Request to Add Shares Tab for Resteems!
How much easier would it be to read blogs with a separate place for resteems? What increase in resteem use would we see if we did not face the problem of having the post we resteemed shared in the middle of our blog? Would we all benefit by having the posts we resteem moved into a tab of their own the way comments and replies are?
After 70 days on Steemit, I have seen a lot of posts I would like to share by resteeming especially those in the upvotable posts. Meanwhile my current number of resteems is zero.
Why avoid hitting resteem?
Resteeming adds posts I do not write to my blog which causes confusion to new readers looking only for what I wrote and is very effective at diverting readers to the author of the shared post. Where there is confusion users often are less likely to stay engaged which is why the top websites in the world are so easy to use. It still is not obvious to me right away when looking at a blog on Steemit as to who wrote the post. I have to check almost every post still to see if it is a resteem or written by the author I am following because only the small resteem icon and the author's name are different. Facebook meanwhile makes it fairly obvious if a post has been shared right away while most blogging platforms like WordPress are optimized for one author with no sharing options balanced by options to include multiple authors.
About half of the authors I am following on Steemit resulted from a resteem. While this sounds like a benefit for the whole community to encourage discovering other authors, it is coming at the cost of many authors like me not sharing at all. This has even been positively reinforced in comments where readers say thank you for putting everything I want to share into an upvotable post instead of using the resteem feature because they do not want as a reader to sort through my resteems to find my posts.
How much is this limiting our sharing?
If resteems were added in a separate tab, I estimate the amount of sharing would triple at a minimum because I would start resteeming right away. We need our sharing capability to be at the maximum because this helps viral posts spread which helps us discover new authors naturally. As it is now, I prefer the authors I follow to not resteem because it is confusing on the author's blog when I want to see what they posted.
Resteems are indefinite?
Am I correct in guessing that resteems last on the blog page indefinitely with there being no option to unresteem? If there is an option to unshare the post and remove it from the blog, then this point is irrelevant. If not, an accidental click might lead to having a blog post we did not want shared stuck on our blog when anyone checks our profile. The only solution then is to bury it with new posts.
Adding a share tab is a simple fix!
What do we need to do to get a "SHARE" tab added like I show in the picture above to help us collaborate better with resteems? If you think this feature would be a good idea, would you upvote this post for visibility because maybe it will reach one of us that can take action on this?
Love,
Jerry Banfield
On the busy.org project it is implemanted almost like that. Check out this page there are a lot of features like messages and a very good interface.
Awesome thank you for mentioning that this is available on busy.org! I had a hard time on the busy.org interface getting my post to go through which led me to give up using it. I will take a second look!
you wellcome i am just here because of your youtube channel so thank you @jerrybanfield !!!
yes that is still a problem on this site i also cant post anything but i like the interface and use it just for reading new post and stuff like that.
why do u keep posting this weirdly edited video??
So you would watch it Neo.
Neo changes his name to Antshares ...Morpheus changed his name to Kazaa
Busy.org is pretty cool once you get the hang of using it. Of course the issue you address is solved there, plus they allow me to save multiple drafts, save favorite pages and favorite creators. It's worth getting to know. :-)
ya i need a difference between followinga nd favorites! my home feed gets clyttered with peope who post too much but whop i dont wanna mute or unfollow, and i was just writing a pst aboiut a request to jhave steemit allow filters for the home feed
Busy.org is still buggy. That's the reason I don't use it. It has been improved for last months, but still not stable eneugh to me.
I think STEEM is more widely known
http://searchsteem.com will have something like this in the near future
@jerrybanfield, this might have already been mentioned, but its available on steemdb.com interface to the steemit blockchain. definitely a good feature to port here.
i did a self upvote because i think it may be relevant and might help to be more visible.
What's steemdb.com. I haven't been there. I thought it was another website.
It's a site you can use to interface with the steemit block chain. It has a different gui. There are a couple of them now. You supply the site with your posting password i think and log in from there
now you are learning how special stem really is! Steemit.com is a private centralized website that simply interfaces with Steem blockchain, Steem Blockchain is the decentralized blockchain which u can always access evenm over a commandline, and so i hope this makes it al clear
just bncause ur using steemit.com doesnt mean thats all there is, steem is like an iceberg, steemit just one piece, but yua 90 percent of users or mroe use steemit.com but u can use busy.org or steemd or chainbb and ya u also should know Steem is ionflationary and about 8 percebt more steem is made everyyearamnd that number goes down to 1 percent and price of steem goes up cuz more peopel buy it and steem isnt mined the way it is with eelctricity with bitcoin or ethereum we have DPOS delegated proof of servcie where we VOTE on who gts the new copins, its a gerat system that few thought would realy work and now its working great and people are realizing its very futiritic and it will work in ways we cant even really grasp unless we are thinking in 4d thinking about all the different witnesses an voters and peope buying steem and how steemit will grow and bnew fatures will bring in millions of users and dollars, anyway it so complx it ovwehelmes me
I would love that! Resteems being separate is definitely a good idea
Is this #pedogate material on a totally unrelated post, @matrixdweller!?!?!?!
