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RE: Thoughts and alternative proposal on HF20
Interesting reading.. I'm a newbie here, but I have to agree with you, everytime i click on the New section i see hundreds of new posts.. in just minutes! I'm trying to post interesting and unique content, but it get lost in the crowd! I guess that will be disappointing for new users, so many of them will quit quickly.. don't know if that's good or not o.O
Yeah, it's bad. That's why other social media platforms, like Facebook, have automatic algorithms to select what will be shown to the users. The problem is, of course, that users will then see only what Facebook wants them to see. They no longer control the experience themselves.
Steem has a chance to make users to be in control. We just need tools to create a custom feeds, based on what we are likely to be interested in. Also we need a much better notification system, otherwise a lot of posts worth reading will be missed.
Fortunately there is the community feature coming, which I think will help a lot.
I was a user of tsū.com before they closed the door, but before they did close, they introduced a community system.
That made it, almost overnight, become a much better way of finding what you wanted to see.
Tsū was a lot like steemit, the monetary system was different, but essentially it worked like steemit in how users got paid for posting.
Before the community system most users found things by the tags associated with the posts.
Each community had a head moderator who essentially was paid a percentage of the value of all posts, they were allowed to have up to two deputy mods who got paid a percentage of the head moderator's income from the group.
This system worked great.
It couldn't have been completely awesome if tsu.com closed their doors. Do you know why they went under?
Lol, tsū was, unknown to general users, explained as an experiment when they all of a sudden closed their doors without notice.
Loads of tsū family here now.
But the Groups/Communities addition was like the days in the old West when the gov opened up new land to settlers, people stampeded for the "Owner" status of the group's that they wanted because the owner took 50% of all post income from the groups.
You were required to have a balance of $100 in your account before they would cut a cheque, that made a lot of people angry when they closed and didn't have enough in their account!
Pretty shady dealings really.
Interesting background. Thanks for providing info. 50% going to group owner was clearly the wrong number. But I could see concept working and being reasonable if it was something like 5%; as payoff for all the curation work that would be needed to be a good owner of each community.
No obvious reason why steemit.com would shut down in the short term. As long as there is a 9% or 10% inflation rate there will always be some type of rewards pool to distribute. And if confidence in platform grows, the open market price of STEEM could continue to rise which will attract continuing interest for new entrants.
STEEM On !!
Cheers Dave!
How do you know the community feature is coming? Can you provide a reference to what HF20 will be providing?
This might help you Dave - https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitblog/proposing-hardfork-0-20-0-velocity
You can read this and pay attention to the Conclusion.
Thanks for pointer. Looking forward to the millions of new users, errr, sort of.
It's mentioned in the roadmap: https://steem.io/2017roadmap.pdf