Dear Steemians,
This is an open "letter", feel free to comment your complaints below and hopefully this may initiate some change.
- The Spam: we live and breathe it but on here it just seems like I'm drowning in it. There are plenty of good creators out there but the spam is terrible. Isn't there some way to filter out those who fail to put some effort into their posts?
- Introductions: I've noticed that when I introduced myself I received a lot of attention and upvotes which got me off to a flying start. In contrast,
signed up and many of the individuals failed to vote for her and her post but instead chose to comment and then vote for themselves. I find this behaviour spammy and bot-like. I'm sure other new Steemians have experienced this before but maybe feel they don't have a voice (well technically they don't because of their lack of Steem Power) Should self-voting be disabled? I'd vote for that!
- Finding new content: with so many sections and tags I find it difficult to filter through all the spam and find decent posts.
- Notifications: I really don't get notifications if I'm mentioned in a post (should I?) and I would like to. It makes it so much easier to join the conversation if you know you're already a part of it. Regardless I rarely get notifications and have to click around to discover what's going which is really time consuming.
- Comments unrelated to my posts or to anything really just make me annoyed. Especially when I put time and effort into writing something only to be inundated with partial replies in broken English which have nothing to do with anything.
On the positive side to balance things out I love the platform and other content creators - I wish I had more time to participate and comment on their fantastic contributions but the spam makes it difficult. The support for new content creators is excellent and I love having my posts picked up and receiving new feedback. I love the fact that there are no ads on here also.
Being a Beta site there are differing expectations and I hope that things change for the best in the future. Adding money to the equation really brings out the desperate side of people when it should bring out their individuality and creativity but never mind I guess.
If you have a solution to my annoyances please share them below to shut me up ;)
Thanks for reading :)