I don’t even know how to respond to this. I feel the pain behind your words, you guys need to remember, steemit, this whole beautiful thing. Still in BETA, its a long arduous process to figure out how to make a social media system like this work. It has never ever been done before. Manual curation is as important as bot curation. And localizing your voting parameters to a single tagline creates a centralized route for bad actorss to take advantage of the system. Vote for good content. Thats it. Enough pandering to people unwilling to put a vote or voice into the mix, people who are doin exactly what you say, trying to feed their wallets of your steempower and attention. Thats not right
We haven't just been curating steemstemm but also science, technology, engineering, math, and all other slightly related tags. The problem wasn't the amount (and sometimes not even the quality!) of posts, but people being unwilling to help each other.
How can a community function, if it doesn't interact with each other? Just posting and waiting for your vote doesn't make you part of a community. And that has been the problem with many members for a while.
We won't give in to people feeling entitled to our votes, don't worry, but we need to see a change in this community, if there is to be a future.
That makes alot more sense. Its sad because some of these people vote waiting as you put it dont realize the true value of a blog here. The conversations you can have during the week its active. And the money you can EARN being a part of that stimulation of neurons. Thanks for clearing up my inderstanding of the steemstem boting parameters. I actually respect the outlets your using. Thanks!
I don;t get you. I don't get any money in reading the blogs of others. It is the opposite way round...
I make quite a bit, because, I read the blo and give aome sort of opinion or addition to it in my own words that results in people liking what i have to say, it’s simple really, earn it, work for it. Think about what people are saying and put your own foot forward to make the discussion better. Thats what community is about.
Aaah, ok, you were meaning gaining knowledge, somehow. There is no value to that, IMO.
To repeat @suesa (interestingly enough, we are on the same lines :p ), we don't curate a single tag. We curate all STEM disciplines. This means more than 10 tags. Of course, the usage of the steemstem tag helps us, but we are not limited to this.
I interpret this as a "yes, work more, that's it". I answer: 'no thanks'. Not under these conditions. We need people (this includes you) to be a real member of the community. This goes beyond getting an upvote.