Hm. What about this: Since steemit is basically built on a platform of the reward system, which is how it's making a name for itself; what if instead of finding ways to chastise people for improper tag use we find a way to reward them for keeping within their tags, or using less tags?
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I'm very new to this site, just over a week and a half, so I can tell you that there is not a lot of incentive at this point to make a new tag. I know, I tried, and it was sucked into a vortex. Those with a lot of followers can do this and gain momentum, but definitely not newbies. So perhaps another form of reward or maybe just recognition for new tags? A contest for who creates the best new tags...just throwing things out there.
That's a good suggestion also. I don't like chastizing either. The carrot is probably better here than the stick.
Yes, I'd say it's more true now than it was when I wrote it. Ever since the hardfork people already feel a bit less enthusiastic, the energy is lower in reaction to steempower having so much less effect. Of course that's true of any big changes made in a system until people become accustomed to it. I'm in the position to be more objective since I'm just beginning here and therefore I have a lot less risk involved than many...at this point anyway. I was initially thinking of buying bitcoin and turning it into steem then powering up until I'd built up a decent cache, but these changes are giving me pause. I will continue contributing content and building that way, powering up what I have because I do believe this place has the potential to be monumental. But I feel I have a bit more observing to do before investing money in addition to the time and energy I'm putting in. And I'm not really talking about my content as far as the time I put in, that's never a waste in my opinion, even if it all turned out to be one grand exercise. But making connections, reading and commenting on people's pages, joining projects, these things take a great deal of effort in the beginning-I'm not complaining, I love the challenge- however I definitely don't think it's the time to further discourage people by penalizing them. It may be the perfect time to discuss changes we want to see though and how to make them happen. Just my opinion.