On the Hot Page on SCORUM. Getting nice feedback. I check Steemit's trending page, and it is bidbot hell.
Yo! I'm on the Hot Page on SCORUM! Getting nice feedback. Very cool.
Come back to Steemit and see my new post has two comments! Yay!
Oh. Nevermind. They're copy pasted spam. This is disappointing, but to be expected, right? Spam happens on every platform. Especially those with incentives. Maybe I'll go check the trending page. Surely there is some good stuff there.
I check Steemit's trending page, and it is bidbot hell. Spammy posts upvoted by bidbots. Every. Single. One.
Damn. I wonder why people are leaving. Well. No. No, I don't. This is why they are leaving.
Hanging around to see if SMTs might help a bit. Definitely not holding my breath, though.
Instead of just constantly airing grievances, though, perhaps I should provide a little background, at least. I've been here on the platform since July, 2016. This platform has literally changed my life. Not exaggeration. Not hyperbole. I never...never thought I'd see the day when I could be paid to write and create online, or even offline, really.
Steemit changed all that. Sure, there was a lot of self-referential Steemit cheerleading, and a whole lot of hype. And why wouldn't there be. Everyone else was excited as I was. There were unique people here. Suddenly, talented bloggers and writers that were not really recognized before became "Steemit celebrities" of a sort, and their talents were finally being rewarded.
Somewhere along the line though, it became less about making an impression, and more about making a buck. Don't get me wrong. I signed up to make a lot of bucks. Hell yeah. But I thought I could make them because of my skills as a writer. Not in spite of them.
What do I think the problem is?
That's a tough one. I don't want centralized regulation. Fuck that. I want total freedom. So it's not that I think more rules need to be in place. Here is my hipshot estimation:
1. The devs are so busy on backend shit that the platform looks like shit and very few changes/notifications/upgrades are made
Heck, after over two years you still can't see everyone that voted on your post via a simple click on the platform. Also, the site just goes offline for hours at a time with no notifications on the landing page, etc. There is also still no way to group those one follows for easy curation. Who the hell knows what is going on. But it's okay! We got a new sea foam green logo and a "night mode" button!
2. The protocol/design does not empower individual communities and content creators as much as it makes pyramid-shaped, top-down power differential abuse inevitable.
See the trending page for evidence of this. It's a goddamn nightmare. This was not intentional on the part of Steemit, Inc./Steemit.com, in my view. Just an unhappy lesson to learn, maybe. Since there are really no protocol level mechanisms by which users can take control of funds for the sake of creating and curating communities in customizable ways, it simply becomes: "whoever has the most money at the top of the pyramid can do whatever they want, to whomever they want." There are no protocol-level, community borders, barriers, or walls. Of course if one brings more value to a stake-weighted voting platform than others, that one should have more power. However, in my view, this influence should not be so unchecked as to potentiate the devastation of unrelated communities and accounts via "flag nuking."
Finally, one positive note. The market is reacting to these signals and problems, and competition with protocols set to answer some of Steemit's shortcomings are popping up all over now. If Steemit fails, it will still have been a successful experiment in free market action. If it succeeds, which I feel like it still can and will, that will be a big free market win, and require some changes be made, I think. SMTs should be here "soon," and then we shall see, hey?
~KafkA
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SMT's to the rescue!
I hope lol
Have you checked out Whaleshares? I'm not doing too bad over there considering I hardly ever post anything.
What’s Whaleshares?
https://whaleshares.io
Something you want to avoid like the plague.
Why’s that?
It’s kind of like Steem/Steemit...
But with an even shittier “face” of the project, shittier “devs,” and shittier token distribution.
Is that even possible? 🤪
I thought it was just some kind of club that passed tokens issued from Bitshares around to each other. Now they’re taking a leap and making their own platform?
What are you spending your time on these days?
where should i begin! :P
I found steemit approximately at December 2016 but i was a bit afraid and had no clue of what this is about especially when it said " sing up and earn money for free" so 2 months later during February 2017 i joined.
As you probably know the accounts were only a few, especially the ones that posted each day and also the most members looked for something different that will change their lives and devoted themselves to that.
So the first months when the price was 0,07$ it was the best time for me, as the engagement was at high peak, there was constructive criticism and everyone was trying to help one another. Especially the welcoming of new members was amazing.
