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RE: Underbelly - No experience necessary
I think you guys think to much. It's a social media platform not the Writers Guild of America Club. There's more people on here who can't then can write with your type of exceptionalism. As I stated similarly in another article you posted once that everyone will follow, primarily, in the crowd they feel the most comfortable.
I think that thinking in groups is social and those that come and just randomly drop stuff for votes are strange. People discussing things they find interesting, important or whatever is the interaction of a social group, it doesn't really matter much what is spoken about or whether other people find it interesting. Some people talk about football or basketball as if it means something yet, totally pointless.
That might appear strange to you but it comes as no surprise to me when money is involved. I think I still engage more on my old blog and there's no incentive outside of socializing on topics of interest. Those topics are varied is what the point being was. There's are dozens of blog sites there, one doesn't find themselves engaged in all the various types they usually settle within those of interest and/or their comfort level. I am not saying there's no boundaries because I've seen/heard of them pulling a couple, they had to be pretty bad when you see what they don't pull. (lol) Overall though giving a wide range of discretion and acceptance allows the platform to grown, in their particular case they've grown to be one of the largest providers of blogging platforms for media outlets.
My point is that even though you may think that I or others think too much, it is about preference. Those that don't want to think don't have to read or engage here, no one is forced. those that aren't interested in the mechanics of the platform aren't forced to learn about. No one is forced in any form to be here but, if they have wants and needs that they think can be fulfilled here, they are going to have to learn about what goes on whcih may or may not be in their best interests. It does require thought. For me, if there is no learning experience involved, I generally don't spend much time on it. I am not a very good consumer of stuff.
What you are talking about is finding a way to censor what "you" don't think is quality value, one man's junk is another man's treasure. The last thing this platforms needs is a bunch of intellectual snobs deciding who gets to stay and who has to go, if they aren't abusing the platform them staying shouldn't be a concern. Utube, Facebook or any other social platform didn't reach the status of having billions of followers by deciding certain people just weren't good enough to be there. You had some valid idea's in your post but it boils my blood when I see post that want to be exclusive based on a intellectual standard. Everyone should have the ability to achieve to the best of their ability, if you don't like don't read it, if you don't like it being here no one is forcing you to stay either.
I think you have derailed somewhere. Firstly, a filter isn't censorship necessarily and, everything is available on the blockchain. Steemhunt for example only shows the hunts on its interface but all are available to view on the blockchain itself.
Secondly, define abuse? Is your definition sufficient or, should it be left up to individuals to decide what they want to see or not?
The problem is that as more users come on, new users are unable to be found at all as everything flows through. When there are 5 million active accounts, the posting stream is likely to be a few hundred/possibly 1000 a minute. What will you choose? Any basic search function is a filter and nothing is stopping anyone achieving their best here but them.
I don't think I've derailed on the issue of snobbery. I left another post the other day from someone else worried about how some of the stuff posted could potentially be running off investors. When in fact the opposite is probably true, that coupled with seeing how everyone feels they have to "fall" in line with everything said, it's like a echo chamber. Echo chambers don't sell good. The whole problem with the blockchain seems to be the problem of not being able to designate your followers into groups, if as you say everything is available to everyone. If people could designate certain material to the liking of certain groups and/or personal stuff like what they have in their garden or what sports they like this would alleviate that stuff going out into the community as a whole. Just like FB, you have friends, acquaintances, or the ability to share something personal with just one person or write in the people's names whom you want to exclusively share that with. It's a thought to keep thousands of pointless stuff flowing into the mainstream, I don't know how difficult that would be to set up but it's food for thought.
I think abuse is probably along the line of what you think it is, people who write comments that isn't reflective of anything written and/or you see that person/persons writing the same comment on a lot of post. People who write simplistic stuff then buy bots to make hundreds off it.
But abuse isn't or shouldn't be based on subject matter that someone else just plain doesn't like the subject. If someone writes a small article that makes a few pennies or a couple bucks commenting on sports, gardening, or some other subject one isn't into doesn't make it abuse. Like I've stated one man's junk is another man's treasure. You also have to realize that some people develop a blog relationship with some people, they will tend to take a look at that's person's material regardless of if it has any substantial value intellectually, that only strengthens the platform when people develop a strong following of various characters.
This is what the Dapps do and will continue to do so, as well as Hivemind, communities and SMTs. the separation has been going on since the beginning but people spend their time in Steemit alone expecting it all to happen in an instant.
If you think I haven't realised this you are mistaken. My entire blog is a discussion piece between people I have relationships with, whether I know them or not. Some join in the discussion, some don't, some use what they find to do something, some move along. Vale is never in the information, it is in the usage of it.