A better way then 50/50 reward splits and downvotes
If Steemit Inc wants to:
- increase the value of Steem
- keep people using Steemit longer
- earn more advertising revenue
then I think the following 3 things will have a much bigger impact.
Attract more traffic from our social media networks
Let's face it, few people know about Steem or Steemit. One way to change that is to let people add settings that will automatically post the first para, the first photo in the post (not the Steem logo) and a link to their Steemit posts on other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. That will make Steemit more visible to a lot more people and attract more visitors.
Drive visitors deeper into Steemit
Display links to other posts based on tags e.g. "Related" "New" "Hot"
It is important these links are more closely related to the content of the post which is why it needs to be narrowed by tag. Content on Steemit is so broad it is unlikely to drive people into Steemit more deeply unless its focus is narrowed by tag. For example, if I come to Steem via a post about dogs or yoga or recipes - I am going to have no interest in links to posts about programming or crypto or Steem. Make it easier for visitors to find relevant (from their point of view) content and they are more likely to stick around.
Quality content has a life of more than 7 days
Add rewards at 30 days, 3 months, 1 year, etc to encourage people to invest their time to create more valuable content.
Burn X% of Advertising revenue
Make advertising win-win so your content creators are on your side rather than resenting you for exploiting their content to earn advertising revenue for yourselves. Use X% of advertising revenue to buy and burn Steem, helping increase the value of Steem in the long term. This gives content creators an incentive to think about how to maximize advertising revenue when they are writing their posts as they will benefit from the increase in the value of Steem. We want everyone rowing in the same direction.
Conclusion
Start by putting yourself in the shoes of a potential visitor who has never heard of Steem or Steemit and does not give 2 hoots about either.
- What do we need to do to make it more likely they will stumble across an interesting post on Steemit.
- Once they are on Steemit, how do we improve the interface to make it easier to find other posts that are relevant and interesting to them. Thereby driving them deeper into the site.
Hope this helps
Ozphil
These do not get to the issue what so ever.
The issue is not getting more people to steem. The issue is to keep people, and to get them to power up. If people see the shit on trending and nothing interesting they will not be interested in powering up.
I really cannot believe that you think this is in any way better.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You "Gold" might be other people's "Sh*t". It depends what people are interested in.
At the moment - Trending etc covers too broad a range of topics. We need a way to narrow the focus to what that particular person is interested in - which is what I tried to achieve in "Drive visitors deeper into Steemit"
If they see lots of info they are interested in - then they are much more likely to keep using the site and eventually power up.
Tags. That's why we have tags. There's a difference between using the site and having a desire to join the site. Many people might use it for years before they decide to join, and even then it's predicated by why they join, was it because of some members only area, did they want to leave a comment, etc.. To get people interested in powering up they must see good content, not shit, that is rewarded, not overpriced (which makes it shit regardless of how "quality" / "gold" it is) and to get to that point no amount of "look at all these other items" will change that. I really mean that, you think that your suggestions will do that or are comparable to what the EIP proposal? What is it about your suggestions that would achieve on-boarding of users, because we already have tags, which are extremely visible and accessible and intuitive, and I don't understand how you expect authors to "row" with the ads as if that's why people will power up, when the authors are shamelessly shilling the advertisers..
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We do have tags - but Steemit could do a better job of driving people deeper into the site.
On this we agree.
I simply believe:
Note my suggestions are focused on the content - not shifting the chairs around on the titanic by tweaking reward percentages or free downvotes.
Driving people deeper into the site is Idiotic. Who wants to see more overpaid shit content you fucktard? Who wants to see good content receiving nothing? Idiot.
Let's get more people to the site even though they will be turned off from joining because of the scummy nature of how rewards are distributed. Idiot. Let me repeat myself once again for your idiotic nobrain self: the problem is onboarding users. If you solve that problem you create more traffic. You can throw all the traffic you want but nobody will power up if the reward distribution isn't fixed. Either way you fucktard idiot, if you think your suggestions solve the sinking of the Titanic but the EIP is shuffling deck chairs around then you are a monumentally dumb.
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I like how you think you can chop what I said up and say we agree, leaving out the most important point. No fucktard scumbag, people will not power up simply because there's good content, they will only power up if they see that good content gets rewarded and that shit content is not rewarded, unless they are intrigued by how to scam like yourself with useless Ta and self voting, then it won't make a difference what content exist because they aren't interested in that at all, only in paying themselves.
Fuckshit we do not agree, if I am in the same vicinity as you are the fucking universe would implode.
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I mean look at this, why would people power up when you literally upvoted a contribution to your post with shit while you 'evaluate' your shit comment to magnitudes more, anyone with a bit of sense will think this is a pay yourself ponzi scheme and nothing more. This is the kind of nonsense that isn't attractive to anyone but scammer and bullshit Ta's, like yourself. Despicable, detestable, if everyone acted like you this whole place would be the joke of the crypto space and the asshole of the internet.
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Seriously.
You say you want people to power up.
Then you abuse those of us that do.
I spoke my mind on your actions you dillweed. You think the issue is that we don't have enough traffic to the site, but that is dependent entirely on how much content the site puts out and how many keywords there are, and the issue is clearly not about creating more content and flooding the user's with "look at all this similar content" won't increase traffic.
You avoided the fact that you self vote and voted my comment with shit, and the fact that none wants to see that, except looser asshole Ta's like yourself who think they can simply pay themselves at the expense of everyone else, that's exactly what your behavior is attractive to, nobody else. Scammers, phishers, all the assholes, and then you get attacked because I said fuck and called you an idiot directly because of your idiot suggestion and idiot mentality and idiot behavior and of course you avoid everything else I said. Fucktard. If everyone acted like you did then no fucktard shit that we have a user retention problem. But no, that's not the problem, the problem is that users aren't inundated with more underrewarded or unrewarded content and shit content that is overpaid.
Voturbate away moron.
Get a fucking clue, I hope you don't think of yourself as an investor as you literally are a complete idiot. Truly, which explains why you think this "putting lipstick on a pig" proposal of yours is comparable to what real investors and concerned stakeholders have thought and discussed for the better part of the last year.
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How many of the 6 other votes for this nonsense of a post are your alts? I wager at least the ones that are "investor" and probably have zero content to their name. Fucking idiots every time.
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Nope, looking at the similar profile pics I'm betting you're the Chris dude, and every single vote was your alts. Don't care for your proof to the contrary anyway, you demonstrate enough what a moron you are by your remarks about gold and the idiocy of your suggestions. Fucktard.
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