As promised yesterday, I opened an official request (by creating an issue on Steemit Github repository) for changing the labels from "Upvote" to "Upsteem" on the Steemit website. You can see my reasons in the picture above, but just for the sake of those who aren't looking at pictures, here they are again:
- "upsteem" is closer to the name of the site, it's not voteit.com, it's steemit.com
- "upsteem" will make it easier for people to understand what's happening when they are clicking that arrow - it's not like they're * electing the content in some electoral college, but they are driving away steem from the rewards pool
- since voting is such a common activity, changing the name to be closer to the site name will help with brand awareness
- it will make the site stand apart from other sites which are using appreciation input and create an identity (just like "Like" is almost a Facebook patent)
- it will give people a nice, personal touch: the self-esteem goes up
Not everybody agreed with this proposal in my first post - and I didn't expect it to be that way - but the majority did so I think it's an important change. If you want to show your support for that, you can go to the Github issue and post your comments. That's where the Steemit devs are certainly looking, hence that's the place for such a proposal.
It's just a UI change, it will not affect anything related to the logic of voting, just how it's named. But I think how it's named is very important.
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