Recently there has been a lot of posts on reward pool abuse, etc. Its not a fault of one or two person, but its the fault of alot of really stupid to next to nothing posts getting way too much attention and upvotes. This is the reason alot who know how to abuse will do it, including paying resteeming bots,vote bots etc.
I have seen a lot of partiality also going on regarding whales supporting thier relatives/friends, etc. and programmers. Famous youtubers joining in and stealing alot of audience and also the top steemians supporting this. I know they are doing alot for steemit, but every steemian is different. People who made it at the very begining of steemit, are the only ones successful. I have seen posts with just a hot chick posing or just wishing a Happy New Year gets 100z to 1000z of $$ or a famou.
If you see the last 6 months trending page, Its either same person or similar type posts, and people upvote them without even seeing them for the curation rewards. I feel this will make alot of minnows loose their patrience and alot of people from joining it when there is dominance of this type.
Posts that trend all the time are:
- Programmers
- Crypto
- Steemit
- Meetups
- Chicks posing
- Some similar steemians
- Famous Alt. news Youtubers
There are alot of posts related to hobby, nature, life, art, pets, animals, religion, preachings, way of life, etc. that i never see or saw since iv joined, when these too should also get a fair chance.
Alot of them here click at the trending posts and write a few comments, only for money. Some use bots for upvoting, some get upvoted as they are friends with whales or are famous youtubers. Everyone is directly or indirectly raping the rewardpool using their power, just like the outside world.
We joined steemit for its fairness, but seems like whatever takes place on the outside world, same is happening here.
Remember, we all joined here for money, but at the same time for its fairness and wealth distribution. However thats not whats going on.
Here are a few simple ways we can change this:
- Remove the Trending/Hot/Promoted Pages
By removing them, one will only search for what they want and will only upvote what they have genuinely liked, instead of just upvoting for rewards. Every steemian regardless of the topic will get a fair chance and a similar audience.
- A bigger SEARCH bar and CATAGORIES only on the home page.
By doing this, one would only search or browse catagories what they are interested in. Im sure there are many who dont understand programming or crypto or not interested in Alternate news. Some might be passionate about their hobby be it from collecting stamps to keeping pets, etc. Some might be interested in farming or religions or history, etc. There are 1000z of different interests, but we just see 4-6 types trending all the time. This will restrict alot of them from becoming a member on steemit. I know alot would say that the community is growing, but frauds are too.
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Thanks for writing this. Hopefully something comes of it. I remember a few weeks back someone had posted a picture of a clock and wrote "To me, this is what is represented by time"... $32 that got. Unbelievable.
Perhaps a favourite subjects option would be good. Kind of like Reddit.
Cheers.
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Haha, let me find myself a clock.
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true..
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I FULLY agree. I joined last month and was thinking the same thing. It's still a young platform. Hopefully it'll continue to stretch and grow.
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Even if that happens, how would someone judge the worthy articles just by searching them on the search bar. Some articles are good and some are not. There should be some basis to judge that !!
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We upvote what we like, as simple as that.. Removing trending page means loads of posts will get a fair chance.
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There are so many spiritual, life, religious, sci-fi, hobby, etc. posts that are rally beautiful, and get just a few cents. removing Trending page will give give such posts a much fair chance.
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You might vote what you like but you can not view everything and choose from them. On google, the content is filtered on the basis of SEO and relevant tags, on youtube the videos are filtered on basis of the ones watched for a longer duration and tags ofcourse. There should be SOME criteria to filter good posts.
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Well if we go to google or youtube, we search for the content which we want to see, and not trending. However they have suggestions, we can do something similar here, so which ever post one searched for and is reading, u get somewhat similar posts in the suggestions.
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Are you aware that we still have a way to search for the required tag by going to the menu in the extreme right top corner and click on "EXPLORE". You can search for any tag provided there. It fulfills your demand pretty much. Check it out if you havent.
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I know, but you are not getting the point. If we remove trending pages, alot more posts will get upvotes. currently members are upvoting trending pages only for rewards. And really stupid posts are making 1000z of dollars. Do one thing, try searching for hobby or pets or animal posts or anything other then the topics i mentioned in my posts, u will see that really good posts are making only a few cents. not everyone is interested in programming and crypto or alt media (even though i am). Also checkout my post on FB vs steemit. I guess u might understand what im exactly trying to say.
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Great post! I love how indepth you went. I partially agree with this, but instead of removing the trending/hot/promoted pages why not create a new algorithm to make it more balanced?
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All bots are algos. we pay for votes and resteeming.
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My favorite tag is science, but I also enjoy art and crypto and programming. Yes there is a lot of variety in this world but for some reason things tend to polarize. Maybe we should add a tag that puts you into a random publication (I think that I saw that in reddit)
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im planning to make a video regarding this topic, lets see. However no matter what tags u add, your post wont be on trending pages unless ur one of the above. Its no longer wealth distribution. Dan Larimer left steemit project and built EOS for a reason.
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I've seen pictures of someones dinner, that look more like fast food take away, get paid more then the meal would cost for posting the pic,, nothing else just a picture, Nothing said about the meal just a pic,
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yes, its happening, and they dont give a F, just like the elites in the real world dont give a F about us. Its an "I lick yours, You lick mine thing"
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