I don't understand the aversion to a post simply because it's resteemed whatsoever. I read resteems all the time, especially if the resteemer is an account I respect as I can assume they must have seen value in the post and would simply like more people to be aware of it..
The issue as I see it is we definitely need to be able to add our spins to a resteem, otherwise it's a bit one dimensional. But just inherently dismissing a post someone wants to share on a social media platform is highly illogical in my mind as is the current lack of incentive to share others work..
If we have more than a few hundred accounts producing high quality content and new users onboarding daily I'd venture to say not changing the resteem culture would be yet another missed opportunity to have a semi decent social media outlet.
If I'm correct piotr isn't a fan of resteeming simply because he prefers to memo people to give exposure which personally I don't mind but many do.
The entire premise that familiarity and cozy social circles are fostered here is questionable and a direct result of the litany of failings steem has catered to that has made content discovery and decent posts to find next to impossible here. I scroll on by more stuff here than any other social media because gaming, speculation,bugs on leaves, actifit, etc are not generally what I care to see. The exception of course is if I know someone enough to care about their daily life stuff, like you, I'll upvote and engage a post of yours about dogs because I know and like you more than most people here. If you resteem a post about someone's dog's I'm more likely to also vote, engage, and make a new friend. If it's just some random person talking about their pets it's unlikely they'll get one of my coveted 10 semi worthwhile daily upvotes and I'll definitely not resteem their post. If I see a random resteem of the same post with a well written intro telling me this is not the average pet post I'll also click it.
That's how we can grow and I don't think we need to code this into steem, it's behavioural and a community can encourage this with a token and option for authors to donate their rewards to resteemers.. I'm going to give some of this post to Asher as his value gave my post value because well, people like him and they probably don't like me so it was worth a look.. Lo n behold it's an idea that got over 50 comments too, and not just the usual, good post man platitudes..
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