I know I haven't been the most steem positive person of late but that actually only surrounds a few aspects of Steem. Yes, they are very, very important aspects and need to be sorted but, there are other sides that I am hopeful for. Communities is one.
I do not even know how they will work, how they will be integrated or how the independent developers can leverage them to build much more practical, useful and creative app bases. I just understand that for those in the know, it makes it easier to access the Steem blockchain and sort the data.
When there is more people capable of searching the blockchain, I wonder what they will uncover and what patterns they will find. I wonder if this will be the drawcard that will bring in the professional teams of developers to give Steem a go. Potentially, it could just take one killer interface or app to do it and with SMTs coming on top.
Hive can be leveraged to create new features. Here are some that will be possible with hive:
- reactions, bookmarks
- comment on resteems
- indexing of custom profile data
- reorganizing of old posts (categorize, filter, hide/show)
- voting/polls (democratic or burn/send to vote)
- modlists: (e.g. spam, abuse, bad taste)
- crowdsourced metadata
- mentions indexing
- full-text search
- rich statistics
- follow lists
- bot tracking
- mini-games
- community bots
- and much more
With that list, a decent app developer could make an interface that much more resembles a fully-functioning platform and could potentially throw together something that is relatively unique even. Unique is something that Steemit is kind of missing for users other than having the 'decentralized' tag. And of course the 'earning potential*.
This is somewhere I am actually hoping community functionality will have a big effect. It would be great if some of the curators returned their eyes to the content and all of the people that make up the community. Perhaps with more functionality curating is simpler or their interest areas are easier to uncover. It would be nice to have some whales roaming the seas with sensitive eyes rather than delegating their stake to blind calls.
The other thing that I am hoping is that it will encourage people to engage more in general and discourage more of the spam and scam. There are always going to be some problems with these things on all platforms but perhaps if the incentive to engage was higher, it would disincentivize a lot of the poorer behaviours. It might also incentivize more of the community to flag a little more.
The core reason I am hoping that Hivemind delivers is because it promises to help make this place a community, We have lots of great people and content producers here and many who are thinking and investing themselves with a long-term view.
Perhaps this is an upgrade that will help the user base upgrade and actually make this place a community worth being a part of into the future.
Finally, something positive...
...Now, for my next post.
Taraz
[ a Steemit original ]