Personally, I don't have any guidelines if I vote on my own accord. I even vote for trollish stuff and also make them myself lol. So the situation now is that whales don't have all the time in the world to look after posts. Whales delegate power to guild. Guild has to set guidelines and help the whale distribute the votes. Or else the whale will vote alone, and will most definitely cover much less grounds. So instead of one whale dictating what is quality content, at least the guilds have more than 1 brain dictating content to be upvoted.
So i'm not sure if your argument applies at all. It's the complete opposite, in a way.
IS there some aspect to reading posts that im not aware of that makes it more time consuming that one would expect. Granted, im a fast reader, but even a krnel post only takes me about 3 minutes to read. typical post -- like 30 seconds. So you guys have like 10 people working allegedly 10 hours a day to do what? 700 man hours a week to read something like 3k posts. thats like 15 minutes a post. i could translate them in to japanese faster than that.
I think brian is opposed to the guilds.
get it
LOL got it
Definitely wouldn't take 15 minutes per post. I'd say around 30 - 300 seconds per post that seems to be something worth supporting. (but this is Curie, there are more checks per account or post reviewed). We've made it a pretty loose routine for Curie with not much of a shift for any members anymore, especially with its open-participation model these days. Perhaps the 10 hours in SG is more like a standby period for each shift.
I can't see why that is needed now that posts remain open for voting a minimum of 24 hours. A few hours each day at any convenient time is enough to consider every single post.
^this
Or why anyone would consider $20 an hour a reasonable rate for someone to be on standby to read steemit.
So basically, $20 an hour to be on your computer or phone and take a look at new posts from authors you follow as they come out.
Isn't this supposed to be the appeal of steemit? Its draw? If the task of reading the best authors on steemit is so ardorous that it requires that level of compensation, doesn't that spell trouble for the platform?
Because the new users youre trying to recruit -- you know the community and all that that you talked about in your recent post-- you seem to want them to be willing to do something you (in SG) are not -- read steemit for free, because its enjoyable. Unless youre offering that $20 an hour to everyone?