Hello Steemians, as you’ve probably noticed we’ve been experimenting with a new feature on steemit.com called “Featured Posts.” The purpose of this feature is to ensure that steemit.com users are provided with important information about Steem and steemit.com developments, but an added benefit is that it enables us to share exceptional community-generated content.
By clicking the “X” in the top right corner of these posts you can ensure that you will never see that individual post ever again.
Users who enjoy dark mode might not have been seeing this X previously, but as of now the X should be clearly visible at all times.
Important Steem Updates
Featured Posts also offer a venue through which we can share important updates from other Steem projects as well as great projects that aren’t necessarily powered by Steem, but are eager to communicate how they can deliver value to Steem users like today’s post from @snaxteam. Snax is a blockchain solution that rewards people for sharing content on public social media and they recently integrated Steem! Many Steem users like @NathanMars7, @surfermarly, @steevc, and so many more have taken to Twitter to get the word out about Steem and now thanks to Snax they can earn crypto (in both SNAX and STEEM) for that great content posted outside of the Steem ecosystem.
steemitwallet.com
We decided to implement this feature after the roll out of steemitwallet.com during which it became clear that we were not getting important updates into the hands of our users. Leading up to that release we published a number of communications that we hoped would prepare users for the upcoming change. Despite those communications, which were featured in the “Updates Log,” an unacceptable number of users were still taken by surprise. Featured Posts will dramatically increase the number of people who see important updates, but we understand that with this capability comes a responsibility to ensure that we are not polluting people’s feeds.
Paid Advertising?
We have not accepted any payments in return for being featured, but we are open to this possibility in the future. We would still vet these posts to ensure they are sufficiently high quality and provide valuable information to Steem stakeholders.
Communities and Pinned Posts
Featured Posts are actually a rough implementation of a feature that will launch with Communities called “Pinned Posts” which will enable community owners and moderators to feature the content they believe provides valuable information to their community members. So if you have any feedback on how this feature can be improved, we’d love to read that feedback in the comments section below.
The Steemit Team
We think this is a wise way to make full use of the 10-15 Million monthly page views and eyeballs steemit.com as a top 5000 website.
Any communications by the Steemit team can now be better communicated to Steemians who are using Steemit.com. Which has been a major pain point by the users from what we have observed.
Maybe one day @coingecko would have a featured post on Steemit.com too when the need arises😉
Hey nice website coin gecko i like how you always boost EOS higher than coinmarketcap, and hey heres 4 cents so I pushed your comment up Over $1 ! Nice!
Hey what does this REALLy mean about the X to Hide, from @steemitblog
Believe it or not i accidently hit that X on this very post, but i went back to steemitblog blog wall and theer it was,thanfully,
what if we nee dto see posts we accidently hide? There should eb a wauy to get them back
also what you said is already false, i did see the post again, As i should,m why would we want to NEVER let people see a post, it should just go into a "Hidden Post" folder so we can retrieve them later if we change our mind or made a mistake @steemitblog please acknowledge
gracias
I like this feature and I think it will be really important when you drop the next changes to the interface, like wallets, etc.
I think some just aren't thinking about when it will matter yet.
bump :)
yeah i agree and hey @whatsup how about NEXT @steemitblog we fix the PROMOTED post section,
we could have the promoted SECTIOn be deleted all together or hidden, and have a simple BOT that POSTED the posts in the front page, sprinkling them throughout the chain, because if we just put the ads in between real posts, people might find a way to ad block them/ OR maybe not
that might not be such a difficult problem but using an Account to REPOST the featured posts, so the account upvotes itself with money used to pay for the promotion, instead of burning the money, like we do now, we have that money sent to bid bots to promote the post..... but the money goes back to the Bot that reposts these featured posts, NOT back to the creator, and then the SBD received is Burned, sent to null, maybe SP too or we keep that use it for the project... but yeah Promoted Posts deserve to be put into the trending page and the only way to organically do that is just use a bot to actually post and upvote itself after posting these reposts of the Submitted posts that peopel want to pay to promote...
