What do you think?
Please comment, with your honest impressions of what you think could be done to improve Steemit 🤗
Steemit has incredible potential.
I believe in the technology and in the team building it.
Alwayspoweringup!
Those two accounts listed above are
@themadgoat & @sneak 🙂
Great topic to post about. I do use the odd bot here and there, but at most i spend about $4 per week and post regularly. It is a sad case of "if you can't beat them, join em" and I know this isn't good for the bigger picture of things. Bots aside, I think it has to have a impact when those at the top are already rich and the motivation to develop the site is then left to those with true passion for steemit. I am not in that circle and have no tech knowledge, what these devs have done is amazing, but you are absolutely right about steemit needing to keep up with the needs of its users. We all know the search feature is garbage and the trending page is a joke, indeed. I could get on with these problems alone, but the thing that gets me the most is the way our work gets buried so quikly. I would love to have two separate columns. One with my own posts and one with the posts I resteem would be great. That would make me a lot more willing to share other peoples work. And while we are making a wish list, I would love to have a top 5 posts, on my profile page(My own & resteemed).
Hope this is a helpful reply. Followed and resteemed.
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I like it - perhaps there could simply be another search function with resteems, listed in rank by # of times it was resteemed, to Hell with sorting by payout reward value.
I would certainly search that one for stuff people thought of as truly valuable.
That would definitely show what individuals found was time well spent.
👍
Thank you for the resteem @artwatch :D
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Yes good suggestion, that sounds a good way and very simple too. There is a great service named @trufflepig who searches for good contents and give it an estimated value/like count. I made the list once and was happy to see that my post had been rated as deserving a $28 payout! lol, but when do we get what we deserve ;)
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I particularly like the job you are doing here great post i have followed you. So true! Sorry i was stuck and used a bot on my two last posts, was testing the bots, great post I like it more of this
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Thank you! 😀
Try everything!!!
In this world of constant change, we should give everything a shot to see how it works and if we like it.
Thanks for your comment, have a great weekend!
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i don't believe in bot voting. cz i am confident that if my contents are good if people like it they will obviously upvote me. If new people see & visit my post & blog there can know each other talk & share thing but if a bot visit can't share & talk to that thing.that's why i believe in me that my contents are not that much low that i want bot voting.☺
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bot voting is for bot viewers in the long run, imho
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Agreed.
You could theoretically apply all of your Steem power to auto-upvote the people who regularly post; with 25% of the value of each post getting distributed to the curators (everyone who upvotes that post), essentially you've built a mining rig with your steempower to automatically generate Steem from your curation awards your bot earns for you by auto-upvoting posts without you ever even looking at the post.
I get it, buy Steem, power up, set your bots to work and come to Steem once a week to claim the rewards in your wallet and go cash out.
Maybe this is good (rich folks come in and buy lots of steempower so they can make money while they sleep using the bots - people buying Steem lifts the price of Steem).
Is that in the spirit of the platform though?
Time will tell...
Could be good, however, with only 6% of account users being on Steemit daily, I think this tells us something.
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You lost me there...
What's the difference between "high quality content" and "pictures of dead cats"?
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I dont think that the bots themselves are the issue but I think it is peoples greed when they realise they can just pay for votes and get to the trending page by posting anything, as you said a pic of food getting $50 is a joke.
I spend time writing articles and have used bots from time to time to boost my exposure and help to get more recognition. I think using them sparingly and with good content is ok.
Steemit needs the 'bot police'.
I think because the trending page is the first thing people see when they are new and they think hey I can write better than that maybe I could make $500 per post. Articles like this are not helping:
https://cryptorecorder.com/2018/04/03/how-to-earn-thousands-of-steem-dollars-sbd/amp/
Thats why so many people come and go - they think it will be easy but it does take time and effort.
I believe in the future of Steem, but as you say it has problems which need fixing or something better might just come along
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Nice 👍
Judicious use of bots was perhaps the initial intention - guaranteeing visibility for content that you're particularly proud of or think worthy of others benefitting from.
As with everything else, greed came in and ruined it...
I love your idea regarding limiting bot use.
Instead of people monitoring it (value is SO subjective), perhaps limiting use of bots to just twice a week, where you only get to 'maximally expose' two of your posts per week, thus (hopefully) keeping only quality content on the trending pages.
I've seen a lot of crap posts making lots of money (all posted by the same person) and I get sick of repeatedly seeing their name posting nonsense and I leave in disgust.
