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Switching from insta for me has been an experience. I still find steemit like old twitter. Real people with real views. And real conversation for the most part. Because of the built in incentive. Shit comments like "nice" just don't cut it....and I think people will figure it out quickly. That said, I think the platform still has room to grow - and interface wise they could build in measures to stop the most egregious behaviours.

It can be hard to maintain quality as it scales up. We want millions on here, but that will mean more spam. I educate new users where I can

Herding the new lambs. Good man.

Personally I don't think that comments like "nice" are bad in and of themselves if they are sincere. Vocalizing that you like something shouldn't be frowned upon. That it's mostly done by people who haven't even read a single article they've said the comments on is a different story.

We won't see an end to behavior that is transparent income-seeking until we see an end to global wealth inequality.

It's hard to have an honest "like" response here. The upvote is so valuable, and crafting a quick comment that doesn't sound like it was spoken in Troll is pretty tough.

I think those "nice" comments are people trying to emulate that honest "like" response.

I know that I have had trouble with language here on simple comments to try to avoid sounding like I was an auto-comment troll.

That everything has a potential economic consequence directly attached to it does muddle things a bit as far as intentions go. I'd often like to just drop a "this was really nice" as opposed to "this was nice" but either will probably be dismissed all the same.