i know it sounds like a roundaboutr way, why not just use bidbots in first place?Well this promotion button the NEW one would atcually BE an elaborate Bid Bot button, and rightfully so.... its the ACTUAL way you pay to get promote don steem, NOT with sending ur coins to Null and placing it in some section no one ever uses, but we didnt know that back then and now we all know how paid promotion actually works and how it can actually be profitable, maybe we keep teh SP, maybe pay back the SBD we earn on the bot, anyway, we have the tools to fix the promoted section without any hardfork
TLDR; Imagine fixing promoted Section by having the "Promote" button activate a BidBoit menu, like @postpromoter or @booster for example, like how @steemplus has a button to "Boost" your post which just leads to a bidbot that sells you an upvote OR copies and pastes the post to a new post to be upvoted and have its rewards burned. . We can just hide the promoted section, and just have the Promoted Section official bid bot post its "promoted" posits to the trending page, bidbot can burn rewards
It would be nice if every Steemit blog could pin one post to the top of the page too, that way the businesses, intitiatives and communities can keep a post there that tells about themselves and has information, rules, procedures etc.
I would love it too!
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This is planned and in the spec for communities (also is mentioned in this post) 🙂
Do you guys have any plans for other ways to generate revenue so you don't have to sell so much steem?
What is a community? Do you mean a hashtag community or a platform community like Steemit.com could be a community and Busy.org could be another community, or what does community mean? Does it have something to do with groups or witnesses or people you follow or something else?
Communities is a planned feature that could be thought of similarly to subreddits, but can also be used in conjunction with user's individual blogs. The back-end software for this feature is Hivemind which is a non-consensus data layer for Steem that makes adding new social features much more trivial to implement than directly at the blockchain level. All posts and comments on steemit.com are currently powered by Hivemind which shipped earlier this year.
Justin, so, is a subreddit more like a Facebook group or more like a sub-category of a forum, a message board? I guess, like a forum as Reddit is a forum. But I see a forum as similar to Facebook groups. Different layout but same purpose behind a Reddit and FB group it would seem.
When are communities coming? Sounds exciting. Thanks.
Seems like a good idea...I'd welcome that tool.
Then everyone would pin and it would get cluttered, and would defeat the purpose!
It would pin to their blog, not the feed.
Oh wow!
I totally agree. That is what Twitter, YouTube, Minds, Gab, has.
Please stop this.
Youre continuing to establish the idea that everyone should write STEEM related content making the community even more of an echo chamber filled with clones.
Please stop. This is no way to attract mainstream audiences. Everyone outside Curie and OCD already ignores 99% of non crypto content.
At least you dont have to make it worse.
You have the sidebar, use it, but stop featuring posts. This sends a bad message across.
The content is already one sided as is.
@andrarchy
I think it would be much worse for people to not know what we're working on for the platform. We've made major changes in regards to our level of communication this year. This is one way that we can make sure a majority of our users see our regular updates and important announcements.
No. Thats what the sidebar is for. Featured posts are free promotion and by pushing Steem related content up you create an echo chamber and you push creators to copy the people that get featured because getting featured means whale votes.
And we all want whale votes.
How do you get them? Copy what the featured guys do.
Its a very bad idea.
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I have to agree the sidebar is a better place for this content.
I have to agree
The sidebar is a better
Place for this content.
- valued-customer
I'm a bot. I detect haiku.
No. The sidebar is terrible and doesn't help with the same goal. You seem to have the wrong idea about what gets chosen to be featured also . But that's all up for discussion.
No i got pretty clear idea. Lol. "Steem related posts that are seen as important for the community".
It is even clearly stated in the context of this post.
Its an awful idea. Trending is full of trash posts that are put there without proof of brain and now they want to give away more spots that arent community voted? To steemians that andrarchy follows and posts that talk about steem. +all the things ive written above.
I repeat. Tragic idea. Do not do it.
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You say terrible, I say great. Shrug
Haha. Well its not the first time we disagree. 😁
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Only changes from Steemit inc.
Plenty of people outside of curie and OCDB look at non crypto content.
Plenty of people
Outside of curie look at
Non crypto content.
