One of my favorite pastimes - when I do have some free blocks of time to spend, which doesn't happen very often - is to peruse Steem's GitHub repo. It's like peeking through door while your parents are arranging the presents under the Christmas tree. You get to see a lot of cool stuff.
So here are a two things that I saw this morning:
- SMT (Smart Media Tokens) creation is advancing very fast. I didn't expect to see so much work on this feature, because, from the white paper, I got the impression the launch is "sometimes in 2018". But looking at how the code advances, I think it may be sooner. I didn't see any fixed hardfork date yet, so this is just speculation, but there are a lot of pull requests and tasks related to this. The blockchain version for this specific release is 0.21, as you can see from the screenshot below.
There is also an intermediate version 0.20, but there is no description and there are no tasks attached to it yet.
- the post limit may be lowered, allowing for a Twitter-like project built on top of Steemit. As you can see from the issue below, devs are taking into account a new way of limiting user posting. Right now, there is a 5 minutes limit to your posts, which makes a Twitter clone very difficult to create.
So, as you can see, things are happening and are happening faster than expected. I'm really looking forward to the SMT release.
Steem on!
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I think posting rate should be related to your reputation. I you've been really flagged then you can maybe do one a day to try and recover. New users (at 25) would be allowed to do a few, maybe 6 a day until they build up a little. This would be an issue for bots unless people really like what they do.
I'll be interested to see how a Twitter mode could work alongside the longer posts. I don't necessarily want my feed flooded with one-liners. I used to use Twitter, but I rarely visit now.
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I think there's an audience for everything, might be interesting for some people.
Reputation is a vanity metric. Its usage on Steemit is purely frontend based (it hides the posts from the site, but they are visible on the blockchain). I think something more alongside the bandwidth algorithm already in place would be more suitable.
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That's interesting. So the 5 minute limit is at the blockchain level, and would then affect busy.org, chainbb etc
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I think reputation is more than that as it can be driven down if people think you are behaving badly. We want to protect the users from the bad apples. I'm sure the team have considered various options for this.
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I really like this one, @steevc.
Works on a lot of levels.
If a level 30 knows he only has one post a day, he's going to make it a good one.
Edit: looks like it wouldn't work though.
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I'm just throwing ideas out there. I'm sure cleverer people have considered this.
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My thoughts exactly. A couple of the suggestions I've made,
The guys who built this place are incredible, so I don't mind hearing 'no', but it's nice to know the idea's had a fair hearing.
Edit: Funny, I was just reading back through the minimum rep post, and I notice you've commented :)
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Such heavily restricted comment capabilities would have driven me from the platform. Commenting is essentially the only way to stretch out on this platform out of the gate.
I suppose author gating options might be good but it was the opportunity to engage higher level users that guided me quickest on here.
Reputation isn't a perfect system. Downvoting organizations seem to be one self policing component here on Steemit. I think that better mentoring/scaffolding for new user onboarding would be valuable. But I do think it is beneficial that there are mechanisms to spin people out of view for bad behavior/poor content.
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I addressed those concerns in the article.
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Ah, yeah - didn't realize you had even linked articles in that previous response. Couldn't make out a color change on my screen at the time.
The minimum rep piece has good theoretical ideas, structures some interesting components in terms of buffering on the upper levels. Still though, without a better tutorial or even partnership from well established accounts, I think the proper usage/retention rate is going to be an issue on the new user side.
I guess I'd like to see more investment from Steemit to the new user base because I am a member of that group. There's definitely been positive change in the 3 weeks I've been dabbling with the network but I also understand how some people get turned off in the early phases.
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Yes I've seen minimal response too.
I guess not responding to questions and suggestions from the hoi poloi is a deliberate part of beta testing.
I think we need to stop thinking of ourselves as customers, with a list of requirements...
or I'll take my business elsewhere
...and more as lab rats sniffing out a lump of cheese.
If I'm getting paid, then steemit is the customer and I'm the service provider.
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I was asking myself whether frequency of posting constraint is a blockchain (backend) code or implemented on the frontend. Now I can assume that it is a backend code limiting the posts, isn't it?
Looks like more rules and math are in store for us :)
Devs are thinkinking in algorithms and formulas way too much.
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It is a backend thing. I remember that at some point there was some white spam (posting incessantly for days, meaningless stuff) from a Russian guy, until they implemented this.
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Free "blocks" of time to spend... Yeah I liked that! I understand that you're a busy person and I just want to take a little bit of your time and do something that's a little unexpected but I am here asking you for support because I'm a Steemian who's here for the long run and I just need a little financial support (to be honest). I see some people creating amazing content that's original and getting regular upvotes and I wish I could get some kind of consistent support to enable me to keep writing and posting because I have a lot of content that I want to share on the Steemit platform and help increase the network effect, but I don't have enough support to make this something I do full time. Can you help me out? Maybe you could put me on your automated curation trail? Sorry again for putting you on the spot. I'm in Africa and I don't really have much resources.
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@dragosroua Thank You for the Update this is Very Exciting................
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I do not understand where the difficulty is? Who is spaming twitter posts every minute anyway? P.s. Vety excited about SMT we are doing one for sure!
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You do not get "money" for tweeting on Twitter ;) Or SMTs in a near future ...
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What i have meant, that 5 minute window for a normal user tweet is totally acceptable. Main tweet post 5 minutes = OK. Comment 3 seconds = OK. Do not see why it should not work. Maybe something else i do not know.
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Maybe restrictions linked with reputation points?
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Possible, but after Velocity Hardfork, there will be other posting restrictions in place, that will vary based on the user. Now you need steem to create an account which allocates certain bandwidth, after "effortless on boarding" is implemented user will have to "earn" his bandwidth as it will not require any steem to create an account. So i guess we have to wait and see.
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Tweet replies (conversations) can happen quickly
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Comments are happening quickly too, i think people would be ok with a 3 second limit.
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Comments can happen quickly because they are folded under the root post so they don't fill Steemit's 'created' listing. If a bot can make a root post every 3 seconds that essentially renders the 'created' pages useless.
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So if you consider a tweet as a root post that can be made every five minutes and all replies as comment under the root post with 3 second window wouldn't that work? or did i get it wrong?
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Yes that would be a workaround. The discussion in the github issues was about should we use work arounds or change the limits.
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Ok, i was thinking this is not a workaround but expected behaviour. Sorry for bothering you and thanks for your replies!
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Your welcome. Basically on twitter everyone is shouting at each other with root posts and then twitter tries to make it seem like a discussion with the UI. I think it makes Twitter much less friendly. Personally i hope we can do better.
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impressive
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nice post
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