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RE: Time To End The Biggest Failed Experiment On The Steem Blockchain!!!
You're right. Most of the content posted on any of these platforms is garbage and low quality. However, what these other platforms have is a way to allow valuable content to reach a wider audience. YouTube has a great algorithm that knows what videos I am interested in watching and is able to filter through most of the stuff I would consider low content and uninteresting. I guess that is what Steem is lacking. It still hasn't developed an effective algorithm to allow the best content to reach the front page or having certain content appear on the feeds of those that will probably find it interesting. Content voted through upvotes doesn't work better than YouTube's, Instagrams, etc. algorithms.
I would agree with you on that. The value of search and algorithms cannot be understated. Many do not like it but, for most, having videos that align with what they like is helpful.
Although we might not know who users are, they could certainly be analyzed from their activity to know what is of interest to them. The only reason such analytics has not been devised for this platform, yet, is the lack of paying advertisers and a need of a method to target them. One such scheme is outlined in my comment below
https://steemit.com/busy/@novacadian/re-taskmaster4450-time-to-end-the-biggest-failed-experiment-on-the-steem-blockchain-20181214t170703080z
Yes, you're absolutely right. I'm with @taskmaster4450 that we shouldn't have the "quality police" judging every piece of content but there does need to be a way for us to wade through the sh*t. A decent algo would help as you say. (don't rely on steemit ;))