- justtryme90
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That is true. I look at #Informationwar and #FreeWrite
Updates should be in the sidebar like you said. But featured posts can be pinned to the top of the newsfeed. The top 100 witnesses should vote on which posts are featured. There should be a limited amount of slots for featured posts each day.
@steemitblog i bought steem coin at 2$ now price is only 30 cent please invest your revenue coming from adsense into steem and pump it otherwise i will be ruined
They are pumping it to everyone right now! Straight up the wazoo!
Here is a song about the people who run this shit show. LOL
You have received a negative vote.
Hm yes, thank you for proving that payout and curation (visibility) are completely unrelated as all frontends are controlled in a centralized manner.
Now eliminate curation from the consensus layer and put it on an optional sliding scale to be determined by the content creator.
This.
Thanks for providing a post so we can discuss this topic! :-)
I am all for this featured posts functionality in case of the wallet change and any other future 'big changes' on Steemit.com. I'm also happy to see you learned from that experience and are making sure that doesn't ever happen again. The way it works now (post on top, x to click it away once read) works fine, so I'm glad you've implemented that.
Other than that I would suggest to be careful or just not use it on other posts. Always keep in mind who Steemit.com's users are (and if you don't know, try some market research amongst your users): they often have fled from (content) manipulation and centralization. Having one or two people at Steemit, Inc decide which posts 'we have to/should see' is just more centralization on a platform that is filled with people that don't like that.
Selecting posts yourself is in my view a no-go, but having people pay for that very very special spot is maybe even worse. We now have: ads/banners, trending, hot, promoted, all places for promoted or 'not so much promoted' content. All these 4 spots still have their own challenges. Clean these up/remove/perfect these first before adding a fifth place with 'special' content would be my sincere suggestion :-)
(PS: The best way to get people to see content is if their favorite Steemians/influencers resteem a post. Making sure a resteem works like a retweet, with a personal comment from the Steemian that resteems would be my preferred functionality to add to Steemit.com in order to get more 'viral content' - people want to know why a person resteems a post so they can decide to open a post from an otherwise random author.)
Last thing I want to mention: the more this pinned feature is used, the less it will catch a person's eye. People easily get 'blind' for these sort of features, and if they had to click away uninteresting (to them) or paid posts a few times in the past few days, they will be less likely to see the actually important featured post where you announced a very important update on steemit.com - Yes, indeed, like the wallet change, the whole reason you as I understand it implemented the featured post.
Just my sincere input.
TLDR: Good job, but the less this feature is used, the more effective it will be.
Very well said! I second all the points you mentioned. Great & important input imo.
KA-CHING
the main point
That is why the top 100 witnesses should vote on which posts are featured in the limited amount featured slots that rotate every day or week or whatever. We all know that all the Steem users can vote on their favorite witnesses. The top 100 witnesses can then be rewarded with the responsibility of voting on featured posts. They decide. They vote. The top picks are then featured. And important updates should be kept on the sidebar.
@steemitblog,
Two Highlighted Errors so far!
Under post, the advertisement align should be centered to the post! Seems it got a CSS error!
When we try to create a new post, sometimes the Title Bar is hidden!
Cheers~
You need to finish fixing the WALLET @steemitblog I still cannot 'reveal' my keys even when I type in my master key it does not reveal the keys in the permission area. Not happy with this update at all.
The 'Featured Posts' implementation here on Steemit, is perhaps a helpful addition and being unobtrusive in nature, I don't mind it at all; as a matter of fact, I welcome it.
I tried busy.org, and steeve.app also and no go on posting a post. Any Idea why. Missing Posting Authority Issues again. I have seen other new post. I even shut down restarted, logged off, resigned on, and still no ability to make a post yet I can comment something is wrong. Is my post to long it is over 4000 words long and has one picture? What is the issue?
I was going to tell you to check https://Steemd.com because Steemd could tell you how many resource credits (RC) you have. Sometimes, if I don't have enough RC for about ten comments, then I can't comment or post something that is too long or longer. In other words, longer posts and comments cost more RC.
But I looked at your RC on Steemd and it says you have enough RC for 100 comments. So, I'm guessing that is not the problem. Maybe somebody else knows what is wrong. I don't think it is a posting key problem. If you log in with your private posting key, then you should be able to comment and post.
