More and more people joined, more and more posts were voted ... more and more people complained.
Completely agree to this point. Another point w.r.t. India I want to bring about is that steemit is not popular here. It is very sad that people see this as some ponzi scheme. And other Indians see it as a source of free money. These 2 class of people are 2 extremes. Quality science writers are really non-existent from India in steemit. Other extremes are shit posters, expecting free money. We have to come up with good measures. Quality is important not Quantity. In spreading awareness about steemit and #steemSTEM in general I think we have to reach to Indian research institutes. Making things real rather than virtual only will work. There are enough science enthusiasts in India. #steemSTEM as I told once can help lot of Indian students who are struggling with funding. Most of the students have not realized this. Regarding shit posters, I think punishment is the only way. Serious filtering is needed. One suggestion for bringing up science writers to steemit in India is this: Why not we receive some article from people and post it in @steemstem acccount as guest articles? And periodically conducting contests should be considered. Just some random thoughts. I will refine these thoughts btw.
Distilled is meant for this purpose and I think it does an excellent job of pointing out the interesting articles biweekly.
We have always positively rewarded what is good and ignored what is bad. This is known to work better, from my experience here ^^
Based on the simple math of who owns what percent, STEEM and most cryptocurrencies are in fact structured like pyramid schemes or ponzi schemes.
You're right, it's either people who avoid the website because of obvious inequity if they don't need the money, or people who need the money and are forced to use the site as a crypto faucet.
I think the sentence "can help a lot of Indian students" can be further expanded to the fact that steemstem could potentially help students from anywhere, and no doubt it has in many cases, but we must ask ourselves what the most good we can do with the funds it can direct really is.
Yeah I agree . I was talking from Indian context. Yeah it should be more general. One thing which I love about #steemSTEM is that if made use properly this is an excellent win-win solution for students or content creators and steemit community as well.
unfortunately....
Punishment creates a negative atmosphere, although we do blacklist people. The best thing would be for the community to engage with each other more, that'd be a lot healthier.
Guest articles are tricky, because who gets to keep the money? But in theory, it could work.
Contests are a lot of work and need funding, but we're supporting them from time to time. And yes, we're thinking about ways to hold more contests.
@suesa : Distributing money is a tricky thing. I agree. I think we will attract more quality writers, but. One suggestion can be 1/2 the money for steemSTEM maintenance and half for the author if they joins the community. I know it may sound immature, but there is lot of noise in the community, right now. The only way to overcome is through quality content and curation. I believe that Stackoverflow model is a great way to maintain quality. I see lot of articles with no substance in steemit. Bad for both STEEM and #steemSTEM. One more thing: I think if we believe in science and there are steemSTEM articles which propagates nonsense, flagging should be done after warning. Like steemSTEM trail being used for appreciating great posts, there should also be flagging against wrong content if they use steemSTEM tag.
I personally don't like flagging things that aren't spam or plagiarism, and I am not sure we should use the trail and our delegated power for it. But it's something that will have to be discussed.