As a student who develops bots for Steemit I deeply believe in the long term value of Steem. However, Steemit may be doomed to fail...
We haven't seen much development on Steemit in the last months and the content quality in Hot or Trending is at an all time low. Most social media sites have a "recommended" page that accurately suggests good content.
But we do not have any other way of finding new content besides Hot or Trending. A lot of top ranking witnesses run their own bid based voting bots and therefore I think we can agree that these bots won't disappear over night....
The only other option to find good content is to develop a "recommended" page and I'm almost certain that that will happen. With better content this new site will quickly replace Steemit especially for new users who are just here for reading good content and not for earning money.
Please point out any flaws in my theory!
I agree with you that it needs a way better system of recommendation and a way for us to search for content. What you said that you create bots, I'm intrigued, in what schools did you go and are still going and where did you learn to, I expect, code?
I'm in the 11th class of a regular high school in Germany and I have learned coding myself.
That is great, the educaton system in my coutry is a bit diferent with the classes. Im 16 and im going to 2 gradeof gymanzium(non specialized high school). Were you using some tutorials on Youytube or online coures?
I watched a few tutorials but I learned the most by trail and error just coding and the searching for the solution on stack overflow :D Although I have never bought a tutorial I'm currently doing a 5 months computer science learning guide by Siraj Raval:
I hope to perfect my abilities and broaden my skill set.
Thank and good luck!!!
We have a great way to let the community bring the great quality to the top at the @promo-steem account using our @steem-ambassador programme. This is model is currently being applied to posts that promote steem.but there is no reason we could not apply this model to multiple other movements. Essentially part of the role of the Steem Ambassadors is as oracles who manually check the highest quality promo work for the steem blockchain
Agreed @starkerz ! This model of the @steem-ambassador can be applied for other things in the blockchain! Everytime focused on adding value to the blockchain!
Here is an idea I came up with about an hour ago to unify the campaign for delegation on all promoter posts. Your thoughts on this are greatly appreciated.
Idea for the Promo-Steem Website - Lets have a Page Explaining How to Delegate to @Steem-Ambassador and Reasons - with the Markdown already done - For Promoters to copy and paste at the end of Posts
What content reaches the top shouldn't be controlled by the minority of large bots / stakeholders no matter what program they run!
Just a fronted. Busy.org is better. Once it has market, Im using it all the time.
yeah, busy has some really unique features like the notifications
I think what is foreseeable is people suggesting the same things implemented by sites like Facebook. And in the end, it will be Facebook if such feelings take over a constitutional view of the concept. Look at groups, algorithm suggestions, fair socialistic distribution, etc- people want Facebook with dividends.
That said, why not just buy stock in Facebook?
because Facebook would never pay you money for posting...
I don't think that's a bad thing because Facebook has many superior features and every day users won't switch until we can offer the same level of comfort.
However, Facebook and all other social media sites were flawed from the beginning! They are designed to keep you on their site because they earn their money through advertisements or data. Steem is designed differently.