Quality is such a touchy subject because it’s a subjective thought. People say they want to see good content but everybody has a different opinion on what good content is. That’s subjective and out right judge mental to vote this type of way. People don’t even realize they are being subjective when they say things like “the content has to be good”. First of all, who are you to say that the content has to be good?? Why do you think you can choose good content? You’re the good content chooser now?? Who made you think like that? Is that a forced opinion that steem has been dragging along?? most of us are NOT journalist so if “content has to be good” needs to meet these standards then most of us should t be getting votes. I like the idea that you vote who you know but then again is that the right way to go about using your upvote? Especially when new people are signing up everyday? Idk ... nobody needs to be subjected to someone’s opinion especially because they just been around long ...none of this makes sense to do. As a producer/artist we learn that creation is part of the process but not the whole process.. the artistry comes after the creation but if I were to critique someone’s beats it would be subjective the same way. Who am I to say the beat is wack?? Nobody is in a position to say that content is good or bad and that shouldn’t be the way you use your upvote. Maybe find a different less subjective way to use it
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Wow, it's almost as if you didn't actually read my post. I never talked about "good" content. I am a musician and I am aware that quality is subjective. That is why I specifically avoided the words: "good, bad, or quality".
Instead, I very specifically chose the word: "effort".
Someone taking a picture from google or pixabay and having that be the ONLY thing in their post is a low effort post....period. If you don't agree, then feel free to use your own stake to upvote content like that.
I also have a section in this post that specifically talks about how I feel that intricate blogs are not necessary and how my belief is that type of expectation would prevent mass adoption...so I have no idea why you are bringing up being a journalist as part of my "standards".
Next, I never said that I would ONLY be upvoting people that I know. And "knowing" them is not the only requirement. However, this is a Community token so yes, I will be rewarding people who are part of the community.....which is my right to do as it is MY stake. Just as it is your right to do whatever you want with your stake.
It is interesting to note that your comment talks about how it is wrong to be judgemental, yet here you are judging me...quite unfairly.
It has been my goal to help new users and creative steemians since I have joined Steem. For almost 2 years I have run 2 creative contests per week and I also do a weekly music curation. I also run 2 contests a week on Steem Monsters for art, music, and fiction. I started the @msp-music account to help musicians and artists. And I also donate to Open Mic every week.
During the bull run I was giving away 80 Steem per week to creative steemians. I changed that to 40 Steem a week during the bear market, and now I'm giving away Palcoin. I am also now manually curating with Pal every night. I could just vote a bunch of people that I know using an auto voter.....but I'm not doing that. So don't come here on my post and talk to me like I'm not helping people.
This wasn’t a personal attack so forgive me if u are in your feelings or whatever. yeah I read your post but the title stuck out to me the most which is someone explaining their curation process. In my history of social media I never seen anybody explain why they like a post on twitter or their “process” but on steem I see posts like this all the time. Your post just happen to be the next one I saw and spoke on but I am generally speaking because there are probably other so called “curators” that may see these comments. For anyone to have to explain their process is only because there is money involved. This is the very reason why steem won’t be a social media site until people realize that curation should be done effortlessly ...and curating that is sometimes the opposite of what you’re looking for. A simple post that moves you can get an upvote I don’t see why it wouldn’t... a pic from “google images” , you would have to investigate to find out which in my history of social media people don’t care about the source of the image in that particular way, they don’t validate a share, post before they like it. People are taking this curation thing too seriously, especially those that have more steem power than the norm. I’m glad you saw some of my points and I thought we could come to some type of agree...not the opposite. I’m not here to kiss ass for upvotes neither should anybody. That’s great that you upvote musicians and all that and speaking about what you do and how you contribute helps me understand what is lacking even more so thank you for that.
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