RE: Etiquette guide to help SteemIt succeed
I love to follow people. I love freedom. I love quality. I love people. I love to beg. I love to do what I want to do. I do not like it when people tell me not to beg. I have some freedoms. People should probably follow who they really want to follow. How many people should people follow? Less than 200? Maybe. I am following over a thousand. Is that bad? It depends. I think it is a process that you cannot put an exact number on. I believe a lot of the things you wrote above is possibly and potentially or hypothetically too subjective and relative instead of objectivity from God. I do like the idea of being careful. People should focus more on content. People probably should spam less, perhaps, but the word "SPAM" is a word that is very relative and it is as general and undefinable as like fake news and CNN and many things. Good post. Good work. We are making Steemit great and greater than ever before.
Freedom is good, but then you obviously can't expect everyone to act fairly or even rationally :)
There is a perfect balance between freedom and efficiency, SteemIt hasn't found it yet in my opinion.
Agreed. But can people really find balance? I guess we can try our best. I love capitalism. I love rewarding people with more if they do stuff we like. It is a perfect trade. The best we can do is do our best to give more money to people we like. I do not want to steal money from people. I just want to focus on the people I like more and give them more money. I do not want to take too much or any money from people I do not like.
A lot of people are greedy though, including me.
I also feel that it is rigid to say to not follow more people than #insert a figure#. If I'm interested in multiple topics and there are quite a few people publishing relevant quality content, then why shouldn't I follow 500 people. If I'm OK with not always spotting the most useful posts, but like to be fed with more or less randomly-picked posts that I then decide to focus on - and this is what would happen if each of the 500 people published one article per day and my attention span probably sufficing to scan through 100 posts a day - then why not.
The problem is following people without a solid reason except for the hope that they follow you back to return the "favor". This is indeed something to advice against.
I understand wanting to follow more people and we also both agree on the consequences :)