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RE: Steemit and the Web of Trust: A Potential Love Story
I really like your idea! The web of trust is a good concept but it has to be either well represented to the user or just run very well behind the scenes. I still think that this doesn't solve the issue of fast rewards (gratification) for the new user on a personal level. Like sure it will help him have a better, high quality feed, but most new users are looking for ways for them to be recognized by others, and maybe at the begining it might still be difficult.
The secret to depicting a web of trust that workS is to realize that it just looks like telling the system things that you like. It looks exactly like keeping track of which things you upvote and down vote.
We know how to do that. We've been doing that on social networks for a decade now.
If you feel like you want to let the user see exactly what's going on, you can show them a list of people and things that they've liked/upvoted/+1 and there it is. If you want to go the extra step that no one's really done yet, you go ahead and draw a graph up to three or four ranks deep showing the things that they've upvoted in the first rank and all the things that inherit from that underneath. If you want to get really fancy, you have that graph implemented in JavaScript and projected in a lovely canvas or, if you're really going for buzzword compliance, VR.
For new user, the first time that they use in upvote they see an immediate impact. All of the stuff that is presented to them gets in order which is informed by that act. If every piece of Media has a little icon or representation which shows that it has been promoted or demoted based on their decision-making, even better.
Boom. Immediate feedback. Immediate recognition.
One of the problems with Steemit as it stands is that people are, in fact, primarily looking for ways for them to be recognized by others – and going for the big whale money. And when they don't get it, they bounce off the system like a fly off a windshield.
That's unhealthy for the system as a whole and doubly so for those who are looking to get a payout.
One of the things that needs to be recognized in any social network is that most of the participants are not creators. Most of the participants are consumers. You want to provide those consumers access to things that they are willing to reward if you have any hope of those creators being rewarded. It's an ecosystem. It should be viewed as an ecosystem.
Unfortunately, I don't think that a lot of that kind of analysis has been brought to bear, and that's kind of a shame.
Well you can also get in touch with like witnesses, they also make great contributions to note what could be improved and have more contact with the developers I think. You do have some good points and I bet you can even create one extension or client to steemit which kinda does this
Believe me, I've put in my time in the programmer-pits; I have no desire to return there. I'll leave the isue of implimentation to other folk who enjoy it so much more.
Fair enough haha