Yes, there is a limit to posts. I save my posts in text files just as a backup. If a file is larger than about 48 kilobytes (kb) or around 8,000 words, then I get an error. I'm guessing that is too big. So, then I make it smaller. Then it lets me post it.
https://steemd.com/@bashadow
It is around 4,000 words now. They need to fix the error message, just say, your post is to damn big trim it down.
Are the blocks smaller? I think that the posts are saved in blocks like Bitcoin but maybe different. Yeah, they should make the error message say things like that. We got to make the error messages as simple as possible before millions of more people join Steemit, which they will be doing.
It's mostly spam, and basically advertising. If it's not something I MUST know as a Steemit user, don't force it on me. Not impressed.
Even muting the offending accounts doesn't get rid of it?
I resent having to 'x' these, essentially popups, all the time.
If I was actually being paid to use Steemit, sure, maybe you could advertise to me and waste my time. But Steemit isn't free, we all must buy in and keep our money locked into the blockchain, before we can make our first post, comment, or vote. Nothing happens on Steemit for free, especially after HardFork20.
So come on, leave us paying customers alone. Spam to somebody else. You're just driving more users away. It's like adding an additional tax on a people. It slows things down, makes people upset, and ultimately ends up harming the economy.
Come on, get rid of the spam. Set a good precedent for the rest of the users. Quality matters.
I did not buy into Steem. Did you? I did not put any money into Steemit at all. I registered for free and got an account in 2017.
Does it cost anything to post, comment, or vote on Steemit.com?
I'd love to see somebody start off with nothing (0.00 SP) and try to interact with the Steem blockchain (either through Steemit.com or elsewhere). Let me know if you can do it. Let me know if anyone can do it.
@drutter, I did not pay. Maybe other people paid for me. But my point is that I did not pay any money from me, directly from my pocket. I made that point to anybody who might say that each person must pay to Steem personally and directly with only their money from their pocket, cash, directly, without the help of other people. My point is clearly that I signed up, I registered for Steemit and then I was on and I was commenting and posting. Maybe somebody bought me some SP. I don't know. But my only point is that I did not. I really thought you were saying that I did not or could not do that but I did do that. I joined for free from my perspective. It was free for me. I did not pay. Of course, nothing is free. But I did not pay. It was free for me.
Things have CHANGED since 2017. You got in early enough. Those coming in NOW are under a whole new rule-set. Resource credits changed everything, so you can't compare yourself with new users. Go start a new account now and see how much you can do on here without some help.
@happyme, yes, resource credits can be tough to gather at first, the smaller you are. It is like a snowball effect. So, it depends on how much RC one might start with. Compared to whales, even after two years, my account is still pretty small.
New users, now, have to be very patient at first.
Exactly. And who has patience these days? And for what? To earn dust votes that get burned because they are too small to register? Why would anyone want to get on board a sinking ship?
I'm not saying that Steem is actually sinking, but to outsiders looking in I would think it surely looks that way. Bitcoin has doubled in value and Steem is still going down despite most other crypto's following bitcoin. Heck, some insiders might even be convinced that Steem is sinking.
I think it is extremely important at this point in time that Steem presents a good face to the general public. The sad part is that it still seems like Steemit is driven by techno-geeks rather than people who study human nature and know how to design appealing user interfaces and reward systems.
I am sure the folks at D-live would have just loved this feature. Con the team into thinking they are doing something for steem, then con the people, and then cut and run.
So the next group that has an idea real or fake gets to pay to promote to each and every steemit user and then maybe get a vote from them because they think that steemit supports the poster, and they very well may support them, just like they initially supported D-live. Steemit Vetting has worked so well in the past.
Vetting should occur through the top 100 witnesses voting on which content, posts, are featured.
There appears to be a problem Houston:
edit: as you can see I can comment, but not post. Why?
I bet it has something to do with the log-in key you are using.
There has been an attempt to stop people from using keys of higher authority than is required to do the job.
Perhaps you are using too high a key? I log in with my private posting key for normal use. I only use my active key to access my wallet (and now I do that by using keychain via steemworld.org).
