I really like your responses, which are grounded and grounding in a way...
Anyway, you wrote that you support whatever takes Steem platform futher. We as @steeveapp have started a bot that regularly upvotes content that it finds engaging based on data collected from user activity on Steeve. You can read more about in the announcement that went out just today. Perhaps you would find it meaningful to delegate some SP to the bot to support both Steeve and good content on Steem ;-)
In case I am like the 42nd person today to bother you with delegating SP today, I am sorry, but there are limited ways how to spread the word.
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I'm not going to delegate my SP to any voting bot, but...
Maybe it would be a good idea to promote Steeve (and its ratings) by posting aggregated data (weekly?) about posts that are highly ranked (eligible for upvoting?)
Trouble is that one of the factors is number of views, which is specific to the front-end (i.e. views from steemit, busy or steempeak doesn't count).
We are preparing a section on Steeve with the highest ranked posts like you described. Making a post just with the list would be imo unnecessary blockchain bloating when we can do it off chain.
Edit: this section is already live.
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Well, in a long run, you are right, but as a show case to present and describe how it works and why it's different it still can bring the value.
Yeah, I also has it on my mind to create posts like that. Thanks for reminding me :-)
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We are also going to use the rating as one of the story sortings available in Steeve, but that is not the same as making weekly reports.
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This sounds like you are against voting bots in principle. But I just found out you are delegating to @steem-ua. Can you explain?
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Their concept of alternative reputation system was really promising, and that's not a vote selling service.
It was meant to be a support for development efforts to get some traction (I'm not taking part in a "Stake-Based Sponsor Rewards").
I think the goal was achieved, and I should remove that delegation quite some time ago, especially that in such cases utopian route should be a way to go.
Thanks for pointing that out. It's good time to clean things out.
Oops, my goal was not for you to remove the vote. I actually kind of like what they are doing, because we had a similar idea with the follows. But what they didn't realize is that the situation on Steem with the trending page and no other content discovery mechanism leads to people following every author that seems at least little bit interesting. That makes follow much less relevant than they probably think (see for example their regular upvotes to buildawhale).
Are you assuming Steeve is a vote-selling service? That might be a big misunderstanding. Steeve is more like an AI-enhanced curation guild. Steeve gives recommendations from outside of people's feeds, they decide whether they like it or not and SteeveBot then upvotes the most popular posts (overall, not just the recommendations). There is no way people can buy SteeveBot's vote and we took measures against its potential gaming.
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