There is something I'd like to see with Steemit. I don't know if it's feasible to do, but I'm going to throw it out there and see, just in case.
I believe that everyone in the world should have a chance at Steemit. It's a great social network and should help many people and maybe even our economies. I do have a suggestion that, if it can be done, might help out some.
When I see an article that looks interesting, I'll click on it to read. Sometimes, as happened twice today, I find out that the person that did the story is not very proficient in the English language. I wanted to read the articles, but I just couldn't because you could tell that they just ran their language through a translator and copied exactly what it translated, and it didn't read very well. In addition to that, there were other words and sentences, that I assume they thought they knew, that were just wrong. One of the big ones was the confusion with "he" and "she" or "him" and "her". I know English is sometimes a demanding language and even many Americans can't or won't speak it correctly. It just makes it hard to read something that is not written, at least, close to right.
My suggestion is maybe there should be a sub-category or two for Steemers. For instance, in this case, the person that typed this could be in the category: English is not my first language and then a category below that, their language. Or maybe just have different languages categories. Maybe break it all into different countries or continents. Something to help centralize it better. That way you would know ahead of time what you were getting yourself into and it would help others find things in the language, group, interest, hobby, sport, style ... whatever. Maybe there are even some advantages to this that I don't see. Maybe there are things that make this impossible or improbable to do.
Like I said, I don't even know if any of this is possible. Maybe I'm the only one that it bothers, but I had to get it out there for debate. What are some of your opinions on this subject?
An interesting idea - but the truth is that far fewer people would bother reading the content of anybody below a certain threshold of English proficiency. It is already tough enough to get people to (actually) read the content of the best posters out there without simply tossing their up-cote for "curating" purposes.
I personally believe that the message is more important than the language that it is delivered in. In other words I consider the meaning above all else. Which is not to say that the effectiveness of delivery is not important - as such clearly is.
The challenge inherent to your suggestion is to overcome the tendency for such articles labelled in such a way to simply be overlooked on the basis of such. Some messages are better-delivered by other Steemians - but this is not true for all messages - and some may well be too important to be lost to such labeling alone.
Still - keep on thinking! :c)
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Maybe so. It could be separated by country though. It seems to me that people from all countries would appreciate that, if they had a place to go directly to, to see posts in their own language. I see what you are talking about on the rest of that though.
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They have country tags to help with that... :)
Perhaps a simple way of expanding current functionality is to simply allow an extra tag which must derive from a list of country tags. It would be great for contextualizing posts - but not necessarily determine what level of English proficiency one is to expect within.
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nice post :D
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i like this post
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You are right. Some posts are difficult to read and understand. So many silly mistakes which could be easily avoided with just simple attention and proofreading before hitting publish button. But we are so busy and in a hurry that we do not read after write. Most mistakes are not for not being a native English speaker I think.
By the way, Nice article.
Tips for newbies : How to give a fractional upvote when your SP is below 500?
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Yeah, that too. Being in a hurry and not proofreading. Even if you have Grammarly there can still be mistakes. I know it's not all non-native speakers. As I said in the post, plenty of Americans can't, or at least don't, speak English properly.
I struggled for a long time to get my SP over 500. I finally got someone to delegate me some to get over. Now that I'm over on my own, and she took her's back, I see there is a way for fractional upvotes. I'll have to read that and save it in case someone else asks about it later.
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