RE: Bloomberg Interview for Steemit and Steem

[surfermarly]

Great exposure and very well done @ned!

I wonder why she explicitely touched the bad quality of the content. Was this something you mentioned by yourself during the talks in Korea? It's actually not correct. Some bad quality pieces are currently overvalued through an excessive use of bid bots. So first that doesn't concern the content of the whole platform and second it's nothing we couldn't fix. This is rather a content structur problem than a quality problem... Maybe that's what you can tell them the next time when you're asked about quality issues which we actually don't have :-)

Now hopefully the wave of new users - brought through media attention - will come after HF 20 :-)

Comments

[nicolelang]

Well said, man! My thoughts exactly regarding ‘bad quality content’! There is a vast amount of quality posts in the community. It’s just the way they are valued by the bid bots that gives the appearance of a ton of bad content. I see incredible posts every day from all types that I follow and I always give them the penny upvote I have lol!

[surfermarly]

There is a vast amount of quality posts in the community.

YES, fully agreed! We only need to bring it to the front :-)

[barge]

Hi @ned, two thoughts:

1. you seemed to concede the point of 'poor quality' content on Steemit - which was pretty much what she opened with - although you did mention 'working' on it. The issue is of low quality stuff making it to the top of trending, rather than there being more low quality stuff than high - isn't it?
2. I thought you could have usefully emphasized the difference between Steemit and FB being 'decentralized' vs controlled / 'centralized'. I did like how I thought you implied that FB would need to build an app that works with the blockchain in order to 'enhance' the experience of their users :P

Nice to see all this activity Mr.CEO :D, you've certainly got a very calm and collected manner, and you gave a very clear presentation IMO. Wishing you well with the rest of it.
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[ned]

I really like how you’ve parsed out the issue in “1.” Thank you for the feedback!

[surfermarly]

How and when will “the issues in 1” be addressed @ned? Will SMTs even have an influence on the current design or would we rather need another hardfork (21) to fix it? Don’t you find it embarrassing by yourself to open the website in its current state? Is this the reason why you didn’t use it for so long?

[ned]

Don’t you find it embarrassing by yourself to open the website in its current state? Is this the reason why you didn’t use it for so long?

I have used it nearly every day since launch.... and I read and see everything on here ))

There is HQ content.. there’s not yet HQ ranking and surfacing systems

[surfermarly]

It’s great to know that you read, yet this doesn’t answer my main question :-)
Will SMTs bring that “HQ ranking and surfacing systems” to steemit.com?

And now that I have your attention: Is the decreasing number of active users (now below 60,000) somehow alarming to you? Will SMTs contribute to generally improve the user experience?

I’m not challenging your competence at all - as you know. I’m only concerned about the future of this place.

[ned]

Yes

[s3rg3]

On point. Amen 🙏

[nedy]

I'm so glad that you use Steemit like all others and communicate with the community (us) directly. The beginnings are always bumpy, but hey, I already feel quite good here. Just keep your good work!

[steemmatt]

Why not have two trending pages? One for posts that are screened daily for no bid bots ("Bid bot free!"), and the second for bid bot inflated nonsense which consistently gives the platform a huge black eye and openly displays the gaming of the rewards system?