You Should be Reposting Old Material!: Quality is Better than Quantity
Now that I've been on Steemit for a few months one of the obvious flaws of the platform is retrieving quality information from previous posts. The Google powered search engine tends to pull up the oldest posts that are not necessarily the most relevant and/or is dated information. Many of us resteem certain posts simply to be able to find it again for reading. The nature of the payment system is a double edged sword. It encourages people to keep creating but this has a tendency to burry quality posts fairly rapidly. Another issue is that new members of the community may produce excellent material that is never seen and conversely they may never see other's useful insights that are now hidden in the archives.
Humans tend to have biases that would make us feel as though reposting old material is a bit like double dipping. Would an AI be biased in this way? NO! Would you prefer radio to never replay a classic tune? Wouldn't it be silly for a school teacher to refuse teaching a subject because they taught it the year before. If it is good info and it benefits the community then repost it rather than letting it die! Much of the info related to crypto might seem like old news not worth reposting to a person who is constantly following the space but IMO the good posts deserve several lives over the course of a year. If you get to make some Steem twice be proud that you've produced something that people still want to read! You are doing the platform a favor! So go through your old stuff, update where necessary and put it back out there. Steem is growing with new readers everyday! Better to have quality than quantity.
BTW: That's a snapping turtle riding on the back of an alligator :)
This is a great point, you get a lot of work done in a post and in 7 days it's kind of forgotten, if people want to upvote because it was helpful they can't if it's past 7 days
BTW: I would up vote your comment if it wasn't for this. Currently my max up vote is .02 which gets rounded down to 0.00. Another part of the "stick and carrot" problem. Read this to learn more: https://steemit.com/steemit/@thedarkhorse/your-2-cent-vote-is-worthless-the-real-deal-on-dust-votes
Yes but I think it goes deeper than that. The "stick and carrot" of Steem can leave a bitter taste in a person's mouth. Many of us are very dedicated to seeing Steemit evolve and I have high hopes that it will. Until there is a more eloquent approach to balancing quality and quantity bloggers should take a manual approach by updating and reposting their old material. I would go even further and say if you don't plan on doing this you should allow others to repost your old material without a restriction on earnings (if permission is given then credit the author). A lot of the info out there is essentially didactic and the Steem community needs to be able to access without going through the proverbial "Easter egg hunt". Think of it like Wikipedia with a payment system. I promise you the original content creators would ultimately benefit. So 1st one should repost their own stuff and if they don't they should encourage others to do it for them. Another thought is that Steem could benefit from a royalty system (if technically possible). i.e. Curators could truly organize info if they could repost older content without concern for copyright infringement. Win for author, win for curator, win for community!
That's brilliant William this show is that there's allways room for improvement, you should give this idea to the dev team
Hi William, I am a newbie and feel overwhelmed in an ocean full of whale's content. I'm so glad and thankful for groups such as @curie, they give some newbies like myself a much needed boost not only in steem but moral boost as well. Thank you for your post!
''Quality is Better than Quantity'' this is a must philosophy of the Steem Community..
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