Quality Content is the worst part of the white paper, the voiced goals and the whale voting I have ever seen. Nobody gives a shit about quality content.
If you think I am wrong. Watch the "new" thread for a while. Watch the quality content.... Scroll on by, with no attention.
I give a shit about quality content.
Do you vote for it though? I know I do, but I also vote for what is popular.... so I think I am a part of the problem.
The biggest challenge is finding these quality posts in the 'new' feed. :) My current ratio is 20:1.
Downside: Time-consuming --- Upside: Better Content in Steemit in the near future! :D
My rules:
Flag for content that seemed to be made by a bot (or run through Google Translate!)
Mute for Authors who post in Languages I cannot understand
Mute authors who share content I'm not likely to engage in
Comment on posts or engage in comments. :) Well...if I have something of value to offer.
There are a lot of things everyone can do about this. And from what I see there are more amd more ideas about changing that. Now, they need to be seen and spread too. So it is something to consider. You have a rep and followers. You writr cool stuff. You also read cool stuff.
Link to the cool stuff you see, that didn't gain traction in the first hours. That way you effectively sharing your power in form of followers & rep with people you find are providing the quality content.
I agree! Don't forget that you have readers for content outside of Steemit! :) You can bring them here..or build them on another platform then eventually bring them here.
I'm in the process of reaching out to my contacts to pitch them the upsides of joining Steemit. I use this post to make it easier for them to get their head around what the platform is all about. :D
We are in uncharted territory right now. Whether or not "quality" content is being ignored or upvoted is a) an entirely subjective assessment, and b) impossible to plan against since, literally, no one really knows what will happen next since its all theoretical at this point.
All that can be done is to keep moving as an ecosystem towards expelling destructive developments from the platform while rewarding constructive developments. Even this is wholly subjective since plenty of people can argue about what will be good for the long term interests of the platform.
Even if 51% constructive is rewarded and 49% destructive is rewarded, its still a net gain and better than the alternative.
Just keep building. Keep creating. Keep voicing opinion. This ball has already started rolling down the hill. It's pretty well out of the control of onesies and twosies at this point and organic changes will only get slower as we move ahead.
I really do care.