Resteems are a useful feature, but sometimes posters go too far with them
The ability to resteem someone else's content is a valuable feature of Steemit that allows whales to broadcast minnow content far and wide. It also allows a person to broadcast content that they find especially meaningful, posts that resonate deeply with them enough to have it permanently on their own blog.
However, there is one aspect of resteeming that I absolutely cannot stand, and it is when someone resteems a TON of material all at once, effectively dominating my feed with whatever they resteemed.
I've now made it a rule that if a poster's resteems end up taking up my entire feed, I unfollow them. I do not want to have to constantly scroll past all of a person's resteems in order to get to the people I actually want to follow.
There is a value in resteeming but it should not be abused
Again, I think resteeming can be a great way to curate content and share valuable posts with a wider audience. I have discovered many new posters that I now follow as a result of someone resteeming their content.
I resteem content occasionally, especially if I know the person in real life and am trying to help welcome them to the platform. I also will resteem content that resonates deeply with me
But this feature should not be overused, as it can effectively dominate what content shows up in your feed. Perhaps Steem could limit resteems to 5 per day or something along those lines.
What are your thoughts on resteeming?
On a related note, I've removed the resteem request from my signature. If you feel inspired to resteem, please do so, but I will no longer explicitly ask for it
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When we follow someone, we follow him because we want to see his/her articles, not tons of resteems.
Although resteems are definitely a great addition to the platform when used appropriately, as you pointed out, I have a rule to unfollow people who make more resteems than their own articles.
Agreed! When I see someone's blog dominated by other people's content, no matter how good it is it makes me disinterested in them. I pour my heart into my content and am really glad any time I get resteemed, but if someone is on here to just repeat things others say as a way to speak for themselves it totally turns me off. This whole website is still in beta test so hopefully the creators are seeing this and making proper adjustments for the official launch(date, anybody?) And unfortunately this is one relatively small problem compared to the huge abuses going on that I am just scratching the surface on. Again when I spend hours of my time and soul to produce a piece I am proud of and then I see utter garbage and nonsense raking in cash it is discouraging to say the least. Hopefully my circles will continue to grow and create value and get rewarded and recognized. Just gotta keep steeming ahead!
Regarding what posts make money, there are still quite a few kinks that need to be ironed out with how the rewards pool is distributed.
I've used voting bots in certain circumstances, but some people are outright abusing the privilege and corrupting the quality of content that's on the trending page. I'm hoping that the release of SMT's and communities feature will reduce this part of the platform. In terms of when a full release will occur...that's a great question. I'm wondering if they should be concerned about an EOS social networking competitor and if that will push them to go full steem ahead with a more concerted push.
Absolutely loved that we can talk about it here safely without the worry of trolls. Good posts do tend to go viral when resteemed but again has to be in a lot mit and the content has to matter in the first place.