There's a lot of 'circle jerks' and other stuff going on here, but some good content is getting good rewards. My personal policy is to try and give bigger votes to things that took more effort. So a comic that may have taken days or weeks to draw will often get more than a five minute blog post. This is not a hard rule.
I'd love to see someone build a Stackoverflow equivalent on here. It shouldn't be too hard as the tags can categorise the questions and we have a voting system to get the best answers up. Of course this can be abused in the same ways, but it would be a great way for people with the right knowledge to earn. I know some put a lot of time in Stackoverflow just for the badges.
Steem/Steemit is just a platform. It's up to us what we do with it.
I think a paid StackOverflow could become a full time job for the right technical people answering questions. I might have to try and develop it myself.
I’m not familiar with StackOverflow myself, but there are several Q&A style Steem front ends in development as possible starting points, such as https://musing.io
I didn't know about that one, thanks. It looks promising. Really we need StackExchange to introduce a crypto since all the infrastructure and user base is already established. That would rock.
They’d be a perfect candidate for something like a Smart Media Token when they launch. No need to run a blockchain of your own when you can build on top of one of the existing chain projects like Steem! Even pre SMT some sites (BeScouted.com is probably my best example) are integrating Steem into their existing infrastructure.
A lot of the Steem sites are open source, so you may find something you can base it on. It's quite possible there's already something being worked on. Maybe on @utopian.tasks
I've followed that account, thanks. I'll have a ready through those as I find the concept of the Steemit crypto fascinating. It just needs the right vehicle.
I've delegated you some extra SP so your vote can have a bit more impact. Enjoy!
wow, thanks Steve. That is incredibly generous
You join a not particularly exclusive club who I've supported like this. It helps to spread the votes out. Enjoy
STEEM Blockchain / protocol can be used for all kinds of applications. Steemit is just one example. No platform is perfect.
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It's just my experience Steve that I get pressured to upvote friends posts and I am told it is the way to get noticed and get ahead.
I may be different to others in that I usually write blog posts because I enjoy writing them. I don't need to be paid for them, but I quite like getting some engagement for them via comments and discussion. I spent quite a while on Tumblr before using Steemit.
I think the views of someone like yourself with a high SP will be different from minnows such as myself. I don't really get many votes and the ones I have are small. I want to reserve them for content that matters to me. There are quality posts on here, but I have to look really hard to find them. The system isn't surfacing them to me.
Your votes won't have a huge effect so you may as well use it as you like. Nobody is really missing out if they don't get it. What you can contribute are your comments. Some of us are really into the conversation.
My vote is not huge, but I use it to support the content I think needs more exposure. I also re-steem to my followers, but I don't always see that make much difference. The fact is that Steemit is pretty small. You may not get a lot of random visitors, so you have to get out there.
Thanks for the advice and support on my posture. I will resist external pressures and only vote on content I feel needs to be seen by others.