I think that if we had more data that wasn't only rewards-based it would help such as post views and time read. That way you have other metrics of success other than getting stake weighted people to vote on your posts.
Perhaps you wrote a post and a whole lot of minnows enjoyed it you get 10 cent upvote but 100 people read it, that way you know it still has value and will encourage people to create regardless of the number in the bottom corner
Also provides a better incentive to burn tokens to advertise like here on peaked if I know burning one hive gets me 100 views people are more likely to do it
I would LOVE to have “post views” and “shares” counters 😱
Oh yes forgot about that, share counter too that way you can see which authors are bringing valuable traffic to hive sites and I think that should be rewarded for sure
Am I wrong? I could have sworn that there was a post view count on Steemit that was removed at some point.
Yes you are correct it was part of the orginal front end I think they said it wasn’t accurate that’s why they removed it
Thanks. Being new at the time, I used to check it since I rarely got any engagement on my posts back then. It was an indication that at least someone saw the post, which was good in helping me to keep blogging.
I felt the same way lol my first 50 posts on here got $0.00 and I at least held on to the views and comments that weren’t bots! I get some views on medium too but very little comments if ever