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RE: I'm not mad... I'm just disappointed.
You averaged over 200 upvotes on each of these posts. Are you 'disappointed' that it was just lowly minnows like myself?
You averaged over 200 upvotes on each of these posts. Are you 'disappointed' that it was just lowly minnows like myself?
I'm actually very grateful for the high number of upvotes from everyone but disappointed that it didn't get trending and attach any larger fish. I'm very much for the minnows and you've needed more then you think. Just right now even with a very high number and rate of upvoting from minnows this didn't get this trending... maybe something to think about.
The trending window is just way too small because of the loads of crap people are posting trying to make a quick buck. I think that when I find a more permanent place to camp that I'm going to attempt to start a movement to use the open source code to make a similar platform that actually has the intention of making the world a better place.
The first thing that will need to happen is removing "anyone can make fast easy money" from the equation. Maybe a user will need to get a minimum level of upvotes and verify themselves and their projects before being able to receive money. Maybe the currency will be setup to only be used within the network, banning it from being sold for fiat or other alt coins, essentially creating a merit based sharing economy within the network.
The second idea to increase the amount of exposure to posts is to instigate a site wide post timer where the site can only take one post every 15 minutes. This wouldn't work for the pyramid scheme side of things but since gambling isn't the motivation, I don't think it would be an issue. This way, each user will have some chance of getting through the majority of posts in a day without having to spend hours scrolling through crap.
The other thing I'd want to implement would be a better tagging system, something that sorts tags into categories and limits posts to only a few tags, preventing the tag abuse that's ruined the chances of finding anything good on steemit.
I saw the potential for this platform in the beginning and realized that with the power that the whales have, if they stuck to their make the word a better place crap, that steemit really could have made a dent but as soon as I started participating, the problems with that idea became glaringly obvious. Their wish to grow the platform by any means just diluted the pool to the point that it's too nasty for me to keep attempting to swim in.
Solid points! I'm on my phone now so later on I will give you a better response
Building treehouse now. Want to hear more later.