I agree with some of what you wrote, but I have disagreed from the beginning that anyone will come to a site for quality content.
Name a site that you go to, because they have the best content on the web. . .
I think it is this message (quality content) and our lack of functionality that most users on the Internet expect that inhibits our growth.
We don't have communities so you have to sift through everything to find what you want. That is the problem, not that some people spam.
If I want to operate a charity there are plenty of worthy causes. I am not sure why I would choose to select the steemit community to drop charity. Not saying I wouldn't do it here, I just don't see the "cause".
Anyway, I always enjoy your position on things even when we disagree. Keep making me think.
I don't really go to any website that I don't want to view the content on. Like Facebook or Twitter, I rarely even go to the site and never really waste much time reading or following anyone there. If people see nothing but spam they'll leave too, that's why I suggest using some of that whale power delegated to bid bots or lottery bots and actually adding long term value to the platform instead of going for a quick cash grab approach. Just my thoughts though. I can see your points as well. There are people that will strictly come to try to get money out of the platform or visit friends pages, but when it's someone that controls 20% of the reward pool spam voting their own "literally" no content posts or comments, then it's just like that 20% is actually a hindrance to growth.
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Boom, and there is another vote for some truth.
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When we get the communities feature, I expect a lot more people will use Steemit for what it was designed for.
I know I'll be rewarding the real experts in the niches I'm interested in, just like I do now on Reddit and YT. I'm guessing most others will do the same. I'm optimistic this will ease a bit of the selfish behavior.
Having said that, it seems we need new algos to disincentivize the most egregious profiting. Like buying 80k SP from the loan market to spend it on self-vote spam (saw that last week). The code should make such a scheme much harder to profit from. The community can do the rest.
I think @clayboyn brings up the right concerns, but flagging / police state / warfare is something I'd want to avoid at all cost.
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Maybe you could consider looking into my Witness offering and sharing a vote with me? I am trying to give back to the STEEM community with open source development and supporting projects helping other users.
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