ya man i agree with @freedomengineer its lame to post unrelated content on a popoular post, people should not opam popular posts with their own poists, go poost your own pots, we all know about pizzagate and pedogate, thi is NOT the poalce to post it, go find some democratic supporters, go find anti trump peopel and post it on their posts @matrixdweller just letting u know that people get annoyed andwe AL fuckin AGREE about pdogate and ANt pedesta to rot in jail ok? ur preeching to the fuckin choir so dont post thsi stuff here if u evr want to be liked by ur peers, its just rude man, totay rong place to post this stuf, ur just riding @jerrybanfield coat tales because look Jerry knos about pedogate and pizzagate and wants justice like everyone for the pedophiles so just post those elsewhere, u should AT LEAST segway INTO the pedogate stuf ..fuck man...u didnt even do that...ur just being didfficult and u know it...jysr because u CAN post somewhere doesnt man u shou.d..there splenty iof politcialy charged steemit posts u can post that video on, anyway kep up uyr godo fight but just not here man, come on...would u post about Pizzgate and pedogate on some steemit post talking about DIY solar panels or something? Its just unrelated man
Excellent this means it should be very reasonable to make the same available on Steemit! I just found out about SteemDB a month ago!
Lol!!! me too!! I like that there can be different interfaces to the steemit blockchain, I think its ability to be customized is one aspect of the platform that will allow it to maintain appeal to wider audience going forward. also they are excellent proving grounds for any potential upgrades to the core software.
good
I didn´t know that, but thnxs for the information @jerrybanfield, it is very useful to me considering I am new in steemer. Greetings!
I think It's a good idea, but maybe wouldn't help spread posts viraly, as the shares tab could be neglected.
Maybe having resteems collapsed to just a title and click to expand, or a toggle resteems option at the top of the feed?
That is a good idea too thank you for sharing it!
Thank you for your suggestions and feedback
Nice idea! Thanks for sharing
You're welcome!
Maybe you should stop drinking whatever you drink. After 24 hours you will be much more relaxed and will not try to look everywhere in your screen. Then you will detect more quickly if that was a post from someone who you were following or someone you didn't.
By the way? It is so important to know that? Will you be only interacting on posts written by people you are following?
Be sincere, Jerry. That's what you really want: More re-steems (for your posts).
Re-steems are bad. Steem is about content creation. Re-steeming some content is not content creation. If people started re-steeming, then there will be less content created.
Sometimes you arrive to a post which says exactly what you wanted or there are also those very helpful posts. Then it is ok to re-steem. I also do it when I found that the post is undervalued.
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" I have to check almost every post still to see if it is a resteem or written by the author".
SO true !!! there is times that i quit shearching some authors blogs because of this.
@spidersprog 's idea is very good.
thanks for posting your ideas!
you come up with so many great ideas, I wonder if any that can actually make change listens? It seems to me steemit is stuck and with no future vision. no active work for changes and improvement ir just moving slow. If this continues I believe somebody with use eos and create a competition with improvements. I hope I am wrong.
Right
You're right because I shared a post with very simple changes to make to http://steem.io which would make a huge difference a month ago and none of them have been implemented even though it might only take one person one hour to do it and the post was voted up to nearly the top of the trending page. That said, the Steemit team has worked with us on 19 hard forks by now and made a lot of improvements in a collaborative manner with the top 20 witnesses. Facebook was pretty basic in the early days and I see Steemit as the same way. We just keep trying and asking and something will come through!
@jerrybanfield, this is such good thinking happening here... but having the Resteem button on a separate tab will dilute the value of the share. Because at the moment, resteems are more often used to spread the word to help others.
But is there another solution? Resteems do clutter up a blog. And I wonder if we could have it separate from the blog content but have still on the same page. Would that be possible? Could the main content be divided into two sides? Author's content on the left and resteemed content on the right. Is it possible to modify the layout like that? That way resteems will still be on the main page and yet not juxtaposed with the author's content.
That would be an improvement I would be happy to see also! Anything to make the user interface more effective.
Yes, it makes sense what you say. Hope it will be picked up by some Steemit dev.
This is a really great idea. Are there any higher ups that we could send requests individually to for this?
Thank you Michiel I hope so as well!