RE: Open letter to change voting patterns | A plea to give #NewSteem a chance

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RE: Open letter to change voting patterns | A plea to give #NewSteem a chance

whatsup in #plea • 6 years ago

When I said get out of the community I meant we spend a huge amount of time focusing on things that only matter to the few people who are already here. No one who is not here cares about 50/50 or if the content is decent, who votes for whom.

My view is absolutely about perspective and I am very glad they helped reduce the bot votes. I didn't hate all bots but there was no question something needed to be cleaned up.

I realize we are all going to have different standards, but I do not agree the content has improved. Several of my favorite authors were downvoted for weeks and some of them have quit posting all together.

Also I am and have always been an advocate of casual posts.

Well, I think it is unrealistic to expect everyone who holds SteemPower to manually curate (Although, I do think it is best) It is a very limiting model

6 years ago in #plea by whatsup

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minismallholding 6 years ago

When I said get out of the community I meant we spend a huge amount of time focusing on things that only matter to the few people who are already here.

Ah, gotcha. A lot of the things I look at are pertinent to the world outside Steem too, so I guess I didn't think of that. A couple of the communities are very much for extending outside of Steem. After all, we're not going to have a very useful currency in Steem if it can't be widely used. The blockchain is a good repository for information which can't just get deleted like it does on Facebook.

Also I am and have always been an advocate of casual posts.

Are these the ones getting shot down? I've always enjoyed a post that gets a conversation going and those often are casual ones, so I get the need for them. This is the point where I say downvoting isn't needed. If you don't think the post deserves a vote, don't give it one, but if others have decided it was worth one, then that shouldn't be taken away from them.

There are always going to be opinions, though.

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whatsup 6 years ago

Absolutely.

I would just like to see the conversation shift from internal issues and opinions to promotion and development of the chain.

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