re: last part
Well, I was just questioning what criteria there might be for dApps to get major delegation from the Steemit controlled misterdelegation or even ned himself. I personally haven't seen much rhyme or reason to it, other than, hey, it's another dApp! Let's fund it! (It helps to smile and make a thumbs up when you say that last part.)
I know it's easy to criticize from the peanut gallery, but I was in business for myself for 15 years. Even without that experience, most of us would say a brand new company or organization should have something going for it before they partner up with an established, fully functioning business, even one as young as STEEM/it, no matter how desperate they are for players.
After DLive, while I'm not upset as most, I think there's a bar that needs to be raised retroactively. You stick with us for a certain period of time, you meet certain user requirements, some standard level of quality, some level of growth (meaning you power up your account) and you can't jump ship. You can open up to other blockchains, but you can't just leave. Unless you shut down.
I agree with taskmaster4450 more than I don't, and I always find his posts relevant and interesting. I like his cheerleading for STEEM. He makes good points.
I probably would have worded the post about the quality issue a little differently, though. There's no need to encourage substandard posts, even for the sake of a minnow uprising. That turns off the long time users who might have some SP and actually vote for the increased posting, and I would hope it would make at least some of the minnows and red fish take pause.
There is such a thing as value setting. We all do it, and that becomes the line we won't cross. I need some words. It doesn't have to be 1,000, but at least 400 would be nice. A photo with attribution that isn't google search or something like that. If it's English, it would be nice to be grammatically correct, spelled and punctuated, but if it's interesting, compelling, timely, thought provoking, I can live with all lower case, all ran together. If it's none of those things, along with being incoherent, forget it.
Plus, I didn't think the idea was to make STEEM into another social media wasteland, but raise the bar. Take it back to the golden age of blogging at least a bit, before anyone anywhere could just simply start sharing the same mindless meme over and over again.
If it were me (and I might even make a post myself) I would say make sure it's original content, shoot for the best you can make, but do it in as little time as possible. Two hour limit, max. I've been breaking my own rule the last few days and I've got nothing out of it so far. it's worth the time to come up with good content to build the audience. It's not worth the time to put out your best stuff that's going to take longer until you have the audience.
People might disagree with me on both ends of the spectrum, but I think there's a point called good enough, and that's where you start.
And besides. There hasn't been a focus on quality since I got here. Lip service, flags, yes. Focus? No. The flaggers tend to pump out the worst drivel, just because they can get away with it. Cult of personality over quality. Lord of the Flies.