Good luck @bashadow!
I did eventually figure it out. It was to long of a post for my RC's to Handle. It seems that I am only allowed 4000 words and no pictures with my current RC's. So I did away with the picture and most of the story setup words and just posted the text.
WOW!!!!
I find it hard to believe that someone with a reputation of 61 could be low on RC. I understand the reasoning behind implementing the RC system, but I don't think it is doing any good. It might be best to simply abolish that idea. I'm sure all the new users would be thrilled to see it gone.
Yeah, I have almost 1500SP, I have seen some post that are able to do 8000+ words and pictures, (but they have a lot more SP than me), this just happened to be one of the biggest post I tried, a fiction story. So hopefully as my SP continues to grow I can post longer content when the mood hits. I did not until that post even think there was a limit on words associated with the RC's, and it could have just been a continuing glitch that day, but once I was under 4000 words it let me post, so not overly sure if that was the reason or not.
It simply is not easy to get a simple answer from anyone that has anything to do with the software behind steem. We have a ton of witnesses, a lot of developers, and no one that is able to give a straight answer to peoples questions.
They just say submit it through steem.chat or discord or through git hub. That is a very good support system. So I used steemitblog's most current post at the time to maybe get some answers as to why, as you can see the dev's are to busy to answer, and steemit inc is to busy to answer.
I still use steemit, I know a lot of people have left steemit for the other front ends, but since I do not see the ads I still use steemit, it is what I have gotten used to. Steemit as a front end is shooting themselves in the foot, and I think they are getting close to their knees to where they really won't be able to walk, and I hate to think of where they may shoot themselves after they take their knees out.
They do seem to be their own worst enemy, don't they? I too got used to Steemit and still use it for the most part. When steemWorld gets its editor going, that might change because I do trust it will be a superior editor. Funny how one guy can do so much, yet the entire steemit team keeps making things worse rather than better.
Awesome work Steemit! I am so grateful for what you do and appreciate the new features being implemented. But, i could not figure out why the one post featured yesterday about something completely foreign to me was featured. It threw me off tbh. I felt like i was being asked for help or to contribute but i was completely confused as to how/ why i could do anything useful.
Good job on communication to new features to the community these last few months, much appreciated. I'm happy to see the blockchain moving forward and new features being implemented.
About the feature post function, I'm fine with @steemitblog posts about community changes being pinned as an easy way to make sure all users that are interested in updates can clearly see them promptly but I'm not sure I agree with other featured posts. To me it's just more bias towards special interest/user that is being promoted, most larger users already don't pay much attention to lower users unless it's their buddy, Isn't that what the trending page is for? Isn't that enough for them already? Don't get me wrong, ppl do what they want with their stake and that's fine, that's what decentralisation is about, I just don't want it on my feed. Frankly I hardly visit that part of the site because it's always the same promoted "featured"content/users, please don't turn my feed into another replica of the shill trending page and keep that for the content I do follow.
If we could pin posts in our own individual page and those of community projects would be a nice implemented feature to pin certain things we might see as important, like projects mission, contest rules, an introduction of individual users etc instead of going thru 2 years of post to get an explanation on a project or user but on their own page. (I'm having a hard time to express this thought clearly, don't mind if it came out messed up)
I would really like to being able to say a few words on re-steemed posts being implemented, it would be a great addition to personalizing the platform a little as mentioned in a previous comment.
WTF have snax to do with steemit updates?
Good Feature! The only issue would be who decides to be “featured”, some favoritism may apply. 😀
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lol...it already does. It always has. It always will.
I would bet that an overwhelming majority of featured posts will be Steem- or crypto-centric crap that most social media users couldn’t care less about, including most Steem users.
And I say this knowing the 3-year+ track record of STINC and the people/projects (as well as the type of people/projects) that they support. Just expect to be unimpressed and likely irritated by this “new feature” that probably should have existed three years ago. But for over 2.5 years, Steemit.com was only supposed to be (according to STINC) “just good enough.”
I wonder what has suddenly changed their mind this year.
Impending poverty and homelessness?
Maybe the shame of being outed as inveterate failures?
