stopped encouraging the F'U style posts inciting action against other authors, unless such posts are "Decline Payout" posts (such as this one)
Agree, except: I don't think we need F'U style posts at all, nor posts inciting action against other authors. We have a voting system, and if you don't like someone's work you can either vote for different work or downvote it. Attacks, trolling, F'Us, etc. have no positive role to play here.
And if, for whatever, reason you do see the need to go on these witch hunts, at least make sure to get the facts right, which probably should include actually communicating with the author getting the other side of the story before making accusatory and inflammatory posts about your concerns (if that had been done here, the entire false allegation about lack of permission and copyright infringement could at a minimum have been entirely avoided, and the lack of understanding of how an older photo of someone, who is now an adult, came to be used would also have been cleared up).
@smooth I agree, but im not really a believer in downvoting , if I don't like a post I just move on I don't downvote or make a stink.
if I would bring 4000 new users which are chicken lovers, would you like to see on trending only content about chickens? Do you think that would be good selling point to any potential new investors or users which are not a chicken lovers?
Downvoting is an only way to rebalance content, to actually make it more appealing for average user which is not yet on the platform.
Right now on the platform are mostly crypto-currencies enthusiasts. Bitcoin (price) was and still is risky, so you can easily assume, that most of people on steemit really like risk and everything associated with that... like betting.
I as investor do want to have this platform only for people which like betting. Betting popularity contest is even worse, its not even fair, because it can be manipulated by voters.
That's why from now on, I will flag every post which will buy votes.
and I am not afraid being threatened by steemsports anymore.
Absolutely yes! (It would not literally only be chickens any more than it is only Steemsports or has ever been only anything.)
The Trending page is statistical summary of the unpaid posts with the highest stake-weighted voting. Nothing more. If the community grows rapidly (4000 active users would likely grow it by a factor of five or so), then whereever the growth (and interests of the user base, as well as potential growth) is greatest should and likely will dominate Trending. I don't care if that is sports or chickens or pizzagate or boobies.
Trending is not an Editor's Picks page or a page that shows the variety of all topics that are being discussed on the site regardless of popularity. You're looking for a different page (that may not currently exist)
What is important is not what is on Trending, nor that Trending is a featureless blob of all sorts of posts that are approved by @noisy. What is important is that it can, and does, change and adapt to the shifting interests of the, hopefully growing, user base and stakeholders.
I thought this too but I was corrected. The popularity contests were not judged by the voting. They were judged by an external poll.
rize chikun!
HAHAHA
So what?
People really lack perspective on this. Does anyone really think there is a correct answer to "Who is the Steemiest?" That cheating and manipulating the answer to that question is a matter of great importance?
It is a silly game with a low barrier to entry where the primary function of it is to provide some entertaining content and act as a faucet and distribute a bit of rewards to a lot of people. Which it will certainly do regardless of whether the poll is tampered with or not.
Also, let's say hypothetically people really cared about "Who is the Steemist?" Are you sure you would be the only one manipulating the poll? What happens when one @halo fan manipulates it one way and another @denvermax fan manipulates it the other way? And how are voters supposed to know which manipulation will prevail? But I digress, since again the result of the poll doesn't matter much.
I certainly would prefer that to the F'U approach. No disagreement there!
Wow, contacting someone personally before blasting them?
What era do you live in @smooth?
(Joking- I'm just pointing out that that should always be the preferred method of attempting to "right a wrong" or "fix a perceived problem."
Agreed, we and the founders of our project are very open to communication.
That's the way to be!
Great comment! Thank you!