{"id":9366,"date":"2016-10-03T13:49:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T00:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=9366"},"modified":"2021-07-16T07:37:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T19:37:14","slug":"six-changes-id-love-to-see-on-steemit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/computing\/six-changes-id-love-to-see-on-steemit\/","title":{"rendered":"SIX CHANGES I\u2019D LOVE TO SEE ON STEEMIT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not being a tech boffin, I have no idea how to do any of this stuff or even if it would actually work. Very possibly there is a chat area filled with people discussing these sorts of thoughts. But what the hell, here is my two cents worth. (I mean that figuratively, being well aware that I\u2019m a complete tech numpty, and this post may well pull in a great deal less than two cents)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Sort out that bloody reblogging thing (resteeming)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

What a pain in the arse, it\u2019s totally buggered up my feed. I\u2019d like to see it in a separate tab. Alongside \u201ctrending\u201d or \u201cnew\u201d, a tab called \u201cresteemed\u201d so I could click on it if I wanted to, and my feed would just be the posts from the people I\u2019m actually following.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And if I resteemed something myself, I\u2019d like that in a separate tab from my own posts too. Alongside \u201ccomments\u201d and \u201creplies\u201d it might be called \u201cfavourites\u201d (but because Steemit uses American English, I guess that would have to be \u201cfavorites\u201d) Then I could use it like a bookmarking feature to save pages I wanted to be able to find again later.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. A sort order for followed and followers<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There are two main things I want to do with these lists. Firstly, to see who my new followers are so I can check them out and see if I want to follow them back. To do this I want to be able to sort by new and have the newest followers at the top.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And secondly, to find specific people I\u2019ve followed and see their posts. So I\u2019d like \u201csort by alphabetical\u201d. At the moment the lists seem to be in a random but fixed order, one that is neither newest nor alphabetical, so more in the spectrum of just unhelpful.<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. Bookmarking<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As I mentioned above when I said resteeming could be used like bookmarking, a feature I\u2019d really like to see is a way to bookmark my favourite pages. Generally I use either Pinterest (but Pinterest doesn\u2019t work on Steemit due to there being no actual images stored within the posts) or Xmarks, which does work but it doesn\u2019t save images like Pinterest does.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Images are the main thing I want to see in my bookmarks because they are what I actually remember. A bookmarks tab could either be separate to the resteemed one, or they could be one and the same. I would just use it to do my bookmarking either way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Ditch the 100% vote slider for small fry<\/strong><\/h2>\n

My vote is worth just over two cents now. But as I power across the ocean sucking down plankton, I can\u2019t really stop each time I vote to consider the ramifications of whether all those minnows deserve the full power of my financial clout. Maybe the slider could just magically start appearing for the big players whose votes are worth more than say ten cents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And like many people on Steemit, I have no idea why sometimes when I upvote, the total payout goes down, but having better systems for explaining stuff to newbs is an area I won\u2019t get into here.<\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Ditch the flagging thing<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This one is very controversial, and I have three ideas. The simple way is to get rid of all flagging. Even Facebook, which is certainly not an example of free speech, doesn\u2019t have flagging (it does have many ways to do the job less obviously). I think flagging is bollocks, so this would be my perfect solution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Failing that, I\u2019d make all flags (downvotes) carry the same weight, like they do on Youtube. But it\u2019s harder to do that on Steemit because the voters here all carry different voting power, so that\u2019s probably not an option.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My third best option is to make a downvote equivalent to the power of the median (middle) upvote on that post. By that I mean, if there were, say, 11 votes ranging from .01 of a cent to $100, use the value of the 6th vote from the bottom (which is also the 6th from the top) which might be more like 10c.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Possibly some whales won\u2019t like this suggestion much. But most whales view Steemit as an investment, and want to encourage a larger user base. Many of the 99% of people on Steemit who are not yet whales, don\u2019t much like the idea that a whale can potentially come along and bury their post because they disagree with it. As happy minnows are the key to Steemit’s future growth, hopefully a lot of whales will be cool with this idea, or one a bit like it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

6. Encourage more voting<\/strong><\/h2>\n

With percentage sliders and talk of five vote limits, the message that is being passed out is along the lines of \u201cyour vote is really valuable and should be withheld and saved for that great post in the sky. Hold your anus tight and never squander your riches\u201d when really, for the vast majority of Steemit users, their vote is worth bugger all (literally less than one cent) and voting is symbolic rather than a real financial redistribution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whale thinking has possibly dominated Steemit voting, when really, we are almost all just plankton and minnows and would be better off going apeshit and voting like maniacs. I can understand why, in a country where people are seriously trying to decide whether to vote for Donald Chump or Killary Clinton, there is a resistance to voting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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SIX CHANGES I\u2019D LOVE TO SEE ON STEEMIT Not being a tech boffin, I have no idea how to do any of this stuff or even if it would actually work. Very possibly there is a chat area filled with people discussing these sorts of thoughts. But what the hell, here is my two cents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[36,9,10,34],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11418,"url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/steemit\/a-censorship-threat-to-steemit\/","url_meta":{"origin":9366,"position":0},"title":"A CENSORSHIP THREAT TO STEEMIT","date":"July 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"FLAG THE TRUTH AWAY New accounts are now being set up explicitly for the purpose of flagging\/censoring content they want to suppress. 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