These are random notes, not necessarily good ideas or even proper grammar. I'm sure most of these suggestions have been covered previously by others. These are My notes. <3
Editing forever: For example so artists can make a "commission" page and then update it, and it will be their permanent @user/commissions page and they can link to it from everywhere else and keep it up to date. (Last time I checked, posts could not be edited once they were a certain age.)
Long-tail rewards: On that note, I'd like to see posts able to be upvoted and resteemed forever. There's little reason to upvote content over a certain age but it is tricky to see everything worthwhile all at once.
Add the git editor back as an option! Please. :) I'd just gotten to like it.
Preview and editing of post URL during the post creation phase, to allow custom URLs and planning.
Add more post control options as advanced options. Such as max payouts, etc. Whatever Steem/Steemit supports.
Smoother payouts: Offer users the option to "smear" payouts over a week or two, so instead of post rewards like $0.01, $0.01, $10.00, $0.01, it would be something like $2.00, $2.00, $4.00, $2.00 Random rewards make people confused and sometimes crazy, as we've been seeing lately.
Problems on Steemit aren't the whales fault. If you woke up a millionaire one day you wouldn't want to be blamed for all the problems. :D
Burning SD for promotion: I understand reducing the currency supply is vital to keeping both inflation and deflation under control. (many altcoins got this wrong lol) But is there something else that could be done with it? Like donations to charity or something? This might will need conversion to other currencies. Also this is good advertising for Steem/Steemit.
The 24-hour initial period may be too short. I've seen news take a few days to really make the rounds. And sometimes we need a reminder of old news.
There's a bug in the HTML editor/raw editor where it strips out links and discards HTML that it doesn't recognize. (<hr> is a good one to get lost, add it and then switch modes, it'll vanish. The bitcoin image at the bottom kept losing the link, also.)
Edit: How could I forget, Steem needs paper wallets/blank checks/some way to put money onto a public key and hand that and the private key to someone. If there is such a site please post it. I'm in love with https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com/ so if can suggest it to them please do so. - I may have a design contest for this soon
Edit2: @bryan-imhoff mentioned the reward change. I was thinking about multiple reward cycles, 7 day, 30 day, and 1 year recurring, with chances to upvote the content during each cycle.
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Thank you!
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I've seen that posts being editable forever is on the list for the next blockchain update.
While posts still won't be rewardable forever, that too is being changed to a single 7 day payout timeframe, vs the current one day and 30 day payouts.
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Nice! Good to hear. :) I think "permanent" pages will really help Steemit.
I do think some content is worthy of being distributed for longer periods. I can think of tons of great posts both here and on other social media sites that I'm happy to see multiple times. I'd love to be able to go back and reference it and re-reward the author, and bookmark the URL in case I forget. :D
oohyeah I forgot to add multiple rewards/upvotes. Maybe with a delay. This is part of the long-tail - For those unfamiliar, in sales terms, the long tail means selling something over and over for years and making your real profit over long periods of time. The initial sales boost for most things is great but it will be the decades of selling that really does the heavy lifting.
I'm not like a huge sales guy, I was just reading video game authors who were writing about their experience selling games.
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I definitely agree with you, but I think realistically the serious creators and entertainers will need to build their own long tails with other streams of revenue to offset the fact that post rewards themselves are not ongoing. I personally have no problem with affiliate links within posts or directing readers to a personal website that may make use of product sales, advertising, patreon/kickstarter, etc.
I think we get some long tail effect by building a following. Although followers may only be able to vote on a post once, they become much more likely to vote on each and every post by their favored authors in the future.
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True, and I'm sure there are other downsides to it, too.
Mainly it was part of the 'permanent post' idea, also, meant to reinforce the idea that there is content worth of being permanent, and perhaps permanently rewarded.
I'm not married to the idea tho, and it certainly needs restrictions.
Personally I think that if something is that popular that it is being resteemed a year later or more, I think it deserves another upvote. XD
... I think I'm too tired to write well.
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You're writing fine! Get some rest though, I've gotta turn in too!
I just definitely think it'll always be a battle between what is ideal, and what the technology can handle.
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Thanks, and take care!
I really love Steemit. <3
edit: for those worried about the price of Steem, everything looks terrible compared to Bitcoin right now, keep that in mind. It is a great time to invest in cryptocurrency in general, these are still the early days of things, relatively speaking. You'll be telling your grandkids about when BTC was "only" $1,000 and when Steem was LESS than a dollar instead of SD being worth fractions of Steem.
btw to Steem witnesses, miners. etc, more currency = less value.
ok I'll stop now.
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very meta but this post is an example: I just found it, it is interesting want to now more and so I am replying. Will you theoretically receive any value from this upvote and comment? Will you in the future? I can see a problem though with allowing posts to earn forever: that means that you will start to create a divide in STEEM POWER to old timers, because they had first mover advantage.
On the other hand, a post being new vs old is not a good indication of value either.
It will incentivize only posts about topical current affairs stuff and if will punish a more evergreen approach to posting. Which will have a skewing effect on the content. Most trending posts currently are about Steemit.com's price for example. That does provide some temporal value but in a week they are utterly irrelevant, so steemit.com can fill up with garbage eventually.
