I'm conflicted about this - featuring posts and bypassing the stake-weighted voting system feels like a step backwards for #newsteem.
- Why hold SP and attempt to trend when you can just contact Steemit Inc and be featured instead ?
- Is there a cost to be featured ?
- Are you thoroughly investigating new projects that ask to be featured - so we don't have (seemingly) "officially endorsed" featured posts for the next dlive or SBI ponzi scheme pinned ?
- Do you now consider the featured posts function as another form of advertising to be sold ?
Featuring the occasional network-wide status update, or major development/fork news is one thing.. Opening it up to whoever asks nicely is another. Please don't overdo this.
I agree, at least make part of the requirement to burn a certain quantity of STEEM for it.
This is not only an excellent way to return value to Steem but also to reduce the number of dumb/spammy applications which then take time to evaluate, just the delegation committee is doing. The same method is also used by SPS.
i also agree with you too.
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hey but for real ima buy some ads soon and give some tokens to steemians. i will actually burn at least 1 steem when i buy my ads to set a good example :)
I'm fine with this. Steemit.com is just like any other Steem interface that is free to iterate content discovery specific to their platform.
Not overlooking the fact that Steemit.com still remains the top steem interface, however, there is a non-zero chance that this will change. Some people like the UI of busy.org or UX of steempeak and so will not get this featured post show up on their feed.
I do agree that @steem.marketing needs to be careful with what posts gets featured and as you said, "not to overdo it"
It might be a good opportunity for long term Steemers (2+ years) that provide content, but are just not good at networking an opportunity to get noticed.
You make some good points however, and Steem Marketing might want to establish some criteria to be featured (Steem longevity, number of posts/comments, the always subjective issue of quality of posting, reputation, or anything else that might make the Featured process beneficial to the community)
It is now a backwards but just a feature as a innovation to me. I think steemit need innovation and will be on the move soon.
so use partiko or another interface.