RE: That Bitter Sweet Steemit Symphony
That song seems rather appropriate for recent goings on XD
If the kind of thing that steem is doing hasn't been done before (that we know of) it's going to be an interesting ride, mistakes are going to be made and we're going to see the best and worst that people have to offer (I have seen blatantly obvious disregard for everything and everyone in the disgustingly greedy drive to maximise the self at all costs all the way through to fundraising efforts of various sizes and ambitions, and I got sick enough of the former that I did a lot of conflation and started unfollowing people who regularly used bidbots).
We can just see how long we can stay on to see where it goes :) That was promising about the trending page by the way, I have heard that the tabs are actually readable these days. I haven't looked at trending since I joined (which is kind of a habit from other sites) and eventually completely chickened out of new when the spammers looking for a quick buck were shitposting everywhere.
I thought so :)
You're definitely speaking my language right now. I unfollowed a lot of people back in the day because of shit posting. I still have people in my followers list who have left, needs another purge to be honest. And yes, Steemit was first but it's not been the last. Trybe is coming fast & could eclipse us if we don't make much needed changes. Already Trybe reminds me of Steemit in the beginning days; good quality content from ex-Medium creators.
In saying that, I still want Steem to succeed. Doesn't seem right that @dan leaves, starts another blockchain, and one of their first Dapps happens to compete directly with his last project. For that reason I want Trybe to fail. Spiteful I know, but I still feel like @dan abandoned us (I know that wasn't the case but that's exactly how it felt at the time) so I no longer support his projects.
I like the direction Steemit, Inc. is going & if I were investing again I'd be very Bullish on Steem between now and January '19 when SMTs are released.
All "up and coming" things that go anywhere past the idea stage is always going to have "quality content" to begin with as the early adopters and believers in the project start out. As soon as it sees some level of success the spammers looking for a quick buck will come. Hopefully they already have something in place to deal with it when it happens :)
This is true, updates bring users back in troves until disillusionment sets in again, kinda like a parabolic trend. As I understand, Steemit, Inc. is planning to implement account-based voting rather than stake-based voting to eliminate manipulation. I think over-time changes such as that will completely rid ourselves of bot plagues, spammers, scammers, and more.