Can you re-Steem too much?I just read this post by @steevc:
And it made me consider how I use Steemit and also how it might be improved when it comes to resharing.
Resharing is a basic part of most social networks (I do not really know of any that does not have the feature) - I wrote about it in this post: About the importance of reshares and the problem with reshares. - In general I see reshares as something good, the only incetive you have to reshare a post on most networks is that it is interesting. In this way it plays into the Steemit project of creating a high quality bloggging and social media platform.
But reshares can be anoying both the resharer himself and to the people that will have posts in their feeed that they did not ask for.
Two buttons could maybe help:
Toogle reshares on/of for the profile - you will be able to mute all reshares from this profile
Toogle reshares on/off on the profile page
They could also just be one button, but I think that the more possibilities you have the better.
That would be a nice feature. Some users you follow because they are great curators, others you follow because of their own original content.
Exactly... The Blockchain is just a big public database - It would be great to be able to make some better queries.
Should I share this? I'm conflicted :) Being able to filter out the shares would be a start
You better don't :)
But I actually think this is part of a much larger problem. On the Diaspora/Friendica federation the same things happens and they have a 6 years headstart on Steemit. The user is responsible for gathering the content of the feed and everything is then simply placed in the feed based on the time it was posted. There is no algorithm that tries to filter and manipulate, which is a good thing. But with too few tools it is inevitable that the feed will get to big and difficult to overview. I once proposed a way you could make more feeds in Diaspora. It was never really taken serious - the small developer team had more than enough to do with just making the federation work.
But I might dust it off and propose it here - all the same things applies really.
Good idea. I get tired of seeing my feed cluttered with reshares.
That might be true, but I also think that new input is important and reshares do that. This way you could remove boring resharers like miself and keep the ones that actually find interesting things.
That's an awesome idea.
I'm pretty sure the technology is possible. @ats-david mentioned the same type of filtering mechanism in his post about advertising on Steemit.
The blockchain is basically a database so it would just be to use the right query. As for speed and cpu-load I don't know any of that.
We need this! I only want to see content that I actually like.
I dont show the two buttons in my blog option
No it is a proposal I made on how it could be done.
Good idea, please like in my post please
Wow. Thank for sharing :D