Steemit, Palnet
That's where you go to find variety.
Let's pretend for a moment. Feel like using some of that imagination stuff?
No? Okay, fine, whatever. Just scroll down, vote, carry on.
So if you've made it this far, good, that means you're ready for the rest of article.
Close your eyes.
Wait. No! Don't close your eyes! You'll need those for reading.
Picture this:
STEEM, is a magazine rack. Steemit, Palnet, other tribes and communities; those are magazines.
You can also find videos and music on this magazine rack known as STEEM. It's a rack. The rack is full of entertainment. Whatever. There's no need to be overly technical here.
So you picked up a magazine just now. You opened it up and here I am rambling away about nothing. Is this interesting? Am I at least trying? Does this look like one of the hundreds of other posts you saw today about the changes in Steemit's UI?
Is this a post about the things said in the featured post from steemitblog; the one nearly everyone can see? Is this a post to say, "Hello. Captain Obvious here again. I'm sure you already noticed but in case you haven't, once I'm done writing I'm sure you'll notice but just in case you don't, the comment section looks different today. Thanks. Now pay me."
I was browsing the new sports community tribe thing today. On the trending page there, I saw a post about Steemit's UI changes.
Clearly, that author is simply writing drivel so he can collect tokens. That article serves no purpose. It's old news. It's obvious news. Clearly the author has no self awareness. Doesn't realize if I'm flipping through pages in a sports magazine, and come across an article about flowers, I'm turning the goddamn page. I might even become annoyed and put the magazine down.
Which was exactly what happened.
As soon as I saw that post, I put the sports magazine down.
I picked up the Palnet magazine. I expect to see variety here. It's like grabbing a handful of magazines off the rack and flipping pages. Steemit is much like grabbing an even larger stack and flipping through pages. Anything that looks like it exists only for token stacking, I skip. It's just spam.
For instance, and no offense to those who do it, but those fitness report cards. Why use the palnet tag for that as well? Have I ever voted for your fitness report card on Steemit? It's great that you're active, and I approve of that behavior. I work out as well; but I don't vote for content that's only there to pull rewards out of the pool, especially when I see the tags of numerous communities being applied to that sort of material.
I saw one dude actually buy votes for one of those report cards! Why push that material closer to the front of the magazine? People will still flip the page. Besides, that stuff is more like the card that falls out of the magazine.
Why clutter up the feeds and make it more difficult for people to find stuff, then complain about how difficult it is to find stuff here?
So anyway...
Back to the Steemit material on the sports trending page.
I looked him up on Steemit. He had produced eight posts within 24 hours! Minimal effort; dipping into as many reward pools as he possibly can. I don't want to mention his name though. The name isn't important. Paying attention to what you vote for is important.
After everything we've learned from Steemit's mistakes, mistakes that are hopefully, finally, after all this time, maybe getting fixed, ask yourself:
Is it good for my business if I cater to those who offer the least amount of effort so they can gain the most profit?
Do you allow your employees to take ten dollar bills out of the cash register on their days off?
If you caught them doing that, would you give them a raise, or fire them?
Right now,
I'm a content producer.
When I'm finished here, I'll be a content consumer. I know what I want. If I go to a sports group, I want to see sports, not the spammy guy talking about Steemit's UI.
If I'm on Steemit, sure! I'll gladly skip over the 1588 low effort posts about Steemit's UI change today. Some of my good reliable sources for all things STEEM might have something to say about it, and I'll most likely pay attention to them, but the rest of those authors are shit out of luck.
Fair Warning
Plenty of communities will spring up soon, everywhere.
And there will be plenty of those spammy authors writing one sentence about how they played a video game that day, they'll include a picture, and use the gaming community tag. Then they'll write a sentence about what they ate, include a picture, and use the foodie community tag. Then they'll write a sentence about a news story they read, include a link, and use the news community tag. Then they'll say, "And I'm about to golfing! See you later!" There's that sports community tag. Then they'll slap on a Palnet tag for good measure. Then there you have it. The shit post heard all around the world.
Then to add insult to injury, they'll shoot for that glorious free money offered by team ROI and the rest of the robot family.
No community can benefit from those bogus content creators who are only churning out junk so they can collect tokens.
I used to say, "That trending page on Steemit turns new people away." I assumed, based upon the condition it was in and some experience in the biz, that conclusion was the only logical conclusion. I don't know if I was right or wrong, but I was a new guy today, and a trending page turned me away.
I don't want to be gone forever though, so I write this. Sure, I might sound like an asshole, but my intention is to help.
If people have to work for our attention. Make them work for your tokens.
Keep the aisles clean and free of debris.
