RE: A better way then 50/50 reward splits and downvotes

[ozphil]

The issue is to keep people
If people see the shit on trending and nothing interesting they will not be interested in powering up.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You "Gold" might be other people's "Sh*t". It depends what people are interested in.

At the moment - Trending etc covers too broad a range of topics. We need a way to narrow the focus to what that particular person is interested in - which is what I tried to achieve in "Drive visitors deeper into Steemit"

If they see lots of info they are interested in - then they are much more likely to keep using the site and eventually power up.

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[ozphil]

we already have tags, which are extremely visible and accessible and intuitive

We do have tags - but Steemit could do a better job of driving people deeper into the site.

Many people might use it for years before they decide to join, and even then it's predicated by why they join, was it because of some members only area, did they want to leave a comment, etc.. To get people interested in powering up they must see good content,

On this we agree.

I simply believe:

• we are better off trying to get more people to the site - knowing only a percentage will power up
• once they are there, we can do a better job exposing content to them THEY value and are more likely to want to interact with and so join and power up
• acknowledge good content has a life of more than 7 days

Note my suggestions are focused on the content - not shifting the chairs around on the titanic by tweaking reward percentages or free downvotes.

[ozphil]

Seriously.

You say you want people to power up.

Then you abuse those of us that do.