I think posting rate should be related to your reputation. I you've been really flagged then you can maybe do one a day to try and recover. New users (at 25) would be allowed to do a few, maybe 6 a day until they build up a little. This would be an issue for bots unless people really like what they do.
I'll be interested to see how a Twitter mode could work alongside the longer posts. I don't necessarily want my feed flooded with one-liners. I used to use Twitter, but I rarely visit now.
I think there's an audience for everything, might be interesting for some people.
Reputation is a vanity metric. Its usage on Steemit is purely frontend based (it hides the posts from the site, but they are visible on the blockchain). I think something more alongside the bandwidth algorithm already in place would be more suitable.
That's interesting. So the 5 minute limit is at the blockchain level, and would then affect busy.org, chainbb etc
I think reputation is more than that as it can be driven down if people think you are behaving badly. We want to protect the users from the bad apples. I'm sure the team have considered various options for this.
I really like this one, @steevc.
Works on a lot of levels.
If a level 30 knows he only has one post a day, he's going to make it a good one.
Edit: looks like it wouldn't work though.
I'm just throwing ideas out there. I'm sure cleverer people have considered this.
My thoughts exactly. A couple of the suggestions I've made,
The guys who built this place are incredible, so I don't mind hearing 'no', but it's nice to know the idea's had a fair hearing.
Edit: Funny, I was just reading back through the minimum rep post, and I notice you've commented :)
Such heavily restricted comment capabilities would have driven me from the platform. Commenting is essentially the only way to stretch out on this platform out of the gate.
I suppose author gating options might be good but it was the opportunity to engage higher level users that guided me quickest on here.
Reputation isn't a perfect system. Downvoting organizations seem to be one self policing component here on Steemit. I think that better mentoring/scaffolding for new user onboarding would be valuable. But I do think it is beneficial that there are mechanisms to spin people out of view for bad behavior/poor content.
I addressed those concerns in the article.
Ah, yeah - didn't realize you had even linked articles in that previous response. Couldn't make out a color change on my screen at the time.
The minimum rep piece has good theoretical ideas, structures some interesting components in terms of buffering on the upper levels. Still though, without a better tutorial or even partnership from well established accounts, I think the proper usage/retention rate is going to be an issue on the new user side.
I guess I'd like to see more investment from Steemit to the new user base because I am a member of that group. There's definitely been positive change in the 3 weeks I've been dabbling with the network but I also understand how some people get turned off in the early phases.
Yes I've seen minimal response too.
I guess not responding to questions and suggestions from the hoi poloi is a deliberate part of beta testing.
I think we need to stop thinking of ourselves as customers, with a list of requirements...
or I'll take my business elsewhere
...and more as lab rats sniffing out a lump of cheese.
If I'm getting paid, then steemit is the customer and I'm the service provider.