I think we need a lot more professional witnesses on here to promote posts they think have value.
That was easy in the beginning; now with the number of daily posts so much higher, are there any professional witnesses out there being paid in Steem to constantly watch the Steemit feeds to upvote great stuff?
@ned, are you hiring?
If so, I'm interested!
There we are at SteemFest², let me know brother!
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Yeah would hope that bot werent created with a more malicious intent. I guess its hard t create something with good intentions and predict they are going to be used they they are now!
I LOVE the idea of limiting the bot use to a couple of times a week (Maybe there should be a value aswell on how much you can spend per week on bots). This owuld make for a much more even and fair playing field and would be alot more encouraging for minnows. Surely this would be easy enough to implement. The hard part is convincing people it is a good idea.
I wrote an article with my ideas just the other day, where I suggest they change the layout of Steemit to include a 'organic' trending page:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@conradt/make-the-trending-page-great-again-organic-trending
Yea I dont name names on here but it does often seem the same people who post average quality (at best!) and get massive rewards. This is just taking advantage of the system for me, and isnt really helping with the long term growth of Steemit! Im sure some of these same people upvote their own comments to further boost their account - not cool!
Yeah I agree about the witnesses, we need people working full time to monitor the quality of posts on here - but wasnt that the idea of everyone working on 'quality control' by being offered curation rewards and thus having incentive to look for and upvote quality content? Have we moved away from the core design of Steem in that respect?
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I think, as many minnows power up across the board, that we are moving towards the core design of Steemit as voting power gets more spread out among the Steemit masses.
Pareto's law states that there will always be higher concentrations of power in a few amongst the many; that's just how the Universe is.
You want to know about inequality?
Just 3 individuals, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates; collectively are worth 60% of ALL the wealth in the United States.
Having more witnesses being paid in Steem to spend 8 hours a day, covering Steemit 24 hours a day, watching for awesome posts and giving THOSE posts the $50 upvote would make Steemit more attractive to the uninitiated masses who are new to Steemit.
Give those authors the chance to REALLY show the world how great Steemit is; not an early investor giving themselves a $100 upvote on a picture of a flower.
@hanshotfirst is a great example of true quality. So is @surfermarly, @neilstrauss, and my favorite Steemian, @themadgoat.
(After finding him I spent 2 days reading all of his past posts; too many 'laugh-out-loud' moments in a coffee shop to count 😂).
When the trending page gets fixed, that'll be a good start.
Perhaps a witness-reviewed trending page that people can go to in order to find quality?
The Steemit team is doing great, I have no doubt they'll do even better when we, the people of Steemit, offer constructive feedback on HOW to make it better.
🤜🤛 🤝
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I don't plan on using bots. That might be a downfall to me. I dunno. I do know though it's hard to find really good content no matter which way you search and that disappoints me.
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You're SO right!
The 'follow' feature is the only guarantee to hopefully strike gold twice with the same author.
Going 'fishing' by looking through any topic or feed isn't time well spent... Sometimes you get lucky though, so occasionally I'll try anyway 🙂
I trust the devs to fix everything, eventually.
If they don't, the free market consequences will direct the masses to where they want to be.
Television killed radio.
YouTube is killing television.
Will Steemit (with dtube) kill youtube?
Fun times ahead!
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I have been always powering up. I don’t plan to change it. Honestly, I was experimenting with few of my posts I did recently, whether buying votes is profitable or whether it’s rip off. Some people like it, some are against it. I was curious. My overall experience was only few are worth investment. 90% are rip off and I won’t use them at all in the future. There was one individual selling votes. He was fair, but when big whales noticed him, noticed that he was making better offers than those big 2mil SP bots, they started downvoting him and eventually he had to stop it. Many people with high SP are now starting to sell votes. I’m afraid, in a long run, it’s not a great idea.
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Good to know!
Thanks for telling us about your experience and what you saw happen @rothberg 👍🙂
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Please consider this and apologies for coming here twice, i have seen your steem power looks great well done how i wish i had something like that, i calculated how much you could get if you dedicated that amount to @st
eameart, please check out the pix below
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Whoah!
Thank you for sharing @melissaofficial!
Following you now 🙂
I'll keep manually upvoting (for now) because it feels good to upvote and recognize people new to the platform.
I'll likely delegate when the value of Steem, and my steempower, gets even higher.
Thank you! 🙇
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Always improve writing and post interesting and entertaining things. Of course steemit account users will vote on our writing. And also increase SP. In order for us to win long-term voting votes
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