Oh wait, maybe now they want to listen to the community,....
Rofl.
An auction system to get on the featured position might open up Steemit to advertiser $$$ from outside the ecosystem.
I'm sure some correspondence to the steemit team via email would personally shed a light on how Steemit will feature posts. After all, it is steemit.inc's responsibility to utilize steemit.com as best as they can. It would be interesting to see how different Steem platform will feature different types of content as the free market of user preference plays out.
It is forced content. Forced content is bad most of the time.
Is there any way to stop the featured posts from coming back after I clicked the x? I'm getting real tired of having to remove posts I didn't want to see in the first place multiple times a day.
I'm sure this has to do with my privacy settings on my browser but why should I have to change them just to stop seeing shit I didn't want to see anyways?
If you have your browser set to remove absolutely any stored settings it's certainly a challenge for us to store settings for you. I understand your privacy concerns, but this is a bit of a difficulty to work around unless we start storing user preferences in a centralized database (instead of locally with your browser).
Is there any way to opt out of these featured posts? Does muting them work? Honestly I'd just like to have posts I want to see in my newsfeed instead of what someone else decides I should see. The sidebar works well enough to see any important things I have missed.
If I wanted to see suggested posts I'd go back to using facebook, one of the benefits of steemit was that I only had to see the content that I chose to see.
Actually, I have read the article and comments, but the truth is, I was only interested theoretically, since I have not seen this 'featured' stuff anywhere.
Have I been spared because I use an ad and popup blocker with my browser, plus I entered Permissions and limited those also. I don't know what I did to spare myself these changes, I'm just grateful I am using them amd I hope they continue to spare me the agro.
Can you explain how it is coming back? Do you have multiple accounts? Once I close it, it is gone, but I would like to understand what you are experiencing.
I only have one account. I think Ocrdu has it right, I have my browser set for privacy which means it doesn't remember history and probably gets rid of the cookies regularly. I get the featured posts back just about every time I close the window and reopen/log back into steemit.
Okay, thank you for the feedback. Mine is set for moderate, so that is likely the difference.
I have the same. Probably has to do with the browser used and how aggressively it purges cookies and settings after closing. I get the featured posts back after every log in.
Also, the featured posts ignore my mute list.
What browser are you using? I will try to recreate it so I can provide feedback as that does sound very annoying. :)
Meh. Not all that big a deal. I do wish my mute list would work on the featured posts, though.
But if you're interested: I use Firefox in private browsing mode with all the privacy settings, bells, and whistles switched on, all cookies etc. purged on exit, and all that. I don't see any advertisements, but I don't miss those.
Sounds like 'private browsing mode' is to blame. No cookies are accepted, and I assume Steemit is using cookies to remember when users have clicked the 'x' to stop seeing an advertisement. Because you're being ultra paranoid with your settings, you have to either try to ignore the ads, or keep clicking the x.
I wouldn't say it is ultra paranoid, I'd imagine its a pretty common setting. My settings don't interfere with any of the sites I regularly visit.
I think the better solution would be to stop forcing posts like Snax into my feed when I didn't ask for it and don't care about it at all.
Cool. well it does seem likely those would be common security settings in crypto.
Not that anyone cares, but I like to consider who is using the site and what they are likely to experience. :) lol.
I use firefox as well pretty much set up the same way
When I say "Meh. Not all that big a deal" I do of course mean: "This is terrible, stupid, and offending, and it shows the incompetence and arrogance of the developers. It greatly sucks, and I will rage quit soon."
Can I finally have a drama token now?
Same here, see comment under whatsup's comment.
So many adds popping up with no X to close them. @steemitblogs is there a way to stop all these advertisments from showing up in my comments section, or a way to at least close them!?!? thanks!😤😠
I can't know if I speak for others, but I DO NOT LOOK AT THE FEATURED POSTS. Please continue to use the side-bar for important messages.
I tend to agree with those who say that Steemit Inc. should NOT be manipulating what shows up in the featured posts page. It is already flooded with much of the same stuff I don't care to see. The side bar is the BEST place for posting important information that needs a place OF ITS OWN and NOT be mingled in with other stuff.
