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RE: 'This Platform Returns Value To Those Who Create Value' - That Was The Original Idea Of Steem According To Ned Scott (Amsterdam 2016) || Are We Still Following The Same Vision?

in #steemit8 years ago (edited)

This post and @timcliff's post paint a fuller picture of some challenges, though a few of the points you mention I'm less aware of (I know there's a flag controversy between some members and this has seemed to grow).

There is zero solidarity and team spirit on Steemit. Constructive debates do not exist anymore. Most users send out their voting bots in order to allocate their contribution while the real conversations between human beings take place on discord.

There may be some areas where solidarity exists, or where we see discussions, but if these become common or people become aware of them, the result is that spammers fill them up. I'm reluctant to share a few good tags I've found because I've observed spammers looking for these areas. For instance, suppose that the #photography tag attracted solidarity where people shared pictures they enjoyed and got feedback. Eventually, bots may figure this out and start to spam it just to get votes. Case in point, look at some of the comments on @maarnio's posts - it's clear what his posts are about, yet bots will be like "Thank you for the analysis." What analysis? It's a game! I found another bot on a really great #steemSTEM post which said Improve the quality of your posts, yet offered nothing helpful. As @timcliff highlighted in his post I mentioned earlier, some members are helping out by flagging these bots.

So the one million dollar question is: how do we contribute? What does value mean to us?

In the least some of us can avoid upvoting content that is spam, whether comments or posts. For some of us, we may like upvoting content that we simply enjoy, like games, technology, etc. Since I want people to curate, like I curate more than I post, I do like to reward curators on my posts by letting them upvote a post and wait a while before I do. It benefits them and I hope this encourages them to consider curation over posting 100x a day (too many posts per day becomes counterproductive, especially since it's not sustainable with comments and curation).

I'd love to see other suggestions too. Between this post and @timcliff's posts, I think there are some good things happening as well and people trying to make a positive impact.

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Hey @sqlinsix!
Actually my article didn't pretend to address the spam problems @timcliff was bringing out in this article, I rather tried to find out where our Steemit ship is navigating to in general.

Reducing spam is surely an important task when it comes to improve the content structure. Still before taking actions you need a strategy that follows a vision. Now we're lacking a vision, thus we actually don't know what the overall plans for this platform are. Everybody is working on their little projects and task forces and apps and promotion, but there is no common goal.

From my personal point of view I believe that even in decentralized organizations you need a leader, someone or a group of someone's that represent the ideas of the community, some personalities you love to follow, people that pull and push at the same time.

Now you see what happens when you lack leadership: stagnation.