Overall I'm impressed with steemit.
Here's my run-down of the positives and the to-be-worked on:
Pros
-Hyperlinking
-Multiple videos in post and comments
-Deeper layers of commenting
Lacking
-Functionality of things like "Submit a Story" for common browsers like Firefox and Chrome
-Ability to modify posts at a later time
-Ability to delete posts
-Replies that have been looked at highlighted
-Ability to include many labels (not just 5)
Some of the features you suggest were here but caused problems and so they were removed.
eg. Tagging was being overly abused. People wish to be able to find only relevant content under a tag. If you look at the most popular #steemit tag you'll see that this one is still being abused by non-steemit related content.
Also the reason posts cannot be deleted or edited after the payout is because they are on the blockchain, so if the currency is to exist every post must also exist forever.
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Thank you for your comment. I have come to an annoyed understanding/realization of this.
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So you can modify posts, for a while at least. Useful for fixing mistakes. I hadn't realised you can't delete. That's a issue, but what would happen if you deleted after people had voted? Do need to be able to see which comments are new.
I think labels should be limited or people will abuse them. This forces them to choose the most relevant.
I expect we will see more improvements. The site is still in beta after all.
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I hadn't either until just today.
If I deleted after people had voted, their votes are gone; the money is lost. Is that so complicated?
No, I don't HAVE to see which comments are new.
I also don't HAVE to have the ability to hyperlink, or have comment replies go 4 layers deep, both of which are reasons I consider steemit superior to facebook.
But hey, I COULD just stay with facebook for some things, like their highlighting of which notifications I haven't clicked on yet...
So many things that we don't "need", but which we take for granted because they make life so much easier and flowy... like Bitcoin. You don't NEED Bitcoin, do you? You don't NEED YouTube, do you? Little optimizations congregate and amplify each other, and they all matter. Like how YouTube started ignoring formatting concerns - and things went, and kept going, downhill, by twists and adjustments.
Unfortunately, I agree: people are focused on the short-term gain, and it's really saddening to see that effect.
I'd just like to be able to use any browser to "Submit a Story", for a start!
And yes, replies that I haven't clicked on, being highlighted, would make for much less of a headache when checking to see if there are new replies, or if there was a reply I wanted to respond to later (which, with how it is now, I have to deduce that to be the case by careful observation).
I expect to see more improvements as well :)
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The site is still pretty basic. FB and G+ act more like apps and I expect some of that functionality will come to Steemit in time. A better user experience will encourage people to actually read stuff.
We don't NEED this web stuff to be honest. I was off-line for most of my life. Then I used bulletin boards in the 90s, via a modem. The web is barely out of its teens and Steemit is a newborn.
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No, we don't. That doesn't mean that technology is the cause of our problems in the least.
We also don't need books, microwaves, blah blah blah.
Are you aiming for anarcho-primitivism?
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Why do you want + 5 tags?
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Why wouldn't I?
I can add around 20+ tags in my YouTube videos.
I don't always use all of the space, but it's nice to be able to include tags of the relevant subjects. I might talk about... quantum mechanics, capitalism, fractal dynamics, money, scarcity, The Venus Project, community living, numerology, the illuminati... and so forth, all in one video, for which I would then give it those tags. Here? Um... quantum mechanics.... scarcity?... capitalism... fr... fractal...s...
It's like I'm worried about money all over again. It's a pain in the fucking ass to try and limit the topic range. And only the first label is even emphasized. It's just like the processed food labels where the first ingredient is the one that there is "the most of".
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All valid points. I don't make videos, yet, but I do understand what you are saying.
I use the 5 tag limit to limit my content to max 5 tags... I tend to go off an a tangent trying to explain my understanding of things and then spend very little time on the point. 5 tags assist in keeping it to the point, or at least to a factor of 5 max!
The emphasis on the 1st tag is a bit annoying, agreed. It should be an emphasis among all 5 tags equally. That would be fair.
Users will rate the content based on where it is filed... If a user uses the steemit tag and they're talking about his collection of knives, then he should be voted down.
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And therein lies the danger of the "shoulds" that relate newbies to a format herebefore undiscovered and undisclosed. That is pre-emptive reaction to downvote in relation to "steemit" and "knives", created by the artificial restriction of expression.
If someone continues to do so after it is talked about, that's one thing.
And, as well, to alter that shit way of doing it, because it creates that very scenario without ill intent from the user.
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