Steem has such great potential; please don't tank it with your "improvements". It's bad enough I need to be annoyed by having to scroll up each time I need to access the menu in the disappearing header.
Noooooo!!!! Big mistake, Hudge. Think big, think about millions, not hundreds. Make a dedicated space only for relevant stuff (*if you really think you need that option)
I agree with what @soyrosa said:
(PS: The best way to get people to see content is if their favorite Steemians/influencers resteem a post. Making sure a resteem works like a retweet, with a personal comment from the Steemian that resteems would be my preferred functionality to add to Steemit.com in order to get more 'viral content' - people want to know why a person resteems a post so they can decide to open a post from an otherwise random author.)
I am so small a user, even though I've been here for nearly 2 yrs, I only make a few pennies a day.
When I go to my feed (which is rare because) all I see is resteem after resteem right down the wall, people I know and like resteeming stuff, but WHY? I don't have time to open each one of those things, and the TITLE'S are often obscure from the content.
If I resteem something, let me say WHY I thought it worthy of resteeming.
I totally agree.
Until I have an option in settings to switch this feature to off or on it's fine. Otherwise, I strongly disagree with this.
And only pin changes and announcements from steemit inc.
A lot of innovation for steem! and then why is the price still falling? I do not understand absolutely nothing
The price of Steem is partly determined by the price of other cryptocurrencies which are influenced mostly by the dollar and other centralized fiat currencies. World banks regulate the dollar a lot. So, they have been trying to destroy the American economy, especially in 2018. That impacts the crypto world to some extent. The good news is that cryptocurrencies can break away from that tyranny of Rothschild, Soros, etc. But for the next few years, we still have to battle through a fight with globalism, technocracy, etc.
I understand perfectly what you say, but why do the btc keep going up and the steem is not! and when the btc decreases the steem also lowers in price and remains stagnant, in previous years that did not happen, everyone followed the btc according to the movement that it presented @joeyarnoldvn
It seems that Bitcoin is not as diverse as Steem is. Also, Steem might be following Bitcoin. Maybe some months behind. But again, Bitcoin is more simple and bigger. Simple because Bitcoin is just used like money. Steem is a cryptocurrency as well but is also a blockchain social network that is supporting different platforms, apps, like Steemit.com, Busy.org, Dtube, and others. So, it might be rather complex and Steem is not Bitcoin like I said.
Specifically, I don't know what is happening but I hope that Steem rises someday. But we may have to wait ten years. But it can rise but maybe not now. Maybe there are some things I don't know about. But I am guessing that Steem is a little slow, maybe by a few years behind Bitcoin.
Exactly what I try to say! we do not have a logical explanation of why the steem has been falling in price while the btc is going up !.
Different applications have been created in blockchain, each day we advance more and steem is more consolidated, but nevertheless its price is undervalued.
With this bear market the steem is so that currently has a value of 1 to 1.5 $ because it is the price I had in 2017 when the btc is around $ 6,000, so what happens? .. we do not know, this is inexplicable.
As I just told you, the steem is very undervalued. Before it was simply steemit and nothing more, today with so many advances is so that at least it has an approximate value at 2 $ and that is far away. @joeyarnoldvn
Steemit will continue to be undervalued until enough people join it and integrate the Steem currency in the free market more, in everyday life, which may be before 2025.
That is why it is so important to make on-boarding worthwhile rather than annoying.
I'm still having this problem/error since April 25, 2019 on creating post.
I had that error, go to your settings and change the payout to 50/50 instead of 100% powerup and it seems to go away. There isn't a save, just change it and then leave the page. It worked for me
It would save time to use 100% power up.
And there's also a profit when using it when you use bidbots to buy upvotes.
When you use 50/50 on rewards you will loss money in buying upvotes on bidbots. I already tried and computed the calculation. Its more profitable to use 100% power up rewatds.
Yes, it is better to use 100%, but there was a system setting bug that needs a reset for it to work right is my understanding.
I already use eSteemApp and it works.
Steemit don't work.
somthing do that because steem price decreasing you have to maintain steem price at least 1 dollar why you not preparing for smt btc growing but steem still going down don't forget if price ever decreasing then steem going die.
keep goin👍
nice to see the steemit lives, i believe in steemit because i think that promote many images creativity.
