The problem
For a newcomer the first couple of days are critical should he or she will stay or leave the platform. What we need right now is a growing new user base. We need to welcome the fresh minnows and encourage them. The introduceyourself tag is a great way to start making connections and commence the Steemit journey. When I joined, it took me some time to get to know the rules of the game. Like most minnows I was desperate to aquire some followers and I had so many things I wanted to share, in an attempt to raise some attention to my blog.
I see the same pattern repeating over and over with many newcomers. Not all are familiar with how they are getting rewarded, how and when to post, what to post about, what tags to use, giving credits etc.
No, Steemit is not that simple compared to platforms like Facebook or Twitter. It's not just blog and get payed. Because other users decide what is hot or not, things can get complicated. Unaware that posting more than 4 posts is not allowed, and not giving credits, many new steemians get flagged, even if you tell them that it's not OK just to spam the feed. This leads to frustration and some leave Steemit without realizing what an opportunity they are missing.
The solution
I'm no developer, but is clear to me that there should be an implementation to the code, stopping you from posting more than 4 posts a day. When you hit post, Steemit will not allow you to post until at least one post is older than 24 hours.
This will eliminate the spamming from new users and flagging will decrease. Minnows will understand the rule without being frustrated. It's a simple solution to a complex problem.
It might be 2-4 weeks before the revised HF17 comes out, but already 17.1 code has been pushed to the git repository, and that 4 post a day limit is gone, it is a part of the HF17 that is well supported. The witnesses have more or less built a consensus that the new 7 day payout cycle must have an anti-sniping/anti-spam feature added (it was going to be implemented without any way to prevent last minute down- or up-votes) and there is a big, and now quite proven argument for the elimination of the compounding of SP for the calculation of influence of votes on rewards (towards where one SP has the same effect whether it is the 10th or the 100,000,000th SP).
A lot of people don't understand why witnesses like @abit and @smooth have been flagging posts. It's not because they are nasty, they are doing it to negate the effect of whale votes, the majority of whales in agreement with this have ceased voting for the time being to allow the difference to be seen. Now, you can see that small rewards have generally increased 2-5x what they used to be, comments get often more than $1 reward where before they barely ever got any reward at all.
I think that anyone who understands this and has been watching the change in their rewards will agree that the flat rewards curve should be implemented (mainly because it rewards new users more, and stops the in-group mentality of whale groupies and whales voting on their own sock-puppets to collect more curation rewards).
There was going to be a splitting of the pool to allocate 38% of rewards to comments only, but this has not been well supported. If the rewards curve is flattened, automatically there is an increase in comment rewards because mostly minnows vote on comments.
I hope that more people will learn the facts about the situation and come on board and support the changes that the larger part of the witnesses are calling for. There has also been further revelations related to @dantheman and perhaps there will be another pump as the crypto-blogs publish more news about Steem... Even 'bad' news is good, better than not being talked about...
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Thank you for this very informative and technical analysis. In general, I'm perfectly fine with unlimited posting feature, it will help the platform grow even more. Still, the question remains, how are new users going to wrap their heads around the workings and rules of Steemit, not getting flagged along the way.
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Well, I think the pressure is definitely on Steemit to stop making downvotes look so bad (more often they are against other whales than out of spite) and yes, it needs to be further simplified. I think Steemit, Inc. is in a bit of flux at the moment, they have a new CTO, and now they have hired what hopefully will be a really good marketing guy, and now it seems there could be a minor scuffle between the former CTO and Steemit over improperly filed patents (!) so I think that there will be numerous bits of news that will keep Steem regularly on the crypto-blogs and if the price pumped past 400% again, who is really going to care, it will take some time for the new authors to fill up the channel and drive the individual post rewards down again.
I expect a bonanza pretty soon, a gold-rush... I am stoked because I would like to have a lot more to do with the development of Steem's software and having enough money to cover my bills and maybe get a nice shiny workstation I'll be able to really focus on this and help bring Steem to its Release Candidate stage and all you people who stuck it out through the difficult last 5 months, are gonna be glad you didn't power down sooner :)
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nice post @rossenpavlov
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Oh I have not even known that! :)
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Steemit was going to change that to unlimited posts but didn't they delay that?
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For now 4 posts.
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I totally agree with you, using a simple "alert" we can solve a complex problem. I think that new user come here from facebook or twitter are not "friendly" with the different rules on Steemit and the white paper couldn't be the only solution.
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great content,
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we need a good starting tutorial to, a game style one
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