RE: STEEM has no future if it does not preserve its fundamental source of value: 100% human curation
The web site is already converted. I just haven't announced it yet because I came across a bug and have been working on that. I'll be taking a close look at communities, as well as another look at the API. Today I made a decision to commit to this goal. I'll use my own software as well as whatever capabilities the API has and also whatever communities adds. This is going to happen.
It will happen a lot faster if a few people volunteer to learn how to write "knowledge trees" and then put together some some simple zines. For example, someone could do a zine that covered STEEM development news. That would be tremendously helpful to me and probably of great interest to lots of people.
IOW, I will provide the platform and the invitation; others, hopefully many, will provide the content.
now that I think of it.
there's an app for that.
for wordpress if I recall.
it transfers the blog to Steemit.
not the same thing?
Yeah, I ran across some discussion of that. What I have in mind will be easier to just put together and "show and tell" than it would be to try to describe.
well good luck.
learning curves are steep.
I'm fat.
not willing to put forth any more effort to climb the curve than I have to unless I think I NEED to.
right now what I got works for me.
I'm not thinking of you. Not that you wouldn't be welcome, but you already have your MO here. What I have in mind would be best for someone who doesn't particularly want to write but has an interest in surveying posts on a given topic.
I've been getting more and more of those things lately.
your competition?
That's like showing a red bandana to an already pissed off bull. Yeah. I think that all of that pay for resteem and pay for votes is going to kill the platform.
math is hard...if you DO the math you find that the only one who makes money is the people who provide the 'service'
Exactly. It transforms the platform into a vanity press service. Authors bid against each other for visibility. The only people who win are the bot service providers. People think that this will increase the value of STEEM, but they forget that if the platform sucks for both authors and readers, both will go elsewhere.
like they say in Wyoming about their winters
'keeps the riff raff out'
The riff raff aren't stupid. They are all in California.
for one thing...un-follow folks who re-steem too much...and my threshold is LOW.