So I will have a go at my personal wishlist for the steemit platform. I have great hope for the platform but do feel it still has a ways to go.
1) An easier way to find content of interest to me. It would be great if my personal feed actually sniffs out content that may be of interest to me. A simple change here is to look at the tags I usually post in myself rather than basing it purely on my followers which seems to be the way currently. Long term I would like to see something even more sophisticated. Similar to my google feed in terms of recommendation behaviour.
2)Eliminate spam as much as possible. I feel the community could play a part here in solving the problem. All we would need is a sufficiently large and motivated community group, let's call it spam police that work together in automated fashion to flag content that is clearly spam. The details would need to be hashed out carefully, there is a fine line between censorship and eliminating spam - but completely do-able it will all come down to will power. Perhaps this should be a topic for a further post.
3)Eliminate blindly upvoting as a behaviour pattern. It has happened to me once or twice after posting content that I get an immediate upvote from some random stranger that clearly didn't read my post. This is one part of the problem - folk who upvote simply in the hope of the reward obtained. A minor UI change to force someone to at least have scrolled through a post may work combined with a small time delay. It may irritate some but if you are actually reading posts you won't notice it.
4)A community that serves as an example of what social media should be about. This is a generalisation to be fair, but it is up to the community to make this social media experiment work. We have the responsibility to educate newcomers, it is up to us to deliver great content. In terms of systematic improvements we need to back those steemit witnesses that aim to improve the experience for the betterment of all. We have that power.
What are your thoughts? How can we improve steemit and solve some of the issues that I raised?
These are all very valid points that would help improve the experience for everyone!! I like the idea you mentioned in point 3 where you're forcing someone to actually read your article. I get the same on my posts from time to time. Upvoted but not even read, haha!! Point 1 is also something that I feel strongly about. It would be great to be able to adjust my personal feed in a similar fashion to the general Steemit feed plus added in there your suggestion on the Google feed system. Great points raised here!!
Totally agree with you @deanoza! All the issues you raised have been bugging me as well, especially getting the feed to deliver content of interest to me, as my google feed does, something that still amazes me (not being an IT specialist). Your suggestion in point 3 makes sense, one should first read and then upvote! Very frustrating when someone has only upvoted a post that one has researched and taken time with, and clearly they have not read it! As a newbie, I feel kind of puzzled at times when I see the huge amounts some posts earn, posts that in actual fact have zero quality content, obviously upvoted by steemers only interested in rewards! Excellent points raised, but how to solve it?