1. WTF introductions and low quality content.
> "(...)The major problem here is people have valued introductions over real content for example: I have read yesterday the quick introduction of a girl having a blast in vegas showing a verified picture of her ( could really well be another photoshoped steem picture) In this picture she has a crack of boobs out and she ended earning 1500$ so far.
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@lasvegasgirl/new-on-steemit-and-super-excited-im-livin-it-up-in-las-vegas-and-loving-every-minute-of-it-hi-everyone (...)"
Source:
@kuriko at https://steemit.com/steemit/@kuriko/response-to-the-rise-of-identity-theft-on-steemit-here-s-my-solution-to-the-problem-anyx-ned-dan
2. Increasing number of spam, plagiarism and identity-theft.
Edit:
Additional information on this topic is available here:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@mammon/plagiarism-and-identity-theft-on-steemit-quick-and-easy-way-to-make-a-lot-of-cash
Yet as a beta experiment I think it is doing well. People are responsible for voting for good content. If people start voting for selfies or similar useless memes and jokes, steemit could fail. One way the developers addressed this is to limit the number of posts per day to 4 instead of the mass posting that was happening. They are trying things out and I give them credit. The people heavily invested here realize that if steemit is no different than any other social media platform it will lose what makes it special. It's so new that a week from now, a month, or a year are hard to predict what might happen. Could celebrities overtake it and drive away people who post quality and can't compete with celebrities to get their content heard? Will the steem price rise or fall, or what other features will be added. The steemit whitepaper is an excellent source of the minds behind the scenes. Those with millions of dollars invested cannot afford to have crap covering up other great content. They have a vested interest in all users and I don't believe it is simply a monetary goal. It would be cool if @ned or @dan could post weekly updates about some things going on in steemit and some of the best posts and what users could vote on to make steemit a place everyone can enjoy for a long time.
You got my vote, but still a long plan of action must be put in place. Steemit passes 25,000 users last week if i'm right and most of them unfortunately registered here just for the money. I do not even want to think about the tons of crap that will flood Steemit if we score 100,000 users :-/
True, but you aren't able to just sign up and cash out. They have created a great way to prevent extreme price fluctuations. Scalability will be important as not everyone has the ability to read and upvote content. Being followed by a group that enjoys your content will be important, but a way to discover new users and keep smaller fish from becoming discouraged, because if a large amount of people stop enjoying the platform, steem will be worthless. I'm ok with having invested no fiat dollars and having the opportunity to take some out. I don't know what twitter was like at first (It's pretty crappy now IMO) but they did scale it with ads. I'm constantly thinking of ways to improve it and thought https://steemit.com/steemit/@bendjmiller222/proposal-to-bring-non-intrusive-optional-ads-to-steemit might be a viable option. I know it's decentralized, but if you post content that consistantly receives a large percentage of downvotes, I think your power should be limited. Also new users should probably not have unlimited posting available. For certain levels yes, because those people want to only create good content, but new users should have a limit of three or four posts until they reach a certain level. Less total posts, but greater quality should be a win win for everyone. I understand there are flaws that need addressing, but just because we aren't dolphins or whales doesn't mean we can't come up with ideas that others may see and love. I'm willing to try and if I make money doing that's cool, but not the most important thing to me.
completely agree with you
and that's why steemit should develop a new anti-spam into their system
even my dental articles i post recently which are completely made by me didn't get that attention
That's true, but if I were to guess at the moment, not that many people may be interested in dental articles until the user base expands. Not all content is interesting to everyone, even if it is well done. I hope that does not discourage you, but maybe you could save some content for later times when people may search like a youtube and find great content.
you right about all of this i may have to change my articles
At least right now, people are interested in others being honest and open in a way that shows you are human with flaws like everyone else and not living a picture perfect happy life like people tend to post on Facebook. You could talk about dentistry or something hard about your life or what value you bring to steemit. Sharing about yourself has no chance that you may have posted a question or answer that is already out there. Spend some time in the comments of your favorite posters. @stellabelle does phenomenal work and offers an anonymous service if you have things you wish to share, but not have your name attached to it.
This summs up steemit
IMO if steemit is to suceeed it will need an automated way to determine value. Machine learning with community consensus on how the bot is operating may be a solution. It would also need a way to verify identity and have equal voting weight among users.
It should work as as soon as people will realize that Steemit is all about quality content, not nudity and funny cats images. Identity checks? Well, this may not work with cryptocurrency :-(
Identity as in verification that you're a living person.
@anyx: With all the respect for your work unfortunately Cheetah will fail.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@anyx/cheetah-bot-the-fight-against-spam-and-plagiarism-continues
People will always try to game the system, but the harder it is to do so the better. It's not impossible to have many facebook accounts and link them. Time consuming yes but not impossible. But it doesn't really matter until an investment is made since steem power can't be transferred. You can't make 100 accounts and move all the steem power to one account. And people who find plagiarism should recieve rewards, and repeat offender who do not source/give credit to the original creator, should have their accounts suspended. I think it's a matter of tableing all ideas and seeing what works best to implement as many good ideas as possible.