Talk Channel: "Comment or ask a question"/ Comente o pregunte (week 325) in the WOX
The idea of "Talk Channel"
The Talk channel was created to share ideas and address any questions or concerns you may have. It's open to everyone; therefore, I invite you to participate by sharing your concerns, questions, answers, and ideas related to the platform.
"Talk channel" se creó para compartir ideas y responder a cualquier pregunta o inquietud que puedan tener. Está abierto a todos; por lo tanto, los invito a participar compartiendo sus inquietudes, preguntas, respuestas e ideas relacionadas con la plataforma.
Theme this week:
| # | Questions, Answers and Comments | Preguntas, Respuestas y Comentarios |
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| 1 | Do you closely follow any of the leading witnesses on the platform? Share one of their updates so we can analyze it together. | ¿Sigues de cerca a alguno de los testigos principales en la plataforma? Comparte una de sus actualizaciones para que podamos analizarla juntos. |
| 2 | Have you promoted or supported any contests on the platform? Share at least one of your favorites so we can appreciate its methodology. | ¿Has promocionado o apoyado algún concurso en la plataforma? Comparte al menos uno de tus favoritos para que podamos apreciar su metodología. |
| 3 | Do you think it is acceptable to use AI to generate images with the intention of complementing or structuring content on Steemit? What is your point of view? | ¿Crees que es aceptable utilizar la IA para generar imágenes con la intención de complementar o estructurar contenido en Steemit? ¿Cuál es tu punto de vista? |
These and other points we can discuss during this week.
Estos y otros puntos los podemos discutir durante esta semana.
Participate by leaving your comments, questions or answers here.
Participa, dejando su comentario, preguntas o respuestas aquí.
Everyone is invited to speak on the topics of their choice.
| Tell us a little bit about your "experience, criteria and/or doubts" regarding the Steemit platform, have the opportunity to answer or join other comments that the community may be making in the channel. | Cuéntanos un poco sobre tu "experiencia, criterio y/o dudas" con respecto a la plataforma Steemit, ten la oportunidad de responder o unirte a otros comentarios que la comunidad pueda estar haciendo en el canal. |
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We also invite other connoisseurs of the subject to present themselves here on "Talk Channel"."
In the "talk channel" we or you can also post a topic that needs a review, for example tools on Steem or other things you want to know about
Responsibility moderator for "Talk Channel" is @adeljose
Regards
@mister-omortson @stef1 @sultan-aceh @franyeligonzalez @axeman @xpilar @bambuka @petface @hardphotographer and @adeljose
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I don’t follow any Steemit witnesses closely, nor do I follow other Steemian users. I just go with the flow, seeing where my explorations take me, looking at the authors I’m reading, or the communities I happen to be in at the time.
For years, I’ve been promoting, sponsoring and funding all sorts of competitions, and it’s starting to wear me down. I did this for CCC a few years ago, then for freewriters, and I sponsored Art & Artists for a while, as well as competitions held on Knack4buzz and Steem for Betterlife.
Now I mainly organise competitions myself, and I feel that is enough. After all, no one sponsors me; often I have to write frantically, even backwards, for less than 50 cents, and can only pray that I’ll scrape together enough for the prize money. Incidentally, there are quite a few people here whom I once helped; now that their wallets are bulging, they’ve become particularly stingy and have never sponsored a single competition out of their own pockets. Interestingly, many of them have quietly left the community.
In this respect, the social aspect of this platform is virtually non-existent. Alas, this also explains why my growth is so much slower than that of those who write far less, rarely leave comments, yet consistently withdraw 50% of their Steem.
I think both my own contests and @solperez’s are good. Creative writing is an art, and very few people truly understand it. Incidentally, diving straight into the story is also an art, but hardly anyone can pull it off. Clearly, people struggle to grasp that you must capture the reader’s attention within the first few lines—and it absolutely must not be one of those clichéd openings like ‘Made with Canvas’ or ‘I am… from…’.
Incidentally, I also enjoy photography contests like the #photochain organised by @davidesimoncini. It’s actually quite nice to stretch your brain every now and then and head out with a camera to snap a few shots. Furthermore, to produce creative work, you need to learn to interpret prompts from different angles.
We’ve discussed this at length, and I believe they are acceptable. You can learn a great deal from them; when the Italian community held a competition asking participants to generate AI-generated images based on prompts. You can also learn to scrutinise such images and spot what’s wrong with them. This, too, is a form of creativity, and creativity is sorely lacking on this platform. It’s always the same old story here, full of mediocre, dull diary entries, poorly written, not to mention those titles.
Incidentally, on free image websites such as pixabay.com, there are also vast numbers of AI-generated images that have been included in their collections, complete with attribution. This means the images are owned by the individual, not the company that owns the tool.
@blessedlife @almaguer @bambuka @gektor What are your answers to the three questions above?
I hope you won't steal the ideas of the contests others are hosting?
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It's unfortunate that users are forgetting to support contests through their participation, but this may be because many accounts are being managed by centralized groups focused on booming votes and SteemCurator, participating in challenge contests, and posting low-quality content about Steem videos and games.
Writing contests are good; I personally promoted one on Steem Venezuela. I even brought the contest to WOX, but I saw that some accounts were trying to participate with empty, paraphrased content, which led me to close it.
I'm familiar with Solperez's contests; they're good because, besides motivating us to develop our creativity, they teach us about writers who have produced excellent work. I'll check out #photochain; I haven't actually seen it.
Regarding AI, excellent images and videos can be created that are very useful for complementing our content. I think it's a tool that can be efficiently leveraged on Steemit. By the way, I think it's fine that the images belong to the creators, and not the app owners.
Thank you for your contribution to our channel; I hope it's helpful to other users.
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You mean the contest @solperez hosts tells us more about thepainter not the writer. It is a out painters not writers.
I think it would be good to start a contest of your own and not copy the concept of someone else. Communities could be more creative if it comes to their contests and not copy others their ideas. If that would be the case the traffic to communities would be bigger.
I doubt the challenges are still as attractive as they were months ago. The upvote from SC01 became lower plus there's frequently no upvote at all and if it goes always to the same which can be easily checked if we look at steenworld.irg/@steemcurator01 . The account is by far not as active as it used to be.
There are plenty of Steemians who would love to join a contest even if the prize is low. The #photochain is a good example of that and so are my contests. People always join and in many cases they win.
What I did notice last year is that many used AI to join the poetry contest xpilar hosted, which is a shame. I miss the poetry on this platform just like creative writing.
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Yes, that's what I meant, that's why I spoke of excellent works, perhaps it was a mistake at the time of writing.
That's how it should be; there's no doubt we need to work on our own ideas and be creative. Personally, I'll definitely be changing my contest themes soon, as I've been doing throughout my time on the platform. I'll see what I can do to refresh my blog.
I think there are some good contests; my favorites are the ones about photographs and stories, but the latter is being polluted by cheating users who I hope will get tired of using AI to generate this type of content.
Gracias por la invitación. Responderé en un comentario directo al concurso.
Tengo algo que decir respecto a esos títulos de concursos que mencionas y respecto a las imágenes también.
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Todas tus respuestas "son dardos" certeros que nos permiten llamar a las cosas por su nombre. Sé que la verdad suele molestar a muchas personas, a pesar de que, normalmente, piden que les sean sinceros.
Comparto tus valoraciones con respecto a los testigos, a los concursos y al uso de imágenes diseñadas en IA.
Ya realizaré también mi comentario.