Would be cool if the featured/pinned posts wouldn't just be to announce things that are going to happen, and to do last minute polls for features already implemented, but also for crowdsourcing expertise.
The steemitwallet.com example, I think, is a great example of a missed opportunity to crowdsource infosec expertise for example. The idea of the split is great from a least authority perspective, the choice though to have a new domain for the wallet instead of for the posting-key only site goes against first principles of trust. Something that I feel would have been cought by an infosec expertise crowd-sourcing post earlier in the process.
I imagine this same principle to be sensible for other subjects as well. Avoid "I could have told you that wouldn't work" type of responses to actions and announcements by making "please tell us if you feel there are any problems with this" posts that are marked as "featured".
An other thing. Regarding advertisement. I think both STEEM and Steemit are missing out on a major enabler for the platform by not facilitating a STEEM based advertisements economy. The platform's value in the end is derived from the content. The best way for the platform to improve and grow is pulling in top content provider, get them to move from their current blogging or vlogging platform to the STEEM platform. Problem though, if they move to STEEM, whey will pretty much lose out on their advertising revenues while trying to establish a completely new revenue generating audience on STEEM. Not much of an incentive for them to make them move. There should, I feel, be an option for STEEM users to opt in to advertising on their posts. Such an option could draw in some of the bigger top content providers and as such improve the value of the platform. Same for the other side of the coin. The promoted tab is pretty much dead, as nobody ever looks there anyway. If I have 500 STEEM and want to run an add campaign, lets say for my novel, currently I'll need to take my STEEM, trade it for fiat currency, do to Amazon, FB, Twitter, whatever, and spent my STEEM there, while instead, if there were any top scifi book bloggers on the platform, I'dd much rather spent my STEEM right here and have my ads show up on the top blogger's page, than I would take my money out of the platform to run my ads on some platform I don't really support. Create the economy, and the platform will florifh IMHO. Don't cramp out on having ads fund Steemit Inc, when an adds economy could lift up the whole platform, and the value of Steemit Inc's STEEM assets with it.
Hope I'm making sense.
On pinned posts for communities, I think its a great idea. Every community will always have what to let their members have at their tip. Thanks for coming up with this @Steemitblog
Great! Keep it up. These changes should have done a long ago... But it's never too late..hoping for a great future! Steem on!
Better many years late than never! edit: funny thing is that these days there's now nobody here to read things anyway, so its basically just getting ready for the next gen of Steemians.. The rush before MEOS and things get happening lol
Great, it's always good to be informed and up to date with everything that happens in this wonderful chain of blocks. I will take this reference publication to inform our community in Spanish. Thanks for informing.
Good vibes.
I like the featured post feature 👍
It's important to get the info out there. Just as long as it's relevant to the chain and not spammy.
Feature PAYING for Future ?
Any Another Improvements ?
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well done
now you are moving in the right direction
How long do you want the post to stay featured?
Whose post will mostly be featured, the moderator or the quality content creator?
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Advertising to boost steems liquidity and volume would be great, only if paid in steem or SBD. If steem raises in price I think we will get more quality content providers
This feature add value to the platform. We will have more interaction on steemit. In addition, we hope large adoption from social network.
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Thanks for considering my suggestion about pinned posts. I hope to see that soon in steemit !
Congratulations @steemitblog!
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There are many Venezuelans in steemit because of the crisis that crosses the country .. but I have always said that steemit should have at least 10 million users .. we need to have a larger advertising scheme. well for this initiative
I agree.
I think it is a good idea. Also some type of notification in our top menu that is ONLY steem updates would be helpful as well.
What if we pressed the X by mistake and wanted to view the post again :) Maybe a featured post history tab would be nice and ensures that those posts get longer term visibility and means you can show a history to prospective advertisers and charge more because their post will have longer exposure to anyone who decides to browse the history. Aslo if people have been away for a bit and want to catch up on featured posts that history would be good for that.
Could even just archive them in the Promoted tab, cause they are kinda promoted anyway.
Much appreciated for all your hard work.