I don't like it.
High reputation means you have done well on the site.
What we actually need to do is help the little fish.
There are only a few key things steemit must accomplish:
A) attract the best content
B) attract all the people
C) retain all the people
A + B works.
C) is the problem. You can see that while we have new users coming in, the activity on steem has been stagnant. This shows we have a retention problem.
So anything we do must be about keeping people engaged with the site.
I have seen many people get excited, only to be disappointed after posting much and getting nothing, only seeing others make 10s of thousand.
I don't see how having folks that make much anyway allow to post more, helps with this issue.
This sounds more like an issue of UX and visibility.
I was just thinking that there is a A LOT of real-estate on the sides of the screen here. Why not a floating point link of
Other posts from this author:and/orPeople who liked this article also liked:.There is plenty of great content that goes by unnoticed, I recognize this. The voting patterns will change with time because the valuation of Steem + new whales + demographic changes.
I agree that the UI is not optimal. However i think it is more fundamental than that.
I do believe that steemit has done well of providing a comprehensively good product. the UI is not perfect and can be improved. What you outlined makes a lot of sense.
However fundamentally, i think we need to find a way to rewards regular folks more. It seem like too much is going to too few people. The rewards do not need to be huge but there needs to reward so people have incentive to leave Facebook for steem. Instead the little guys can stay on Facebook, collect their likes and be happy.
The UI is definitely the problem. Most people blog with no payouts or expectations of rewards if the UI is good enough. Look at Reddit? No one is getting paid. Look at Facebook? No one getting paid, but they blog.
Then look at WoW where people pay money into the system just because it's fun.
Well, at the end of the day, you don't get anything for posting on Facebook or Twitter or wherever. That isn't being done anywhere else, at least with this scaling potential. So at least that can act as a foundation.
We're in totally uncharted territory.
Thanks for the valuable discussion :)
Yes. Thank you for kicking it off. I love this place. And I love the energy that goes into improving it.
This will be a fun ride.
I agree, it's the curation system that needs fixing to support retention. All we have now are die-hards, not Joe-soaps, and Joe-soaps need serious utility, not ideology or additional rewards for the die-hards.
For this we need a new tag system: https://steemit.com/steemit/@manipulable/proposal-make-tags-useful-in-steemit-or-copy-linkedin
A few weeks ago the same people were complaining how it wasn't fair that a makeup tutorial made $20,000 and now people are complaining Steem is only for diehards? People are going to complain but if Steem is fun for most people it can work.
The same people were complaining about those two instances? Because if not your post is mute.
If Steem is only for die-hard Steemers then it's not interesting to the vast majority and can't compete with Facebook or Reddit or anything.
The feature set must be developed for greater niche curation.
Not exactly the same people but as a figure of speech, it's groups of people who complain one way or the other about who is winning on Steem at a particular time. First there were people complaining about travel blogs rewarding ordinary people and now we have the blowback reaction. Now people complain about not enough ordinary people.
I agree!
I see a lot of good articles with 20 or 30 upvotes making only $0.02 or so. If a whale hasn't voted the author isn't making much. These authors might get disappointed and leave. According to steemwhales.com the top 1% hold 91% of all Steem Power. I think this is a problem.
Yes thisnis exactly what inhave experienced. Ie i recruited @surfermarly who post great content daily on facebook and has hundreds of likes everybday there. Over here she wrote some articles and put decent effort into it, but never got any traction, so now she is less active. These are the people we need to retain better.
Great dialog we are having here. Thank you for posting this @blackmiles84
Why doesn't she just repost her Facebook content? It's her fault for not putting in effort. Why blame the system if she's not posting on Steemit but will post on Facebook for free?