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RE: Get Featured on Steemit.com!
I'm conflicted about this - featuring posts and bypassing the stake-weighted voting system feels like a step backwards for #newsteem.
- Why hold SP and attempt to trend when you can just contact Steemit Inc and be featured instead ?
- Is there a cost to be featured ?
- Are you thoroughly investigating new projects that ask to be featured - so we don't have (seemingly) "officially endorsed" featured posts for the next dlive or SBI ponzi scheme pinned ?
- Do you now consider the featured posts function as another form of advertising to be sold ?
Featuring the occasional network-wide status update, or major development/fork news is one thing.. Opening it up to whoever asks nicely is another. Please don't overdo this.
I agree, at least make part of the requirement to burn a certain quantity of STEEM for it.
This is not only an excellent way to return value to Steem but also to reduce the number of dumb/spammy applications which then take time to evaluate, just the delegation committee is doing. The same method is also used by SPS.
i also agree with you too.
slap me with some raycorns. I call mah baby BAE corn
BIT corn
blockchain CORN supply chain using thomas cox strongblock :D
hey but for real ima buy some ads soon and give some tokens to steemians. i will actually burn at least 1 steem when i buy my ads to set a good example :)
I'm fine with this. Steemit.com is just like any other Steem interface that is free to iterate content discovery specific to their platform.
Not overlooking the fact that Steemit.com still remains the top steem interface, however, there is a non-zero chance that this will change. Some people like the UI of busy.org or UX of steempeak and so will not get this featured post show up on their feed.
I do agree that @steem.marketing needs to be careful with what posts gets featured and as you said, "not to overdo it"
It might be a good opportunity for long term Steemers (2+ years) that provide content, but are just not good at networking an opportunity to get noticed.
You make some good points however, and Steem Marketing might want to establish some criteria to be featured (Steem longevity, number of posts/comments, the always subjective issue of quality of posting, reputation, or anything else that might make the Featured process beneficial to the community)
It is now a backwards but just a feature as a innovation to me. I think steemit need innovation and will be on the move soon.
google has the top 5 or 10 links 'featured' ... to them that means paid for ... they seem to be doing allright, i heard they got this thing called xrp they got something to do with and no one makes a sound but when Faceberg says i want one the whole E.U. is upside down :D ...
perception ... there's a need to make money or they can't hold out on selling forever .. a rich kid like that dan-dude can run 20 nodes from the spare change at the end of the day but a company like steemit has wages, fees, taxes, licenses and what not and they didnt even get to the point where they're big enough to be noticed by the ravenous mastodon the E.U. is ... china doesnt seem to have blocked them yet ... everybody wants a piece when there's enough zero's but my current worry is more like : who's gonna develop if emperor Steemit goes belly up ?
how many nodes out of how many are needed to take it all over ? what's the guarantee the most recent hero dan-something doesnt wake up one day on a bad hairday and decides to put that million on auto-negative and move on to other shores ... steemcleaners would have a field-day countering it and have nothing left to fight the holy war on content ... the price is under 13 cents at 1/3 of a billion rolling, what if there's 4 times that just like DOGE, will it be 1/50th ... why doesn't anyone ever consider the dangers downvoting represents, no one considers removing it for one second ... no one considers capping the supply or the fact that
you can NOT downvote someone's bitcoin
and they seem to be doing well
hate to be mister half-empty with the glass and all that but i feel a serious lack of realism and i would still like to see this thing succeed ...
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who's gonna pick up development if steemit can't hold it (it IS a potential and growing realistic scenario, its not like you control the global market, the last dip showed that very clear and i have serious doubts about the powerups not coming from 'stale' liquid steem as the price doesnt budge up one iota so it doesnt feel like anybody's buying)
i really like the fact that there was a failsafe that prevented the billions-disaster on the last crash, it shows aptitude and the potential to foresight so where are the failsafes for all that
if anything it's okay if i'm the party-pooper but id say when someone calls a bomb-alert you need to be ready to evacuate and i hope some of the upper echelon here are not trying to hype for a pump-n-dump exit scam
i know, but im used to it
it doesn't pay to be the realist ...
(i TRY not to react but im having one of those days ...) bursting bubbles ? no, just one of those days .. featured & featured ... no compassion in the marketplace ... it needs money to surive and the only way to battle hyperinflation with burning and downvotes will be to increase the burning and downvotes ... ???!???
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nevermind ...
so use partiko or another interface.