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RE: Reducing friction for critical mass adoption of steemit

in #steem8 years ago

+1 for your 5K-steem-donation initiative to help accelerate mass adoption. However I caution over-emphasizing the $$ rewards for a post. Many reddit users I know of are idealists and they believe in the pure value of their posts' content. Imagine a bot that says “This post is estimated to have earned earn $1.45 on steemit” and these users know what a bot can post and there is a way to manipulate the trending of the post. The outcome may turn out to be opposite of what we intended.

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I concur. Payouts should be a bonus not a prime motive.

This is worth discussing as it appears contradictory to the only message on the steemit.com landing page:

Steemit is a social media platform where everyone gets paid for creating and curating content.

What is the prime motive for anyone to use steemit, if it's not to get rewarded for what they already do for free?

I understand that the quality of the content could be higher that normal because of rewards, but I'd been interested to hear what you see as a prime motive for why would communities would adopt. It may help sharpen the core messaging.

people do have to live though

Agreed in part. Redditors would be less offended if they found out virally, or stumbled across a site that displayed the possible value of their posts based on some modelling analysis. The bot would offend, even if it was allowed.

Maybe this is where this adoption initiative could head - sponsor a scientific analysis of the possible monetory value of social content, using reddit data and steemit's payout mechanism. All 1.7B reddit public comments are available for download reddit archive torrent for this type of data analysis.

"A scientific research/analysis of possible ways to rewards monetarily to reddit content contributors." sounds good. I think this could be a good attempt for Steem. I would like to be part of this effort.