I think a "vote buying service" that checks for quality of post before voting could potentially be an option. It could just mean that you're paying to get your post read (and probably critiqued) instead of just paying to vote.
This is something I've been thinking a little about and I was more than amused to see it as the first thing when I logged back in.
That would be a paradox. Whether I pay for position or I'm rewarded for quality.
If quality was the key driver, there wouldn't be any need to buy the attention.
There have actually been a few people selling their eyes on people's posts. They ask for a small amount of SBD and in return, they will read the person's post. If they like it, they'll upvote, if not, they won't. I can understand wanting a service like that, because it's really hard to get noticed in the constant stream of crap on New feed. I don't think many look at that page much anymore... I still think it's a bit dodgy though, but atleast it's better than all of the vote buying going on. I've tried it in the past, but it just doesn't feel fair. Now, most of my posts gain between $2 or $3, but atleast they are genuine upvotes from people who mostly read my posts and comment aswell.
It just kind of sucks to know people can boost themselves to Hot or Trending like that while the people who want to play fair get left behind, because they get drowned out. Oh well, it's as you say, that's part of the deal with no censorship!
Of course, it's hard to get noticed. That's why such services are successfully evolving. There's a huge demand on steemit!
If we want to get a high standard of quality back, we will also have to talk to those who use these services, especially users that have high stakes and actually don't need to buy votes. Minnows technically can't boost themselves to the trending page since they're unable to invest so much. It's established users who take advantage of the services and buy a trending position. THAT's the true tragedy :-)
That, I can wholeheartedly agree with! :-)
I believe that we need to improve the onboarding, produce more tutorial videos for newbies, give them support, tips, explain how everything works. It's as if you were hired to work at a new position but nobody explains you what to do.
Everything starts with education.
I'm new, so I might get tired of it, but I use the "New" tab pretty regularly. In some ways it's better than the "Hot" or "Trending" tabs. Both of those tabs are full of articles about bitcoin. I like reading those a bit, but I think it's obvious they're there because that's the kind of content the large investors enjoy. The New tab allows me a chance to find a few cool things that there's likely little to any chance I would see otherwise.
Of course, there are also a lot low quality posts, but there's also a different type of low quality posts on the other tabs.
You're right about that! I actually used the New tab a lot when I was new too. Eventually though, most of us gather a list of people we follow and that means spending a lot of time in your followers list to keep up with everything they put out. I've actually had to clean up my list of people I follow a couple of times already, because even keeping up with that sometimes feels like such a chore.
Sometimes (not often) I do visit the New tab, but I always make sure to select an interesting tag to filter it :-)
I do understand the angle you're coming from, and I personally do not use these services but an argument could be made that, considering the increase in number of daily posts, it has become increasingly difficult to get noticed organically hence the "paying to get the attention".
The question is: do we want attention that is bought? Or do we attention that is earned? :-)
GOOD QUESTION! :)
Why we need to looking for attention i things is more base in help ,honestly and information
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