RE: Last Night I Dreamt About Steemit — 10 Suggestions To Make the Platform Grow
Great to see some positive thoughts here. I am going to start typing you a reply AS I read as each section may or may not warrant some attention.
The SCROLL LOCK idea. I like this other than a couple of things. Steemit is just one window into the blockchain. Bots and such simply use command line calls or direct API links to vote. This will increase the advantage they already have. This might help force the whales that actually use steemit.com as their method to vote have to read what they vote for. This could also have the side effect of making it so people start mostly voting for simple and shallow articles that the scroll lock disables quickly on. So while I see this as a good and interesting idea I believe the cons out weight the pros for this one.
Steemit help.... I've made articles tagged tutorial steemithelp help faq and howto several times. I know some other people have used some of these tags.
Comment engagement - this will give me an unfair advantage, I am very long winded. Some people cannot write as well as others, yet they are still part of the community. Some people do more videos than text for this reason, some do not. I like having an advantage, but I don't think this would be particularly good for the platform as a whole. It would be good for people like you and I though. :p
Cash Out lock - something like that might be useful. It is one of those things it is beta... test it out... if it does not work then remove it. I like the idea of it keeping those initial winners locked into the system.
Pool Allocation rewards - I prefer the 2nd payout at 30 days. It gives people a chance to see articles from weeks before, and say GEE I like this. This has happened to a number of my posts. Mostly small amounts, but I do believe being at 48 hours is way too fast for the 2nd payout. If you wanted to try 2 or 3 weeks instead of a 30 days that'd be worth trying but I actually am fine with the 30 days. (keep people locked for 2nd cash out :) )
Promotional Sponsorship of Whales - while I'd like it, this essentially becomes a tax on them. I am not a fan of involuntary schemes applied to people. I doubt this one will go anywhere both Dan and Ned are Austrian economists, and I know Dan is an Anarcho-Capitalist, so I seriously doubt any idea that is essentially redistributionist in nature will happen here.
Direct Conversion of USD or YUAN or other currencies would be nice and I could see having a fee for that. I've written a guide to help people get to and use their money for whatever they want, but it does have steps that need to be learned. 10% fee to avoid such steps might be something a lot of people were fine with. This would require partnership with one or more exchanges willing to do this.
Cash Out Fee - Not needed I think since powering down already takes 104 months. This is another fee designed more in the what's subjectively deemed fair/not fair so I seriously doubt Ned and Dan would implement something like this.
Milestone Goals - redistribution again. Not likely to happen. Also the arbitrary 50-60 value for reputation to receive the rewards. It is not difficult to hit that range, and if you keep posting even if you don't receive much for your posts you will eventually be above that range. So why use the reputation system to fuel this? Why the arbitrary range... (I realize you just could have been picking a range purely as an example)
Navigation - improvements - I agree completely. Also try checking out the site on a 4K monitor 66% of the screen is white space. It could be redesigned to take advantage of screen real estate.
@dwinblood
Thank you for your detailed response. I appreciate it. I actually watched some of your videos. They helped me a lot.
I had no idea about the scroll function. Like I said, I am not a technical person. Maybe something else can be employed. Engagement is a serious issue in Steemit.
The tags could fall under the howtosteemit. All I am saying is for the section to be visible there. You can't imagine how much different it is for a noob to actually click and search about something. People want their food chewed in their mouth. It is silly but my experience tells me it applies.
Comments can be videos as well. I believe everyone can compose a line or two of text. I mean we are in a blog forum. If one cannot do this, then I don't know what else to say.
I am an an-cap myself. I just see this movement as an initial investement. Like I said. "Make Steem Grow". I don't think it should apply in the future. The power should be redistributed somehow.
As for cash out I meant Steem Dollars. It will be an incentive to actually power up instead of cashing out.
Regarding the milestone goals. If people get on the 50 or 60 range means they are engaging and posting here and there. This is good. The money not used from the curation rewards of whales could go to them. This is another incentive for whales to vote more. Again. They are the controllers of the game. Obviously they have to see whether it benefits them on the longrun. These suggestions are just initial steps for Steemit to grow. Not final solutions.
I also mentioned your 50-60 as I am actually at 62 but I don't make a lot. I have started doing better in the last week. I do think I am going to do better. I did have one post make over $300 in July. I've had a few recently make $100 or more.... The vast majority of my posts have been less than $0.20 or maybe even $0.00 going back far enough. I don't think I need wealth redistributed to me I think steem power already does that. Which is one of the reasons I like steem power and sometimes intentionally power up. That is investing and increasing my part of the profit sharing that does exist.
The reputation system though I don't believe that should be in anyway tied to the payout structure. It'd be too easy to game in good and bad ways.
Oh... also you've read my articles. I only ever made one video on here. :) It turns out my articles are my strong suit. I doubt I'll make many videos but I won't say never as I bet occasionally I find a reason to make one.
Also just in case you didn't realize it. I was not commenting to attack you. I appreciate what you are trying to do and am mostly playing devil's advocate for your ideas. :)