I agree.
One advantage FB has is the ability to control what you see. If I have a friend whose posts I don't want to see, I can unfollow them without unfriending them. A friend/page/group whose posts I want to see at the top of my feed? Then I just click "See first".
I think the noise of valueless posts will decrease as the people writing them without getting upvotes realize that it is not worth their time. Personally I follow very few people and spend more time going deep in the comments of articles like this one which bring up points I'm very interested in.
I presume you'll follow me then. :D
haha. Now, I believe Steemit can go down the route of Facebook, which will eventually make it a copycat. Then again, what constitutes value differ largely from person to person. Furthermore, our diverse interests in various subjects depend on our mood swings.
I see a lot of people saying we should write "valuable" posts. What exactly is high-quality value post is extremely hard to define. I guess at the end, quality = time and effort put into each post.
I think a high value post can be defined in two main ways:
If you're seriously lacking in either of those it's going to be extremely hard to create a high value post.
Totally. And we have to combat our inner desire to see that quick upvote on every post that we published.
It's sort of like the marshmallow experiment here. :D