Later on that the price increased a lot of abusers came (not that wasn't a thing from before but it was escalated). The fact that dev team didn't do what needed to be done in many aspects frustrates me.
I made a post yesterday related to that but i won't put a link here, if you want you can check it in my profile. The basis is that the interface is very old and not helpful right now, a reward strategy for the older posts is nowhere so basically it's like our posts after a period of time don't worth shit and the majority of us don't actually manually searches for new content and awesome people!
For instance in order to find you i scrolled quite a lot in new page, opened over 30-40 windows and out of them only 2 were quality posts so the interface doesn't really help even in manual curation. All in All i try my best each day although i think that my posts deserve way more than this (if someone else posted them, a whale perhaps could generate 10-20 times the amount i do) but i have some people that i follow and follow me back that we somehow made a relation and it's addicting to me everyday to check their posts or their comments!
Boi, you bout to get down voted like a motherfucker.
Got a referral link for scorum? What's their native token?
I don't see steem as pessimistically as you do, but I wasn't here in the beginning.
Lol. Another thing that has been a buzzkill here. Folks be gettin’ like radical Islam defending Allah when it comes to questioning the site! ;)
I realize I come off as pessimistic, but dude. Go check out the trending page. If I didn’t care about Steem I wouldn’t even be talking about it.
I’m not sure if there are referral links or not. I’ll check. Native token is SCR.
Nah man. Trending page is shit, I don't go there lol Haejin and Bernie taught me that lesson.
I just follow tags and keywords with @ginabot.
Where's SCR trading? Would a dude posting a daily chicken picture do alright there?
I need to get hooked up on this @ginabot thing. @finnian seems to really like it.
Not sure where SCR is trading now. It’s all sports-based, so maybe....”chicken racing”? or something. “Competitive chicken raising”?
There has to be some connection. Some guy was writing about the “wife carrying championships” a couple weeks ago.
He's the one that turned me on to it. You're already on discord, so it'll be no big deal.
Who won the wife carrying championship? And how far did he go?
Things here are certainly problematic, but most of your criticisms can be changed on the front end level without the need to develop a new chain. There are people working on solving these I just wish there were more :)
Anyways competition is always healthy and I hope to see a few good alternatives. So far all I have seen are less decentralised as steem which is why i stick around here for now and deal with the terrible frontend
For sure. The chain is great. The lack of action, updates, etc, not so much.
You’re right though. I fucking hate centralized control, and at least Steemit wins there. Pretty wild west here still, and that’s nice.
I think Steemit is at a point where it’s a one trick pony. It’s like a grade school love story. For those who join, it’s infatuation. For those who stick around, it’s a fight to hold onto your first love as reality and delusion set in.
I’m trying to figure out how all of these Dapps are going to fit in and change the current system. I think Steemit.com might just become a garbage heap for Dapp posts that nobody ever checks in one or two years. We’ll see.
That’s an interesting prediction, and you may well be right. It makes sense. The chain would go on, and this site itself might just become a kind of catch-all.
I haven’t used Partiko yet, but I imagine all these apps will just get better and better and they will find ways to filter out various posts so that the user experience becomes much better. It seems to be a game that’s up for the app developers to decide and for us dinosaur first users to try to keep up with.
Be encouraged. Steemit has topped a dollar for the first time in many weeks. This should bring back the actual bloggers for a while. It's tragic that the bot-infestation destroys a person's work getting an actual look.
Best regards.
Peace.
In my view, the actual bloggers are the ones who continue even when the price drops. But yeah, not discouraged so much as trying to take an honest look at things.
Yes, the bot thing has rendered the place pretty spammy.
Lol....rhymes with second letter c...lol....
Anyhoo...I have a confession. After posting I learned that my most recent post has been botted onto the record books. That said, I am grateful to those who have donated me onto the world of bots. They know I'm anti-bots, so in their generosity put me on the lists.
So, long story short @kafkanarchy84, my question remains, where would Steemit be without bots? I guess more than obliteration, I'd like to call for a little more accountability in creation.
That said, this song's been sung since I joined a year ago. I have to admit it would have been nice to receive an acknowledgment of a year of service with Steemit...nothing superfluous...just one of those accomplishment badges would have sufficed...lol...
Maybe that's one for the suggestion box. When getting a little fatigued by the bots, it ALWAYS helps to consider the social media alternatives with ZERO ROI in time and energy.
Best regards.
Peace.
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