RE: The Steemit Community And Its Weird Traits – 3 Ideas
These are good points. When I first started I didnt use bots and believed that good content would grow followers over time. I quickly became discouraged and almost have up on the platform! But now I have decided to use bots on my own stuff and use my very insignificant (for now) vote to help others. I plan on keeping that strategy as my vote value grows and hope that in the future I will build a community that will support each other and not need to use bots. That is a utopian ideal for sure, but something to strive for. I also like the idea of post making money in perpetuity; you are right; do a google search on anything to do with steemit or cryptocurrency and you will find the top ten populated by old, but still informative, steemit posts. I like the idea of people being able to earn forever on good content. There would have to be rules to hinder abuse, but I like the idea. Great post @nate.french, I look forward to more insightful posts!
Thanks for the comment ! I became discouraged quite quickly as well. But wanting to turn this thing into something great keeps me going. Opinions should get the upvotes, and the money! We need to make all those soulless posts go under, or disappear altogether. Right now, it's the other way around. Just look at the comment section on this post. Thanks for not being a zombie @stwbll 😊👍
Another idea is to maybe have vote power decided partially on participation instead of solely on steem power. Just as your vote power diminishes as it is used, the value should increase based on an algorithm that takes number of posts, recieved upvotes, given upvotes, curation etc. into account. This way youre not soley relying on others to help increase your power or just buying it with SBDs. Thoughts?
I also thought about having the power diminish if you are inactive, maybe even automatically moving it to active users. I'd love to hear a developers opinion if any of these ideas has ever been considered or even tested.
I would think that they would have at least considered some kind of reward for activity and if that is the case, I would like to hear their thooghts as to why they didnt do it also. Whether or not I agree with a situation, i still like to understand all the sides of the argument! I would like to be a fly on the wall during development meetings!
That sounds like a good idea indeed... Moving power away from inactive users, back into a pool, and from there on towards every active user, in a percentage of activity.
Should be possible, not sure if they’ve already tried it...