There is a lot to what you say. Steem has the potential to be a real community driven platform where even the little guy can gain value from contributing just by commenting intelligently on other posts.
Question is what moving parts need to be put in place to make it realise it's socially inclusive potential ? App are a part of that for sure but also a sort to Steamiquette needs to be in place where we can have a standard we can adhere too.
Oh and something else that is a personal bugbear of mine. Steemit search SUCKS. It is extremely hard to narrow down on communities and find common interests the way it is set up now. Tag alone are not good enough and we need a way of searching by content and not just titles.
Just my fourpenny worth.
@veritanuda @steevc have you guys tried steemlookup.com? it's @curie's post discovery tool and in my opinion one of the best ways to "search" steem.
I hadn't seen that. Looks very comprehensive. I have used the eSteem search to find some of my old posts. Good search is vital. The Steem tags can be a bit hit or miss.
Thanks for that but seriously, a third party site is the best was to search steem kinda says it all. Don't get me wrong, it is better than nothing but it rather misses the point, no?
hey @veritanuda, tell that to @steemit, @ned, @elipowell and everyone else
The naked truth is that Steem is a blockchain and there are myriads of front ends to access it. All of them are "third party" in one way or another.
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Hehe.. props for the name call. And yeah I get they are relying on 3rd party developers to expose the blockchain as it is but really their needs to be at least some guidelines.
I have already talked about trying to work on the copy of a blockchain myself to see if I can run some heuristic filters through it to pull the gems from the dross.
At least it can be done which is more than say you can with Facebook so...
Have you seen the eSteem search? I find it much better than the Steemit one.
thanks for the tip @steevc, now this is really useful.
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