focus, very shaky, low resolution, terrible sound, non-existing white-balance, almost 6 (six ?!) minutes long, and has nothing to say. And you know what?
After just two hours since its been uploaded - over 220+ upvotes, 19 congratulating comments ( not a single critics), and impressive $19 of rewards
People see all this, see how it works.
Naturally, expect to see more and more of "works" like this.
I have not put my flag there yet (As I just simply disagree with the rewards.)
I have another full 7 days for doing this.
I just curious to see, how far it will go.
@onealfa I'm down for the flagging as well. Specially on those kids who can't take a flag because they revenge flag all the posts from the flagger.
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Thank you so much for writing a meaningful comment.
It's easy for people to say why quality content is missing the support but we're in a early days of building Dtube and first thing we need to focus on building strong community. So everyone will be given time and opportunity to join our community.
I've been focusing engagement here on Dtube and delegated large amount of SP to individuals to level up engagement to provide feedback to other creators to grow and unfortunately most people had their own projects in their mind.
I left Discord and I've introduce #SNAPfeedback to give feedback to other creators to grow. But still people are only commenting on their best friends content. So I decided to go all in with engagement myself.
I just saw your comment on someone else's post where you told the guy this is shit content. If members in our community start comment on others content then we'll have 2 million users in 6/7 months time but everyone focusing on how to get rewarded from 2 million SP that Dtube has.
People to need to think long term and Dtube need to so much make sure that Dtube is community driven and promise some future stake in Dtube Token economy.
Talk to you soon buddy!
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@captainbob thanks for watching and replying. I agree with what you say, however my core question was if DTube is more for crypto shilling / fudding related videos, or if there really is people who want to consume real entertainment and creativity here?. And I'm not talking about upvotes. I'm talking about REAL engagement (just like your comment, or @onealpha's). I have seen great creators losing their momentum mainly due to the fact here people seem to engage in a shallow way, only looking for the damn upvote in the comment. I myself look at most of the steem shill / fud content as another way to just get the damn upvote from big accounts.
There seems to be no true receptivity for creative content here, and I want to change that.
By the way, I have seen so many shitty quality videos on other platforms (bad audio, bad shaky footage, but rich on story or creativity) which were released at the right time and had a big impact on myself and many other people (judging by the engagement they received). I guess it all goes down to the people's taste... no everyone likes B movies, or European cinema... most people prefer mainstream Hollywood, and only because it is the kind of movies that get the biggest marketing budget, they have brainwahsed us into liking the same fast food-like style into most of us.
:)
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