The real problem lies in: People post for rewards not because they are interested in posting it.
There are thousands of posts about how to earn more money on your posts, but rarely I see that anyone posts how to increase the quality of your post.
Unless people stop posting for money and start posting because they love what they have created and think rewards as an added bonus, there will be a problem here.
Just an opinion though, what do you think?
This is definitely a factor, but I don't know how to easily disincentivize it.
It depends on people's morale. The more people with good morale in power are here, the easier it will be.
how to make good posts is just good writing and good music playing and good film making and good investigative reporting etc. no way to teach that easily.
there is some pretty gang-oriented upvote patterns i've noticed that give me the idea that something else is afoot...i have been investigating some patterns i have seen in some of these popup news sites that don't look legit to me. I get into it on my blog. Then my latest is about steem itself. Curious what you'd think.
I know my content is quality, just every avenue there is to post is over run with bots, spammers, or accounts that try to troll. I think maybe 2 people have responded about the ideas of my post in comments, the rest of the responses i have to wonder who that person really is.
Your opinion is valid, maybe if you'd vote for a post on a quality measurement and not a quantity measurement this could solve it.
"Excellent, Great, Average, under average, poor". (Or a similar well thought scale). And the rewards would be calculated after the 7 days following the grades of the post.
Its not even about quantity if a content is good and has value. But if you upvote post or comment that only says "hi steemit" and you earn money thats just stupid and people will abuse the fact
Quality measurement would require quality people to measure it.
I think that for most honest people it's a combination of both. You can post about something that you're truly passionate about, but at the end of the day, you'd also want to earn something with it.
Personally, I like posting about stuff from my day to day life, it doesn't earn that much, but it's fun to do so. On the other hand, I'll also post stuff that I think might do a bit better than the usual day-to-day stuff, because it's fun to see your work being appreciated.
Full disclosure: I use Minnowbooster on some of my posts and usually I only use it once for less than 1$.
There is nothing wrong with promoting your content if you are into that, people do that on google facebook, etc. Point is wrong content gets promoted more and for wrong reasons.
Admittance is good.
Quality is indeed not rewarded as much as quantity via votes and the system is made in such a way to promote that
I think if steemit can grow and overcome this then it will be truly an awesome platform as there is a lot of good content on here but sometimes people need to use bots to gain visibility as everyone is using bots to promote shit content. It's a shame as I have never used a bot and don't want to but can see a valid reason for doing so hopefully we can just get rid of them and have a more level playing field.
Hmmmm... yeah we don't use abusing language on platform.. it get wrong impacts on others...
Simple truth.