Steemit Content Quality & Users Motivations
Steemit is a curious experiment. I find it very interesting from various angles, but the one that gets my head scratching almost immediately after joining is a genuine and honest question to what quality can the content on a social network devoted to written articles raise when the motivation behind some, if not a significant proportion of the users, is something else than enthusiasm for the topic in question and the love of writing.
While in short term the platform might work, its a real question whether it can thrive without encouragement for quality and serious content in the long run. And as each person has their own idea of quality, and none of them being superior over the others, we quickly come to a question of necessity of the guidelines for raising the content quality or maybe even editors, which is really quite opposite of what decentralization is all about.
Really curious thing. At a quick glance it's quickly obvious in what state the content currently is, even the top upvoted posts - and such state surely can't be in the interest of the platform, can it?
Any thoughts on the topic?
Quality on here since the beginning (I've been here since June 2016) has been understood to be content that gives value to others.
Thank you. Not much to add to that I guess and it cannot really be argued further :)
If the platform provides what people need and makes them happy that's really great. But does it, really, for the majority of the users? I guess I'll find out down the road...
Admittedly a lot of people on here are interested in cryptocurrency because people want/need money and are looking for easier ways to get it.
I have been on for 5 hours now, wrapping my head around it.
And without a working penalty system that can even diminish the power of so called "whales" I do not see any way content shown not even appreciated but just shown to the majority of sheep as ever standing a chance.
Within you will find your niche communities created via following and eventually the rest of steemit will fade away into a bad memory as you won't be able to find anything of worth listed as "hot or "trending" ,
I am new and definitely do not understand all the nuances as would some of the older users but I do not and never will see the logic in allowing the mob or few in power to run amok .
I would like to compare it to what I told one of my customers one day when they liked a design but it was not what they initially asked for : "People think they know what they want , but never know what they need"
Point being , steemit needs to not employ sjw mentality and special snowflake rules - because people are inherently pathetic greedy selfish inconsiderate... I digress.
A start would be to crack down on shit posting, and they need to decide whether this is a twitter style I had pizza for lunch platform or a I gave these words written here actual thought.
Also it should most likely just split the platform up since it could replicate all the main socials from the content already posted, and obviously a tweet should gets fraction the steem of a medium post if you know what I mean.
Or in the words of Umberto Eco, it's an invasion of idiots :)
Thank you for that I have been looking for a new way to refer to customers my boss does not like me referring to them as pissgesigte - translation "Piss Faces". Although he prefers it to the alternatives I have used.
Maybe I am too mean to be around people.