The blockchain records every transaction and is immutable and the Steem chain holds all the text and edits but one thing it doesn't hold, is how we feel about it all. We can see the ebbs and flows from a content level but it is much harder to gauge what is happening at an emotional level, how are people affected emotionally by content or the prices when they are up or down?
Hivemind update, the coming soon community features that have been on the cards for a 'while'.Last month, @steemitblog posted a
When they suggested some features that would be possible, the very first one on the list was Reactions. This is something that I think is going to be a lot like the useless ones on Facebook but, I wonder what it would look like if we could actually get a picture of how people react to various items here, situations, comments and information. What would it look like compared to the other data points?
Accuracy of self-reported actions would be somewhat dubious however I think in time, it might be possible that people actually start reacting somewhat along the lines of how they actually feel. Perhaps through a serious of weighted emojis it would be possible to scrape the chain to reveal the mood of the entire hive and then get more granular.
alternate trending page the other day where he scrapped together the top performers that had the word "interesting" in the comments section. This is an interesting way to discover posts but not available easily. What would be discovered if there was an emotion-based trending page where it was sorted by reaction types? Would it be interesting also?@abh12345 simulated an
Of course, it sounds pretty gameable however, that is not the concern of this particular post. The current tagging system is limited and doesn't have a lot of utility for discovery unless using obscure tags. However, what happens if it is also combined with some kind of reactive score, perhaps even one that has a weighted reaction similar to stake.
For example, what if content that is reacted upon builds up some kind of emotional reputation score that give a weighted rating of trust in reaction. Kind of like having a trusted movie reviewer who you feel makes good decisions on movies. Those that react early on content that then goes on to get similar reactions from others builds an emotion trust score.
This wouldn't even need to be visible to have an affect as content could be pushed and pulled without anyone knowing who has a high score or not, including the people themselves. Of course, it is the blockchain so it would be possible to see however, hypothetically. This is just one idea that an interface might use to sort data and combined with whether stake also backed up the reaction, it would be much more accurate than something like imdb where popular gets votes, often without even seeing the movie.
Another interesting thing that is going to be somewhat visible is how various communities interact and the feelings they create upon the platform. There are going to be some that create a lot of positive reactions and others negative. this doesn't mean negative is actually harmful as it depends on the content itself. After all, a lot of happy reactions to a case of child abuse is likely to indicate something else entirely. This would also be another interesting metric to see the variation in groups voting on and reacting to similar content as it will give a more accurate read out if diverse groups felt similarly about the same article. This could be used to provide a confidence level rating.
Even more granular than groups though is the possibility to see individuals not only shift in their own reactions but, observe how they influence the system. See how their content and comments shift peoples emotional state and potentially, be able to track the emotional reactions to spin-off articles also. Possible through something like that over time, we could actually see who is a community builder and who isn't as the data could potentially show if it leads to positive growth, negative retraction or nothing.
I wonder if we were able to observe the knock-on effects of trending articles and bidbot voted content whether we would see them leading to positive growth. The reactive metric would be able to see what kinds of immediate effects an article has on the next few votes or, the next posted content.
For many, these kinds of reactions will seem useless but if utilized well, they could become a vital part of categorizing content and evaluating things like who gets delegations to build the community or who is overly rewarded for what affects they have on the community itself with a fair amount of confidence if this is combined with other factors like Reputation and voting weight as well as their own reaction trust scores.
I am not a technical person but the coming hardfork is meant to make it much easier to pull data from the blockchain and if used in combination with all of the community tools on offer in Hivemind, it could fundamentally change our view of Steem and the relationships within the system. Positive and Negative relationships. Not only will it change our view, it will give the world insight into what the other social platform have been doing for years already, priming us to pull more of our attention.
The more I think about just the factors possible with reactions, the more bullish I become about a bright Steem future. I am not only hoping that the smart people who pull the data can uncover a lot, but developers can get much more clever and start using these tools to maximize engagement and growth on the platform to facilitate a healthier community.
What other things do you see as possible with Hivemind?
I think this has a lot of potential.
Being able to 'react' on content without actually affecting the payout I guess is done via the comments at present, but as my recent post/codedive suggests (Thanks for the mention!), this is much trickier to evaluate.
Perhaps a Captcha would be useful here too?
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These aint bad at all...i could get used to them
Might as well chuck the link in for everyone eh:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitguide/ultimate-guide-and-cheat-sheet-for-smiley-and-icon-s-make-use-to-thousands-of-emoticons-recgonized-by-steemit-s-raw-html-editor
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I have never seen that before. it works in titles too right?
Yes I think so.
And, as in the post, if you use the # then you can resize them too.
I think it has legs and a great deal of use-case with the right interfaces and decent scrapes. I think you guys are going to have fun with hivemind and HF20 and I hope the app developers will start getting much more creative.
Yeah for sure. Lots more data will be coming, which means we'll all have plenty to look at and assess - keeps me in a 'job' for a bit longer!
A "Butterfly Effect" gage, that would be kind of cool to see in the future. So and so posted this, and their post had this effect, which in turn led to this post which had this effect.
Social Butterfly Effect, I like it.
Not sure how effective this would be. I haven't followed the progress of this project and hearing it for the first time about it from you. Thanks for that.
It would really be interesting see what the real reactions are (organic if you please) from the community. When I first joined steemit I naively cam to the conclusion that upvotes reflect to feelings of the community and started browsing the trending page to see what people liked on steemit.
Mind you that I had little no social media experience before steemit (my stupid and arrogant assumption was that social media is for loosers with too much time). It took me some time to realize that stuff on trending page was not stupid - most of it was actually fake.
After that kind of dropped the whole idea of trying to gage the mood of the community and started to trudge along with other small fries to learn by experience.
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I think there are versatile uses that are going to get discovered through these things. might change the look of it all quite a lot.
I think if the reaction feature is added it will make lots of sense because you will get to know people mindsets on different situations.
yep, and if utilised well, will improve accuracy for evaluative purposes a great deal also.
That's really true. Thanks for the upvote.
A very fine metric to analyse each user accounts with respect to their engagement and contribution to the community growth
I think it will be of help in shaping the future of steemians. Actually there is nothing to measure one's emotion which deal it how we comment.
People reaction on a giving post should be compare the best good for the bot to actually look up to but I don't think that can ever happen or what do you think sir?
A nice idea, we can use your daily publications on this subject, to be certain to make the right decision.....
this has a lot of potential.
That's pretty cool to know thanks for the tips by the way :)
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I think any change to get away from where the system is now would be positive. The platform needs to grow and bring the community closer together (maybe impossible). Lots of experimentation needs to happen in order to get the balance right. lots of good posts are slipping through un noticed and somehow they need to be highlighted. I must admit I don't visit the trending page as I have once or twice and find it slightly over rated. If there was a rule that a trending post is not allowed to feature any bots I would like to see what the difference would be.
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Whenever there is a publication - there is a chance that many hidden gems will be hidden.
It is a good idea to keep changing the trending section -or atleast give an option to readers. So if someone wants to go in deep down of content, they can go.
So I feel an option to choose a style of trending section will be beneficial in the future.
Fingers crossed.
I like the idea. Anything that promotes engagement on a platform such as this can be a good thing. It would just be sad if people would start using the emotion icons instead of actually contributing meaningful commentary.