I would expect content on Steem to be more beneficial to humanity than what you can see trending on the outdated attention whore advertisement industry. Most content monetization scheme are still about bating you by appealing to your most basic instinct and switching to deceptive mind controlling ads.
I hope Steem will find it's niche and won't be drowned with users and stake holder that think success is measured mainly by number of users, posts and comments. More total views would certainly help STEEM valuation but not at any cost, viewer's attention are not all worth the same.
Explanation for high upvote : https://steemit.com/steem/@transisto/temporarily-pausing-my-anti-abuse-efforts-while-sbd-is-off-the-chart
Sounding like god over the fucking internet.
More 'beneficial to humanity'... give me a break! God - yup. Praise be to this man.
greenman you are right bro..........///////
This is a very valid point...the question is what viewers attention is worthwhile? Is it the hard core liberals and conservatives (ideologues) who we find in the political section? Is it the mainstream news people? Or is it the people who spend 15 hours a day on Facebook doing whatever it is they do on Facebook?
I started writing, when I joined, about technology/futurism stuff....very little interest. Even now, I write about steem and the potential here...still, relatively speaking, not a lot of interest. I feel the commenting on this site is severely lacking...most of what I see is the "great post" garbage so I see where you are coming from with the upvoting meme and the tnx crap. That isnt dialogue and that is what I think is missing.
I guess there is a balance that needs to be navigated....growth is necessary but not without solid footing in terms of quality content. One way to become my space is to be a site with dopey content because then the next site that is a bit dopier ends up pilfering the masses.