I love these feedback loops in complex system. Subtle rule changes can have huge impacts!
Curious if this comment will be seen / commented on.
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I'll be honest, the whole thing where you can't edit a post after a certain amount of time and not being able to earn rewards after a certain amount of time have been huge bummers for me.
Like I had a few plans for what I wanted to do on Steemit when I first started using it again, but they involved editing posts as things progressed. As it stands, I have to use Tumblr as a work-around for it, which is a huge pain because Tumblr loads really slowly for me.
(Using phone tethering WiFi and not being able to escape a frigging ocean of trees will do that to ya.)
Then it's really disappointing to find a cool post, only to realize that it's been a few days/weeks/months since it was posted. Even if I can still upvote it, it feels like a moot point because I don't have enough SP to be worth anything, and it's not like I have a convenient little list of things I've upvoted that I can go back and look at if I want to.
I'm sure there's another site that lets you look at your past upvotes, but idk it's just kind of annoying.
There's honestly a handful of tools that, if I had them at my disposal, I'd probably just make Steemit my main place to be, and go to dA/Tumblr when I got bored/frustrated and needed to binge fanart :'P
Basically like an About page, a Search function (like, specifically searching a person's blog)... And being able to get notified when specific people post stuff (like how YouTube and Tumblr will send you push notifications for certain people if you ask them to).
Steemit's still in beta, I know, but literally there's not a whole lot it would need for me to be able to use it without having to use another site in conjunction lol.
Now if I could just get ANY of the people that I invited to Steemit to bloody post anything... >x'(
(Sorry for the text wall btw)
(Halfway thought about just posting it as a new post, but like)
(Nah)
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These are all awesome ideas, and yeah I know what you mean, it's hard to resist gushing about Steemit. XD
I try to remember that it is basically new. Tumblr and etc have had lots of time to add improvements. The new image uploading feature is pretty sweet, for example. :)
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YESSSS I love the new image feature, I get excited every time Steemit gets new features, even if I usually find out about them a few days or so late xD
That is something that makes it exciting to be on a new platform, watching it evolve and such.
I'm just imaging some months or years from now, older Steemians will be like "OH YEAH, you guys think this random thing is inconvenient? I remember BACK IN MY DAY, we couldn't even CHANGE OUR AVATARS, everybody had the same boring grey face" just sounding like an old geezer berating a kid, even if they're like a seasoned 12-year-old on Steemit or something talking to some newbie in their 30's LMAO
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Lol yeah that happens on Tumblr now, Steemit will have a whole crowd of "back in my day" folks. XD It's always awesome to read those posts, I always enjoyed hearing about that sort of thing. Even real-life stuff.
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interesting..
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Thanks! :D If you have any feedback, please let me know.
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I don't really think that 30-day rewards cycles are necessary, since most voters don't even really vote outside of the first hour. But if they're going to eliminate the 30-day payout, then I think they should just make it 48 to 72 hours max. There's really no reason for 7 days. Unless they're going to overhaul the curation system, then most votes will still be in mostly before the first hour is over.
Also, the 7-day period may be too long for new users who are looking to test the system. I don't know how long someone would be willing to stick around for their $0.05 payout. And it certainly doesn't help with the more time-sensitive posts about certain initiatives/fundraisers or contests. It will only serve to delay them and mostly for no good reason. If they insist on a 7-day payout, then perhaps they should offer the option for users to cut it to 48 or 72 hours. Make it an option like the 50/50 rewards split or 100% SP option.
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Maybe 1 day, 7 days, 30 days, and then 1 year recurring? I mean if it is worthy content then it'll get upvoted. I've seen stuff on other media platforms come around multiple times, and I've loved it each time. It was always sort of the "right time" - I know that doesn't happen here but that's because the reward structure discourages it.
I don't know if this community even wants that sort of thing.
I'm not demanding it. :) These are just notes.
edit : It could extend curation rewards too, so if you got in early on day 1 of some hot item, you'd be better rewarded.
1 day, 2 day, 30 day, yearly recurring works too XD
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From what I understand, that would be too much of a memory issue. It's just not practical to have posts open that long. 30 days is about the limit that they're willing to do. But Maybe do a 48-72 hour and a 14-day period. Although, like I said, very few votes come in after the first day.
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The current system does somewhat discourage voting after the first day though. I've voted past 24 hours because I found the content worthwhile, but I don't see much of that going on otherwise.
And yeah I have no idea of the technical limitations behind it. XD
I do have every confidence that there is some clever solution to any technical issue that Steem faces.
I think the multiple-cycle voting could improve Steemit. If you can vote multiple times on an older post, you can show that you really appreciate the content. Voting power isn't to be used lightly. It would help organize the content on Steem. A post that was upvoted multiple times during the cycles must obviously be important, and we could add a page for that like for the "new" and "hot" ... call it "oldie but goodie" XD
also there could be multiple ^ symbols and colors that would be awesome to see a post with like "^ ^ ^ ^ *!" next to it ok I'm rambling now.
edit: we could always let the post author choose the schedule. XD - and I realize there are technical issues the way things are now, I haven't read the steem source yet myself, but back in The Day when I did programming there was always some clever, elegant solution to any problem.
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