To many people are joining Steem in the hope of making a quick buck, when I first joined I did the exact same thing, started posting in the hopes to make some money. But now that I've been on here a few days I realise that isn't what Steem is about.
What is Steem about?
Steem is about blogging, content, topics, the money that comes with it is just a bonus an incentive and should be seen that way. but with so many people just trying to make money quick off Steem instead we have thousands of spammed blogs and not much discussion happening in the blogs themselves.
There needs to be more of a limitation to posting or better filtering system, so when I go through a topic I can quickly find good content instead of the 100's of bad content. Floods of bad content make it hard for the good content to stand out and this really needs to change. Sites like Reddit work because there isn't an incentive, people post when they actually have something worthy of posting usually.
THE SOLUTION
There are many solutions to this problem.
1. Make it new members can only reply to blogs for the first 30 days.
2. Users need 100Steem power before being able to post blogs.
3. New members can only post a max of 1 blog every 24 hours until they have 50 Steem power.
My point is there are solutions and I think a system needs to be implemented sooner then later
IMO this is an example of a good post because it sparks a discussion.
I don't agree with solutions that put limits on new users, especially when we want to see the userbase grow. I think a better change to steemit would involve changing the curation incentives, but I really don't know how...
I think the posts that make the front page stay there for too long.
the follow system will take care of it...
We need a better filtering system for sure. Steemit is a better technology under the hood than Reddit but it's also newer and the UI/UX team isn't as experienced. More people working on the UI/UX and front end will help and Steemit has the money to hire these people.
@drinkzya I got nothing against you for flagging my post if you disagree but I would love to hear your input and your opinion. This post isn't suppose to be offending to the community but just start a discussion.
partial, you are right, but you introduce to difficult rights for new members, its very hard to get 1 Steem power, but 50 !!
Maybe 50 is a bit high but I'd rather have more discussion happening in the blogs then more blogs.
there's probably more blogs then replies to blogs at the moment.
sooner than later.
also, look for content that has been upvoted.
the cool thing I think you're overlooking is that the filtering system is awesome, people are incentivized to find great content and upvote it in hopes of curation rewards. You don't get paid on reddit for upvoting things that are going to become popular.
Haha sorry I still get confused with my Then's and than's.
I Agree the filtering system works but there's still just to many blogs posted that I find it hard to find content I'm interested in.
I also am not sure if I like the idea of being rewarded for upvoting, I like the idea of upvoting something because I like it not because I think it's going to reward me. Users will just go around upvoting content they aren't even interested in but think might do well and just follow the crowd with up voting
Reddit is a mature community that has had time to grow, adjust, and settle in.
Steemit is just a baby in comparison. Give it time, and it will overcome its challenges.
IMO, the biggest challenge we have right now is not the amount of posts or the relatively low quality of content overall, it's simply the amount of content duplication we're seeing (which adds no additional value and increases the amount of content that one needs to sift through dramatically).
I see tons of duplicative material posted, some days after the original. If you try to post a link on reddit, it will check and warn you if it's already been posted. Steemit doesn't have this kind of system yet -- but it should.
100% agreed, after the hard Fork there were HEAPS of blogs posted saying it was a success some probably even now being posted.
There's an unfortunate fact here that getting that 50 steem power could take forever if someone with high steem power doesn't notice you. And as of right now it seems the most noticed posts are also extremely formulaic things.
Camping, half naked women, weed, posts praising steemit, these are the things that get thousands of dollars and lots of steem power.
Is there a maximum for blogs per day right now?