Desperate people I do not like to be part of our community I must say, also the greedy ones.
Why do you think people will stop posting every 15 minutes? It is quite easy (not for me since I'm not a developer), to create a bot that takes your photo catalogue and start posting a couple of photos per post every lets say 15 minutes. Then go out in the street and recruit 20 new members, let them get an account on Steemit and also connect a bot to their accounts and at the same time let all these accounts vote for each other. Even if you can create 10 quality posts a day, why would you publish them every day? In the end no follower will like to see the same author that many times a day, even when the posts are damn good. I would even think 1 or 2 posts a day should be the maximum and that shall be enforced by the system. We had a maximum of 4 posts per day, but that limit is taken away completely.
For sure the increase of vote power has no purpose IMHO, and shall be rolled back for sure.
I'm not well versed on the use of bots. I grasp the concept but not having the money to dump into the system and spam my way to the top, I've more or less ignored them. I'd like to think that I wouldn't do that even if I did have the resources.
I'm intrigued by the chance to earn & keep the fruits of my own labor. I've watched other people reap the lion's share most of my adult life. Those people also determined what I would spend my hours, days, weeks and years working on. It may wear off at some point but sometimes I need to get things out of my head and onto a page so they're not swirling around in there. The noise keeps my wife awake.
And an upvote or a really good comment that sparks a discussion is still exciting for me.
I'm not sure how to keep the platform open enough to allow people to express themselves and still keep the quality high enough to sustain Steemit.
I think your post is a good start on the way to finding a workable solution though.
LOL
I dont think these things are related. Any opinion can be voiced in a quality way, and any discussion can be going in a quality way. I personally like the big differences of opinions members of the community have. In general, that is one of the key things why I like Steemit and want to take extra steps to make sure the community will survive. I can only learn from other opinions.
Me too.
And my wife has turned to me when we got into bed and said, "You're thinking about Steemit aren't you?"
I'm not sure if she can actually hear it or not, but she's been right every time.
Please say
to her!
Thank you, I will.
Maybe that will get her to start, I've created an account for her.